Buba Galadima, a former ally of President Muhammadu Buhari, has challenged him to swear with the Qur'an that he did not rig the 2019 presidential election.Galadima, who spoke in an interview with The Sun, said Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the PDP, won the election but it was allegedly rigged by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National [...]
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President Muhammadu Buhari says he will not allow those he described as "merchants of evil and death" to overwhelm the country under his watch. In the Easter message issued on his behalf by Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, Buhari said his administration will continue to provide honest leadership and secure the lives and property of Nigerians.Buhari said he would not treat with triviality, the [...]
When he appeared on Channels Television on Sunday, Festus Keyamo, spokesman of the All Progressive Congress (APC) presidential campaign, said it's not compulsory to have the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) certificate to contest an elective position.Keyamo was reacting to the certificate scandal of Ademola Adeleke, governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun state.The senior lawyer's comment attracted different [...]
Festus Keyamo, spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign, says a presidential or governorship candidate does not need to have the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) certificate to contest an elective position.Keyamo was reacting to the certificate scandal of Ademola Adeleke, governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun state.Several politicians have been caught in certificate scandal. There [...]
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says President Muhammadu Buhari has kept to his words on developing the Niger Delta region.Osinbajo said this in a speech at the maiden matriculation of the Nigeria Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta state.He said the institution is a proof of the "unwavering commitment" of the Buhari administration to the development and progress of the region.The vice-president was represented [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari says the spike in activities of bandits and kidnappers across the country has made him one of the unhappiest leaders in the world.Several states, including Zamfara and Kaduna, have come under repeated attacks by suspected hoodlums.The attacks have left many dead and properties destroyed.On Saturday, some protesters marched to the presidential villa in Abuja over the persistent killings [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari and ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo met at Diamniadio, a city in Senegal, for the inauguration of President Macky Sall.This is the first time that Buhari and Obasanjo would be seen together publicly since the Nigerian president won his reelection bid in February.Obasanjo had kicked against Buhari's second term, endorsing Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who [...]
Vice-president Yemi Osinbajo says Nigerians will see significant improvement in two years if the government sticks to its plans.Osinbajo spoke on Monday at the University of Lagos where he delivered the convocation lecture ahead of the institution's 50th anniversary.According to the number two citizen, the focus of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration in the next four years will be to address [...]
Tanko Yakasai, elder statesman and political adviser in the second Republic, says the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) might field Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo or Bola Tinubu, a national leader of APC, in 2023.Speaking with The Interview, Yakasai said the region played a key role in the emergence of Buhari in 2019.On the possibility of the APC fielding a presidential candidate from [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari has launched the Micro Pension Plan (MPP) for workers in the informal sector.Buhari launched the scheme on Thursday in Abuja, where he personally registered Sagir Shawa, a tricycle (keke NAPEP) operator in Karu area of the federal capital territory (FCT).The MPP, an initiative of the National Pension Commission (PenCom), is aimed at providing pension services to self-employed [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari says the February 23 presidential poll is his fifth and last election and he wants "to leave something behind". Buhari spoke when he hosted the All Progressives Congress (APC) governors and senators-elect to dinner in the presidential villa on Monday.The president, who did not state what he would leave behind, told the lawmakers he could not do it [...]
The presidential technical advisory committee led by Bismarck Rewane, the CEO of Financial Derivatives, has submitted its report to President Muhammadu Buhari.According to the president, the report was submitted on Monday, with ways in which the federal government can generate revenue to pay the new minimum wage."On Jan 9, 2019, I inaugurated the Presidential Technical Advisory Committee on the Implementation [...]
Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda, says Nigeria is sorting things out to get on the continental free trade area agreement, already signed by a majority of countries in Africa.Speaking at the Africa CEO forum on Monday, Kagame was asked if the "Nigeria problem" will not affect the conclusion and take off of the Africa free trade agreement.In March 2018, 44 countries [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari says it is difficult to regulate what comes out on digital platforms.Buhari spoke when the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) led by Chris Isiguzo, its president, paid him a visit at the presidential villa on Thursday.The president sought the cooperation of the journalists while urging them to do their bit by combatting fake news and reporting the [...]
Civil society organisations, education stakeholders and concerned citizens are calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to give priority to education in his second term in office.The stakeholders, in a joint statement, also expressed concern over the number of out of school children in the country, laying emphasis on the girl-child.According to the statement, the groups collected over 2,500 signatories in a [...]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to stop "gloating" as Atiku Abubakar, its candidate in the presidential election, will soon reclaim his "stolen mandate" at the tribunal.The party was reacting to Buhari's statement that the PDP still had questions to answer on how it spent the huge resources that accrued to the country from oil sales [...]
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