The Southeast must embrace other geopolitical zones in politics to get its fair share of Nigeria, Sen. Onyekachi Nwebonyi (APC- Ebonyi North) said in Abakaliki on Monday. Nwebonyi, vice-chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation and Water Resources told a news conference that the zone must play politics...
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By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has not approved any salary increase purportedly emanating from the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Responsibility Commission (RMAFC) of 114 per cent for certain officers.timubu The Special Adviser, Special Duties, Communications & Strategy to the president, Mr Dele Alake made the...
President Muhammadu Buhari is fulfilled leaving as Nigeria’s leader after serving for eight years. This is according to presidential aide Garba Shehu who featured on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics. He noted that his principal has done his best for the country. “The President feels fulfilled. He has done exceptionally...
The Presidency says the high inflation in the country is a world-wide problem which no nation is immune to following the global economic downturn and the COVID-19 pandemic. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s spokesman stated this while reacting to a Guardian newspaper write-up, tying the rise in inflation to...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari will be in London for an additional one week, at the behest of his Dentist, who has started attending to him. the President’s spokesman Mr Femi Adesina, stated this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. ”The Specialist requires to see...
FACT SHEET HIGHLIGHTS OF ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE BUHARI ADMINISTRATION (2015 – 2023) CONTENTS Legislative Reform Executive Orders Infrastructure: Rail, Roads, Air and Sea Ports, Power, Housing, Water Resources Ease of Doing Business Reforms Digital Economy & Digital Identity Oil and Gas Solid Minerals Agriculture Social Investment and Poverty Alleviation...
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has asserted that Nigerians should not hold the President Muhammadu Buhari administration responsible for not rescuing all the kidnapped Chibok Girls. It is like a self-accounting when you are exiting a position of public office to be humble...
In a series of apparently syndicated editorials, this country’s newspapers – the Daily Trust and ThisDay – have attempted to lay the blame of the dire security situation in Benue State entirely at the feet of the outgoing president. As for the man who has actually presided over Benue...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – The Presidency says the recently conducted presidential election scheduled for February 25, 2023, was an improvement on past elections and due credit should be given to the government and people of this country. The Senior Special Assistant to the President, (Media & Publicity), Malam...
The wife of the President, Aisha Buhari on Wednesday, shared a video of Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State saying that elements in Aso Villa are working against the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu ahead of the February 25 poll. Tinubu, a former Lagos...
The Presidency has frowned at the fake reports of stone-pelting incident at Hotoro area of Kano on the day of the visit to the city by President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari’s support for the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, is unquestionable. The Presidential spokesman, Mallam Garba Shehu stated this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, while reacting to an allegation levelled against Buhari by Alhaji...
National Coordinator and Special Envoy of Ecology and Marine International Human Rights Organisation, Alhaji Musa Saidu, has cautioned against inference in the ongoing investigations of alleged fraud by the CBN Governor, Dr Godwin Emefiele. Saidu told the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja that the recent criticism...
President Muhammadu Buhari came into office in 2015 to find that a law, which stipulated for the collection of a token on banking transactions existed but was not being correctly implemented This anomaly arose because certain characters apparently formed a cartel with collaborators in the Nigerian Postal Service, NIPOST...
Presidency has dismissed as fake and untrue that the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, could not account for about N89.1 trillion the CBN collected as Stamp Duty charges. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a member of the House of Representatives from...
Presidency says nine oil-producing states have so far received a total of N625.43 billion 13 percent oil derivation, subsidy and SURE-P refunds from the Federation Account between 1999 and 2021. According to a statement on Friday in Abuja by Malam Garba Shehu, the president’s media aide, the affected states...
The Presidency has dismissed accusations on social media by presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, that some of his supporters, known as “Obidients”, have been “silently arrested” are without foundation or fact. A source in the State House, who spoke under condition of anonymity, said both the...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – The Presidency on Wednesday reassured faithful party members that President Muhammadu Buhari remains a “disciplined soldier” of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and will, in all the coming elections, support only those candidates fielded by the party and no other. This is a warning...
The presidency has called the bluff of Senators from opposition parties who on Wednesday issued a six-week ultimatum to President Muhammadu Buhari to tackle the security challenges bedeviling the country. Recall that the lawmakers staged a walkout from the Senate and threatened to commence impeachment proceedings against President Buhari...
The Presidency says no classified report against the All Progressives Congress (APC) Muslim-Muslim ticket in the forthcoming 2023 presidential election by the Department of State Service (DSS) has been submitted to President Muhammadu Buhari. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that an online newspaper, Peoples Gazette, on Friday...