The main opposition party in Nigeria, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the claim of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that petrol subsidy gulps N774 million every day, is a fabricated story “to cover huge fraud in the presidency”. In a statement on Monday, the PDP said the figures given by the NNPC is […]
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The meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) will not hold on Wednesday, February 28, according to a statement by media and publicity adviser, Femi Adesina. He said the meeting was shelved because of the participation of President Muhammadu Buhari and a significant number of ministers at the High-Level Meeting of the International Conference on […]
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The Presidency on Saturday confirmed the death of two members of President Muhammadu Buhari’s extended family in Daura, Katsina state. A statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja, said the two senior members of the family died within a few hours of one […]
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The presidency has not responded to a letter written to President Muhammadu Buhari by former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s, wherein the latter urged the former not to seek re-election in 2019. Obasanjo said instead of re-contesting, Buhari should rather contribute on the sideline nationally and internationally. When reached for comments on the statement, Garba Shehu, Senior […]
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Former Governor of Lagos State and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has released a statement to clarify the meeting he and former Osun State Governor, Bisi Akande held with President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday. The three men had met behind closed-doors hours after former President Olusegun Obasanjo released a statement critical […]
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By Reuben Abati Mrs Aisha M. Buhari, the wife of President Muhammadu Buhari is probably the most loved person in Nigeria today, especially by critics of her husband’s administration. She first came to our notice in this regard when in the course of her ailing husband’s medical vacation in London, she famously declared through BBC […]
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A video documentary, titled: ‘The Human Side of President Buhari’ which would depict the septuagenarian in a way never seen before will make its debut on Sunday. The media and publicity department of the state house put together the 55-minute documentary and said: “It is made up of interviews from close aides of the President […]
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Saif Gaddafi, the second son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi will announce in coming days his intention to run for president of Libya, the family’s spokesman, Basem Hashimi Soul, told Sputnik Monday. On Wednesday, the Libyan Government of National Accord’s (GNA) foreign minister, Mohamed Siala, said that presidential election in Libya might be held […]
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The Presidency has countered Atiku Abubakar, describing the claim that Muhammadu Buhari was not able to enter the United States of America as false. Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari who responded to the claim in a statement described the claim by Atiku as “fictive concoction.” “This fictive concoction being passed off as […]
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Former President of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has said he will not rest until the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) returns to presidency in 2019. He maintained that he takes responsibility for the defeat of the PDP in the 2015 general elections. The former Nigerian leaders said this when he received Bode George, a chairmanship aspirant […]
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