President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday inspected the ruins of Maiduguri Monday Market, destroyed by fire recently, commiserating with the government and people of Borno on the unfortunate incident. The president was also at the palace of the Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar El-Kanemi, to register his profound condolences to...
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South West Agenda for Asiwaju (SWAGA), a support group for Sen. Bola Tinubu, says the President-elect will be the best president Nigeria has ever had. The group’s National Chairman, Sen. Dayo Adeyeye, and National Secretary, Bosun Oladele, said this in a statement in Abuja on Thursday. While congratulating Tinubu...
The National Assembly has tasked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to abide by the Electoral Act 2022 in the conduct of the March 11 Governorship and State Houses of Assembly Elections. President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawn, made the call at the close of Thursday’s plenary while also...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) says it will continue to get involved in politics in order to bring matters surrounding the welfare of workers to the front burner of programmes and policies of government. The NLC President, Mr Joe Ajaero, made the assertion during courtesy visits to some labour...
Former Nigerian President, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, will headline other African greats who will be honoured at the maiden edition of The African Heritage Concert and Awards slated to hold in Kigali, Rwanda, on April 1. Also, former President of Tanzania, late John Magufuli; Vice President of Liberia, Her...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says March 11’s Governorship and State House of Assembly elections will hold as scheduled. The commission gave the assurance in a statement by its National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, in Abuja on...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday inaugurated the Maiduguri Emergency Power Project, describing the feat as another testament towards achieving stable, uninterrupted power supply aimed at improving the economy and lives of Nigerians. The gas plant was constructed by the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Federal Government has distributed food items to victims of Maiduguri Monday market at the Government House Maiduguri Thursday. The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Farouq, said the distribution exercise was based on the approval of President Muhammadu...
Mothers United and Mobilised (MUM), a coalition of Nigerian mothers from all walks of life, has called on the nation’s electoral umpire to remedy lapses observed during Saturday’s polls. It urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to do so ahead of the March 11 Governorship and House of...
By DAVID IORJA, ABUJA – President Muhammadu Buhari has joined leaders and members of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) in celebrating the General Overseer, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, on his 81st birthday. President Buhari in a statement issued on Thursday by his spokesman Mr. Femi Adesina, also rejoiced...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The United Kingdom has congratulated the President-elect, Sen. Bola Tinubu, on his victory at the Presidential and National Assembly elections held on Saturday. UK Foreign Secretary, Mr James Cleverly, gave the congratulation in a statement issued in Lagos, by Atinuke Akande-Alegbe, Senior Communication and...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – A group, Northern Youth Forum, has condemned the call by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should cancel the Presidential elections over alleged infractions and irregularities. The forum described the call as an attempt to cause crises in the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maidugiri – Senator-Elect, Ali Ndume, representing Borno South Senatorial District at the National Assembly, has expressed gratitude to the people of his constituency for reposing confidence in him through their votes in the Saturday elections. Senator Ndume said he will sustain the delivery of dividends of...
A 12 year-old boy, Kamal Ibrahim, passed away on Wednesday calling for help when a midnight inferno engulfed their room in Biu town of Borno State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the tragic incident also claimed the lives of another 13 year-old boy, Aliyu Usman, and...
Sunday’s fire at the Maiduguri Monday Market destroyed 13,000 shops, Gov. Babagana Zulum of Borno said on Thursday in Maiduguri. Zulum told visiting President Muhammadu Buhari that the fire ruined the livelihoods of at least 20,000 traders. He told the president that the North East Development Commission (NEDC) through...
Full speech of President elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu
President Muhammadu Buhari has affirmed that Saturday’s presidential election, in which former Governor of Lagos state, Bola Tinubu emerged as the winner, was flawed. Present Buhari, however, charged Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP), to challenge the outcome of...
Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has described the emergence of Sen. Ahmed Tinubu of the APC winner in the 2023 presidential election as the emergence of true democrat. He said this a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Abba Anwar, on Wednesday in Kano. Ganduje applauded the...
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President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the winner of the 2023 Presidential Election, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Bola Tinubu. The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, on Wednesday morning declared Tinubu as winner of Feb. 25 presidential election with 8,794,726...