President Muhammadu Buhari has presided over the federal executive council meeting for the first time in seven weeks. President Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and SGF Engr Babachir David Lawal during the Federal Executive Council Meeting at the Council Chamber in Abuja. President Buhari (L) at the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting on Wednesday – […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari met with Senate President Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house of representatives, on Tuesday. The lawmakers arrived at the presidential villa in Abuja, at 12pm. The leaders of the National Assembly met with the president behind close doors for 40 minutes. Mr. Saraki told State House correspondents that they […]
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The senate has scheduled a confirmation hearing for Ibrahim Magu, acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Senate President Bukola Saraki announced this on Tuesday, that the hearing will hold on Wednesday. This is coming a few weeks after President Muhammadu Buhari asked the senate to reconsider its decision to reject the […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has formally resumed work and has formally sent a letter to the National Assembly to the effect. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the President, who returned to the country on Friday after a successful medical vacation in London, entered his office at around 11.15 a.m. Malam Garba Shehu, the […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari will on Monday transmit a letter to the National Assembly indicating his resumption of work after his medical vacation in London, Mr Femi Adesina, the media adviser said on his Twitter handle. He said that the letter would formalise the president’s return. He said: “PMB (President Muhammadu Buhari) will on Monday transmit letter […]
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President Buhari’s jet landed at the VIP Wing of 401 Training School of Nigeria Air Force , Kaduna, at 7.40 a.m on Friday. He was received by the Deputy Governor of Kaduna State, Mr Barnabas Bantex, and later flown to Abuja in a presidential helicopter. The Presidency had confirmed on Thursday that the president would […]
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Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari is set to return to Nigeria on Friday, Femi Adesina, spokesman of the president, confirmed this in a brief statement on Thursday. Adesina said Buhari expressed appreciation to all those who have been “praying fervently for him” since January 19 when he went on a medical vacation in the UK. “President […]
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Vacationing Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday hosted Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, at the Abuja House in London. “Very pleased to welcome my friend the Most Revd and Rt Hon Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, to Abuja House this afternoon,” Buhari said via Facebook. Welby defended Buhari when former UK Prime Minister David Cameron described […]
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Governor Ayodele Fayose, of Ekiti state, says he had enacts law which proposes life imprisonment for raping an Ekiti woman. Speaking on Wednesday at the Oluyemi Kayode Stadium at the celebration of the International women’s day, Fayose fired shots at Buhari by saying that he does not want women to be confined to the kitchen and the […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday, via telephone from London, congratulated former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on the occasion of his 80th birthday. On the same day, he also spoke with Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state and thanked him for all his support. Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President confirmed […]
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