My Dear Compatriots, NIGERIA’S DECADE Today marks a new decade. It is a time of hope, optimism and fresh possibilities. We look forward as a nation to the 2020s as the opportunity to build on the foundations we have laid together on security, diversification of our economy and taking on the curse of corruption. These […]
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PDP Presidential candidate in the last presidential election and Former Vice-President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar says he cannot sit and watch the government of President Muhammadu Buhari “ruin the future of Nigerians” with his $29.6 billion loan request. Recall that Buhari had asked the senate to approve the loan, saying oil earnings are no […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Prime Minister Boris Johnson on his election victory in the United Kingdom general election. The President, in a congratulatory message by one of his spokespersons, Malam Garba Shehu, noted that “Britain has been a reliable and historically unique ally of Nigeria’’. He said Buhari observed that Britain had particularly supported […]
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NIGERIA – President Muhammadu Buhari has cut short his private visit to the United Kingdom, as he returned a day earlier than he was scheduled to. The Presidential Jet touched down at about 9.45pm. Speaking to reporters at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International airport Abuja, President Buhari says he intends to work […]
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Erstwhile media aide to Atiku Abubakar, the PDP Presidential candidate and former National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP), Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze has hailed the affirmation of the electoral victory of President Mohammadu Buhari by the Supreme Court. In a unanimous judgment delivered on Tuesday, October 29, 2019, the apex […]
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Witness transcripts in the impeachment probe into Donald Trump were made public for the first time on Monday, with the former US ambassador to Kiev telling investigators she felt threatened by the president in his call to Ukraine’s leader. Democrats are entering an open phase of a congressional probe into potential abuse of power by […]
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Former Ivory Coast rebel leader Guillaume Soro, also an ex-president of the country’s parliament, said Friday he will run in the 2020 presidential poll. Next year’s election is a key challenge for the West African country after its disputed 2010-2011 ballot ended in violence between rival supporters that left 3,000 people dead. Soro headed rebels […]
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The Presidency says President Muhammadu Buhari is set to present the 2020 Appropriation Bill to a joint session of the National Assembly (NASS) on Tuesday. Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, confirmed this development at the end of an extraordinary meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC). The […]
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The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, on Saturday published an article on President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to South Africa. Mr Shehu’s article entitled ‘Key Takeaways From President Buhari’s Visit To South Africa’ comes one day after the President returned to Nigeria on Friday after his three-day trip. In […]
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The governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, says any of his aides that insults President Muhammadu Buhari or any governor will be sacked. David Nweze, special assistant to the governor on new media, quoted Umahi as saying this in a statement on Thursday. The governor said castigating the president and any governor does not add […]
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