The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), has said only President Muhammadu Buhari can determine the fate of the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu. Malami said this on a Channels TV programme titled, ‘Question Time’ on Friday. The AGF was asked if […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari told Nigerian state governors yesterday that their priority when they receive the second tranche of Paris loan refund should be to pay salaries, pensions and gratuities. “I will not rest until I address those issues that affect our people. One of these basic things is the issue of salaries. It is most […]
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Let me seize this opportunity to bid our President, Muhammadu Buhari, welcome back from his medical trip to the United Kingdom. I am happy he is back on his feet instead of lying inside a life support machine even dead as earlier rumoured. We Christians are taught to forgive our transgressors and pray for our enemies. […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has directed Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to head the special presidential delegation charged with the task of resolving the crisis in the Niger Delta region. The Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, retired Brig.-Gen. Paul Boroh, on Monday in Abuja said the choice of Osinbajo as leader of the […]
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A medical expert, Professor Femi Williams, categorically said yesterday that President Muhammadu Buhari, was anaemic. This, the certified physician in Anatomic Pathology from London and Ireland, told The Nation in an interview, could only have been responsible for the blood transfusion which the president got during his medical vacation in the United Kingdom. Buhari admitted […]
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The National Caretaker Committee of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday welcomed President Muhammadu Buhari from his medical vacation in London. In a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Mr Dayo Adeyeye, the party prayed for complete recovery of the president. It, however, advised the presidency to be more transparent in managing the president’s health, saying […]
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Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari said on Friday he will continue to rest and undergo further medical tests in Britain within weeks, after returning home from two months of medical leave. “I deliberately came back towards the weekend, so that the Vice President (Yemi Osinbajo) will continue and I will continue to rest,” he said in […]
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President Buhari has returned to Nigeria, after 51 days on vacation in London, United Kingdom. Femi Adesina, the special adviser on media and publicity said President Buhari’s plane landed in Kaduna well after 7.am today in Kaduna, debunking earlier reports that the President flew in at about 4.am. “We are now at the helipad at […]
Read More Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari will return home on Friday after nearly two months in Britain on medical leave, his office said in a statement. The 74-year-old has been in London since January 19, officially on vacation and to have what the presidency said was “routine medical check-ups”. But aides have had to counter persistent rumours […]
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Nigeria will sell portions of its oil assets to help fund President Muhammadu Buhari’s four-year plan to lift the economy from its worst slump in a quarter century and create 15 million jobs, Bloomberg report. In the 2017-2020 economic blueprint, which lenders including the World Bank are awaiting to conclude funding facilities for Africa’s second-biggest […]
Read More The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has declared three-day prayers for the quick recovery and early return to Nigeria of President Muhammadu Buhari. A statement signed by NANS President Chinonso Obasi and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Abuja, said that the prayers would start on Wednesday. Obasi said that […]
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Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari, to speak with him to prove he is hale and hearty instead of shopping for outsiders to speak with. Fayose said Nigerians would be more convinced if the president spoke with him. The governor in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, noted […]
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