President Muhammadu Buhari
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President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the relevant government agencies to go after producers and providers of substandard fuel in the country. The President in a statement on Thursday by his media aide, Garba Shehu, said dissatisfied Nigerian consumers are entitled to a proper redress of their complaints. Buhari was reacting to the issue of petroleum…
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Nigeria lost an estimated $50b worth of investment in the petroleum sector. This is was due to uncertainty over the 20 years’ non-passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), lack of progress, and stagnation in the petroleum industry. President Muhammadu Buhari stated this on Wednesday at a ceremony on passage of the PIA, which preceded…
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President Muhammadu Buhari is healthy and fully in charge of the affairs of the nation, the Federal Government and the Presidency said on Thursday. Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed and Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to the President Femi Adesina spoke separately in Abuja. The duo said the President had tested negative to…
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In his keynote address for fiscal year 2018, President Muhammadu Buhari acknowledged Nigeria’s poor economic performance while Governor Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State blamed the lingering insecurity, food shortage, inflation and unemployment on the elite class. However, the president expressed hopes in the roles of agriculture and SMEs but stressed on CBN’s connivance with policymakers…
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Uganda’s President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni recently declared kitchen as a “forbidden place” for men. Image: President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni President Museveni’s statement received huge criticisms in the media because cooking is a basic life skill, and it is more so for the fact that we live in the 21st century when gender stereotypes have…
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Hafsat Abiola-Costello, daughter of MKO Abiola, is “full of gratitude” to President Muhammadu Buhari for declaring June 12 as Nigeria’s Democracy Day in place of the May 29 that has been celebrated since 1999. Image: Hafsat Abiola-Costello Aside the declaration, Buhari also announced that MKO Abiola would be posthumously awarded the highest honor in the land,…
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The Peoples Democratic Party says the national honor proposed to be conferred on the acclaimed winner of June 12, 1993, Chief MKO Abiola, by President Muhammadu Buhari, smacks of hypocrisy and political desperation ahead of 2019 presidential election. PDP said that President Buhari’s action merely sought to use the name and person of Abiola to…
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The Presidency said yesterday that President Muhammadu Buhari was fully ready to present the 2018 Appropriation Bill to the National Assembly, adding that he was only waiting for the legislative arm of government to give him a date for the presentation. Image: Muhammadu Buhari The Senior Special Assistant to the President (National Assembly Matters), Ita…
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My dear citizens, I am very grateful to God and to all Nigerians for their prayers. I am pleased to be back on home soil among my brothers and sisters. 2. In the course of my stay in the United Kingdom, I have been kept in daily touch with events at home. Nigerians are robust…
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Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari returned from more than three months of sick leave in London to a nation agitated by a sluggish economy, re-emerging ethnic tensions and resurgent attacks by Islamist militants in the northeast. Buhari, who left Nigeria on May 7 for medical tests, arrived in the West African nation’s capital, Abuja, on Saturday,…
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The Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force (JNDLF) issued a statement on Wednesday claiming that some of the top members of Nigeria’s military had approached the group and asked them to continue its attacks on oil installations. The JNDLF said that the officers in question wanted to use the attacks as justification to overthrow President Muhammadu…
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