President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said the challenges facing the nation are temporary and will soon fizzle out. He made the remark in his New Year message to the nation. The President also said he was not unaware of the sufferings Nigerians are presently going through. He assured that he will not fail to keep […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari, has appended his signature to an Act of the National Assembly which authorised the executive to extend the implementation of the Capital vote component in the 2015 budget beyond December 31, 2015, The Punch report. Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters ( Senate ), Senator Ita Enang, confirmed […]
Read More President Muhammadu Buhari last night justified the continued detention of former National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) and leader of the Independent Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu. He said those who committed serious crimes against the country cannot be granted temporary freedom because they could jump bail. Speaking during his maiden “Presidential […]
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A FLEET of new exotic cars is on the way for the Presidency. The BMW salon cars for principal officers are likley to cost N3,630,000,000, going by the 2016 budget for the Presidency. The number of the cars is not specified., The Nation report. Besides, N189.1m is voted for tyres for various vehicles, including the […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo are to spend N2.2bn on travels and transport, foodstuffs and catering materials, refreshment and meals as well as honorarium and sitting allowances in the 2016 fiscal year. Details of this spending are contained in the 2016 budget of N6.08tn, which the President submitted to a joint session of […]
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Chairman, board of Directors of Africa’s global bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Tony Elumelu, has been named among the “100 most influential Africans for 2015.” The list published by pan African magazine “New African” presents Africa’s definitive power list and profiles the continent’s top game changers in eight different fields including Politics (22); […]
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Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has called on Nigerians to pray for President Muhammadu Buhari for God to give him the necessary wisdom to find solution to the country’s economic and security problems. The governor also advised the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, to relocate to Sambisa in Borno State or at best, […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has accused the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan of deliberately provoking Nigerian soldiers into mutiny by its actions and turning round to arrest and prosecute the soldiers. He said the past administration, while fighting terrorists, sent soldiers to the battlefield without arms and ammunition. Buhari made the accusation in an interview […]
Read More President Muhammadu Buhari has explained that despite the fall in the international price of crude oil, measures taken to block leakages in the nation’s revenue generating agencies would ensure enough cash to fund the N6 trillion budget he recently submitted to the National Assembly. The president gave the explanation in an interview with Mansur Liman […]
Read More The Presidency on Saturday said Nigeria’s military hierarchy did not treat President Muhammadu Buhari well during the tenure of Goodluck Jonathan as president of the country. The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, Mr. Garba Shehu, in a Facebook post, described the military’s action as shameless. In the run in of […]
Read More Nigeria may be in for harder times than previously envisaged as the International Monetary Fund has predicted that crude oil prices may slump to as low as $20 per barrel in 2016. In the ‘IMF Executive Board Concludes 2015 Article IV Consultation with Iran’ report, the body highlighted that the price of crude oil could […]
Read More Nigeria has “technically won the war” against Boko Haram, President Muhammadu Buhari said yesterday. He told the BBC in an interview aired on television that the militant group could no longer mount “conventional attacks” against security forces or population centres. According to him, the sect had been reduced to fighting with Improvised Explosives Devices (IED) […]
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