President Muhammadu Buhari will on Tuesday begin a four-day trip to the United Kingdom on medical vacation, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu said. The presidential aide disclosed this in Abuja on Monday. “In the course of the technical stop-over for aircraft maintenance in London on his way back […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has finally touched down in Abuja, two days after he left the United States following an official visit to President Donald Trump. The president landed at 10:17 p.m. at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport from London. See some of the photographs as presented by @buharisallau:
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s “technical stopover” in the UK as a constitutional breach. Buhari left the US on Tuesday after meeting with President Donald Trump and some top businessmen. However, has has not been seen in Nigeria since then. Reacting to complaints over the president’s absence, Garba Shehu, senior […]
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The Presidency has disclosed that president Buhari who is currently in London, only made “technical stopover.” The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said this in a telephone interview on Thursday (today). Buhari, who travelled to the United States for a meeting with President Donald Trump, had left Washington, […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday returned to Nigeria after his over a week official trip to United Kingdom, where he attended Commonwealth Head of Government Meeting (CHOGM 2018). The president was received at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja by top government officials, including his Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari. During his visit, Buhari also […]
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More than 100,000 households in England could be living in bed and breakfast accommodation and hostels by 2020 due to a critical housing shortage, a study showed on Thursday. The report by charity group Crisis and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JFR) said current trends indicated the crisis would get worse as local councils battled to […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari will leave Abuja on Monday for an official visit to Britain, the presidency said in a statement Sunday evening by presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu. Mr Shehu said the president is due to “hold discussions on Nigeria – British relations with Prime Minister Theresa May, prior to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings […]
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The UK has no proof of Russia’s role in the ex-spy poisoning as evidenced by its reliance on allies for support, the Russian Embassy in Washington said. The British government rushed to blame Russia for the March 4 poisoning of former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter with what was identified as nerve […]
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Senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, wants names of Nigerians owning properties abroad to be made public rather than being disclosed only to the federal government. Dubai, the commercial city in UAE, the UK and the US are among the favourite destinations for corrupt Nigerian government officials to invest heavily in real estate. In August […]
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Britain vowed Thursday to act “without hesitation” if a state is found responsible for a nerve agent attack on Sergei Skripal, a former Russian double agent, as police said 21 people in total had received medical treatment following the incident. Skripal and his daughter Yulia remain unconscious in a critical but stable condition following the […]
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