Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi state, has described as "nonsense", the alleged plot of Senate President Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house of representatives, to frustrate President Muhammadu Buhari.The executive and legislature are not having a smooth relationship at the moment, with some of the president's supporters accusing the leadership of the national assembly of refusing to [...]
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AbdulRasheed Maina, former chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, says he is ready to reveal top secrets to President Muhammadu Buhari.In an interview with Channels Television, Maina said many of those around the president were insincere.He said while attempts have been made on his life, he is not afraid of anyone.Maina also declared interest in appearing before [...]
Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, says President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has fulfilled its campaign promises to Nigerians.Mohammed made the pronouncement at the presentation of the National Social Investment Programmes (N-SIP), report card event to mark the 2nd anniversary of Buhari’s administration in Abuja.The theme of the report card presentation was 'Showcasing the Achievements of National Social Investment Programmes: [...]
The senate on Tuesday commenced the process for the confirmation of the appointment of 27 resident electoral commissioners (RECs).The upper legislative chamber had delayed the exercise in protest of President Muhammadu Buhari's refusal to sack Ibrahim Magu as chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).The senate rejected the nomination of Magu as EFCC chairman twice.In March, the president [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari presented the 2016 budget to a joint session of the national assembly on Tuesday, maintaining that the oil benchmark would be at $38 per oil barrel, against the OPEC rate of $30.74 per barrel.The N6.08 trillion budget has a deficit of N2.22 trillion, and the exchange rate was pegged at N190.The capital expenditure rose from N557 billion to N1.8 [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari says some of the persons recruited by Muammar Gaddaffi, former Libyan leader, are making the elimination of the Boko Haram group difficult.Speaking on Friday at a banquet which Queen Elizabeth II of England hosted for heads of state and government participating in the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGOM) in Malta, Buhari said the task of the [...]
Femi Adesina, special adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on media and publicity, says the president never promised to make his assets public.Adesina said the issue of assets publishing cannot be credited to Buhari but the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).He said Buhari has declared his assets in compliance with the law and may decide to make them public when verification is [...]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the results of eight states and the FCT in the 2015 presidential elections.So far, Muhammadu Buhari, candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), has gathered 2,302,978 while Goodluck Jonathan, incumbent and candidate of the Peoples Democraitic Party (PDP) has 2,322,734.At this stage four years ago, in the 2011 election, results from these [...]
A federal high court in Abuja has fixed February 9 for the hearing of the eligibility of Muhammadu Buhari, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, to contest the 2015 presidential election. The suit, tagged FHC/ABJ/CS/14/2015, requesting among other things, the disqualification of the 72-year-old aspirant for failure to attach necessary academic credentials to the nomination form that he submitted to INEC, [...]
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