One man can induce rippling change in a system. One man can stop illegal detention, arrests, and govern the impulse to clamp down on free speech and citizens’ rights. One man can rebuild relationships and cause harmony to exist among disparate peoples. That man is the president; If only he is willing.In Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed, the young, charismatic prime minister, [...]
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A video in circulation showing Aisha Buhari in distress purportedly for being locked up in an apartment at the presidential villa after she returned to the country on Thursday is fake.The first lady has not returned from the UK, TheCable can report.The video, though undated, is an old recording.A wild rumour of President Muhammadu Buhari taking a second wife has [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari says more steps should be taken to prevent sexual harassment.In a statement on Friday, Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, said Buhari is happy that the video documentary released by the BBC Africa Eye exposed some lecturers in the University of Lagos.After the documentary was released, the national assembly reintroduced the sexual harassment prohibition bill.Buhari said his administration will support [...]
A Twitter account impersonating Sadiya Umar Farouq, minister of humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development, has made comments on the wild rumour of a wedding to President Muhammadu Buhari.The fake Twitter handle, @Sadiya_Farouq_, with 462 followers at the time of this report, is different from the account of the minister, @Sadiya_Farouq, which has 18,900 followers.The counterfeit account though dispelled [...]
A video being circulated as the pre-wedding party of Sadiya Umar Farouq, minister of humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development, was recorded on September 14 when her family and friends held a party to celebrate her appointment. Farouq was commissioned as the head of the new ministry on August 21.She had tweeted about the event on September 15, according to [...]
Sadiya Umar Farouq, minister of humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development, is in Switzerland promoting a UN campaign against poverty as a wild rumour of a wedding to President Muhammadu Buhari ripples.In a tweet, the minister, supposedly getting married to Buhari on Friday, canvassed for active participation of citizens in ending poverty."On October 17, join us as we #WalkOutPoverty. The [...]
Ismaeel Ahmed, senior special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on social investment programmes (SIP), says over 40 million Nigerians have benefited from the SIP scheme.He said this on the sidelines of an event held during the 2019 United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).According to a statement, the event, which focused on the multi-dimensional approach to poverty alleviation, was hosted by the [...]
On Tuesday, President Muhammadu Buhari presented the 2020 appropriation bill of N10.33 trillion to the national assembly.The appropriation bill also comprises statutory transfers of N556.7 billion, non-debt recurrent expenditure of N4.88 trillion and N2.14 trillion of capital expenditure.We bring you key other highlights of the budget below:WORKS GETS LION SHARE, NIGER DELTA MINISTRY GETS LEASTThe ministry of works and housing [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari has presented the 2020 appropriation bill with total expenditure of N10.33 trillion to the national assembly.While presenting the budget on Tuesday, Buhari said the federal government is targetting a revenue of N8.155 trillion; N2.64 trillion from oil revenue, N1.8 trillion from non-oil tax revenue and N3.7 trillion from other revenues.Buhari said the appropriation bill is based on the [...]
Once you can afford to carry the unnecessary and preventable economic-burden that the current administration is daily putting on you, there is no point agitating for those who cannot handle it, because if you do, and you end up being incarcerated for it, those you are agitating for will become dumb. The only time the poor and jobless citizens of [...]
Tunde Bakare, senior pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly (LRA), says President Muhammadu Buhari must rise above partisanship and petty ethnic sentiments for the country to move forward.He said this while speaking with journalists after his state of the nation address in Lagos, on Sunday.The pastor said it was time for every section of the country to sit and discuss [...]
Here we go again. Nigeria is set for a crisis over the implementation, or the non-implementation, of the new minimum wage. The federal government, empowered by the constitution to set the national minimum wage, had approved N30,000 after consultations with state governors, who meet regularly under the aegis of the National Economic Council (NEC), followed by the enactment of a [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari says the “few Nigerians” giving the country “bad name” in South Africa must desist from such and be of good conduct.Buhari said this on Friday during his town-hall meeting with Nigerians living in South Africa.President Cyril Rampahosa of South Africa had invited his Nigerian counterpart to the country for some bilateral agreements.“Let me also call on all [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari will present the 2020 budget to the national assembly on Tuesday.The president said this via a letter addressed to the leadership of the assembly. The letter was read at both chambers during Thursday’s plenary.While addressing journalists, Adedayo Adeyeye, senate spokesman, said the president will arrive the national assembly at 2pm.“Next Tuesday by 2 p.m., the president will [...]
The supreme court has struck out the appeal of Hope Democratic Party (HDP) and Ambrose Owuru, its presidential candidate.HDP and its presidential candidate had appealed the decision of the presidential election petitions tribunal which threw out its petition and upheld the election of President Muhammadu Buhari.The five-man panel led by Mary Odili on Thursday struck it out on the grounds [...]
At least seven ministers will accompany President Muhammadu Buhari to South Africa on a visit which is at the instance of Cyril Ramaphosa, his South African counterpart.The ministers are Saleh Mamman (power), Rauf Aregbesola (interior), Olamilekan Adegbite (mines and steel development), Maigari Dingyadi (police affairs); and Mariam Katagum, minister of state, industry, trade and investment, Bashir Magashi (defence) and Geoffrey Onyeama [...]
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