President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurated his cabinet 84 days after taking the oath of office for a second term. The ministers were sworn in alongside the secretary to the government of the federation, at the presidential villa in Abuja. We bring you the interesting details from the new cabinet: BUHARI STILL IN CHARGE OF PETROLEUM SECTOR Buhari retained his position as the minister of petroleum resources, [...]
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Kano, Kaduna get the lion’s share, Amaechi, Fashola lose ministries — highlights of Buhari’s cabinet
Today is exactly 35 days since Buhari was inaugurated for a second term in office. It is also exactly 127 days (more than four months) since the President was presented a Certificate of Return by the Independent National Electoral Commission after being declared the winner of the presidential election conducted on February 23 2019. Since Buhari has spent over a [...]
An adage says ‘when big challenges are giving hard blows to a person, smaller ones will have a field day’. No matter what this present administration says, there is fire on the mountain. Like joke like play a big conflagration is already consuming our big edifice as we used to make jest. The earlier we agreed on this and map [...]
The Economist has predicted "more misery ahead" for Nigerians in President Muhammadu Buhari's second term. In a report on Thursday, the magazine said more Nigerians slipped into poverty during Buhari's first term while the country's economy "stuck like a stranded truck." The Economist said while the nation's economy has performed poorly, there is "little sign of the kind of export-led industrial revolution that [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday received his assets declaration form ahead of his second term. The Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) presented the forms to him and and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo at the presidential villa in Abuja. He urged the CCB to keep his form safe, saying he is sure that a lot of people who have "tested the bitter pill" of [...]
For Nigerian governors who have spent two terms in office, it's becoming fashionable to find a soothing nest in the senate. Since the constitution doesn't allow third term, the red chamber is for them the right place to wield influence and maintain political relevance. The senate is already seen as a retirement home for a litany of former governors, their ranks [...]
Taiwo Obasanjo, ex-wife of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, says God must foil the second term bid of President Muhammadu Buhari, the same way Obasanjo’s "third term plot" failed in 2005. In an interview with PUNCH, she opposed the re-election bid of Buhari, insisting that he must retire to Daura, his hometown in Katsina state. She said what Nigeria needs at the moment is a [...]
Femi Adesina, spokesman of President Muhammadu Buhari, says his principal's 2011 statement that he will only be president for one term is not applicable anymore. Speaking on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme on Tuesday, Adesina said Buhari entertained pleas for him to be president for the past one year before declaring his intention. "The other one of running one term was [...]
One of the things I have resolved to do this year is to find joy in everything I come across. The kind of joy that keeps you sane through the toughest of times. That one which keeps you going when the fiercest challenges rise; the kind of joy that makes you smile when you hit the rock at the bottom [...]
The National Coalition of Patriots for Positive Change, a civil society organisation (CSO), says President Muhammadu Buhari has done well. The group said it had endorsed Buhari for a second term because of the success his administration had recorded in the fight against insurgency. Speaking with journalists in Abuja on Sunday, Charles Mbani, president of group, and Israel Akindele, its secretary-general, also [...]
Members of the house of representatives elected on the platform of PDP have endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan for second term, Hon. Mulikat Adeola-Akande said on Monday night. She told the media after a meeting between the president, some governors and reps that the PDP caucus in the house had also passed a vote of confidence on Jonathan. Speaker Aminu Waziri Tambuwal was [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan can’t seem to win these days—and we don’t mean the war against Boko Haram. On the one hand he is being asked to stop declaring (a state of emergency in the north), while at the same time, he is being pressed to declare (his candidacy for 2015). Dates for Mr President’s declaration have been shifted every month since [...]
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