Tag Archives: President Buhari

By Casmir Igbokwe In Ola Rotimi’s play, ‘The gods are not to blame’, King Odewale is destined from birth to kill his father and marry his mother. To avert this tragedy, his parents, King Adetusa of Kutuje and his wife, Queen Ojuola, give Odewale (soon after his birth) to their special messenger named Gbonka, to dispose of in an evil ...

Former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, has embarked on damage control over the comment earlier attributed to him that he was instrumental to the emergence of Muhammadu Buhari as Nigeria’s President in 2014. In a statement today, Tinubu said he had high regards for Buhari. The statement reads: “We have entered the meat of primary season. Sensationalism and wilful ...

By Erasmus Ikhide A few days from now, the All Progressives Congress’ (APC) delegates in Kano State Central Senatorial District would have made a valid choice between former Senator Basheer Garba Mohammed and Abdulsalam Sale Abdulkarim, popularly known as AA Zaura. The contest is going to be a choice between light and darkness, between hope and hopelessness, between development and ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Abuja lauded the entrepreneurial spirit and doggedness of the President of Dangote Industries Limited (DIL), Aliko Dangote and urged Nigerians in business to emulate this iconic figure, to enable the country to witness real economic growth and development. While receiving the President of DIL and Board members of Dangote Group at the Presidential Villa, ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the composition of the Federal Government’s Team to engage with Twitter over the recent suspension of the operations of the microblogging and social networking service in Nigeria. The approval was announced in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who will chair the team. The Federal ...

Governor Samuel Ortom has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency over Nigeria’s deteriorating security situation. He spoke, yesterday, against the backdrop of killing of seven persons by suspected herdsmen during an attack on an internally displaced persons (IDPs) camp in Abagena community in Benue state. “My colleagues, the governors, must rise and impress on the president to ...

By Casmir Igbokwe In three days time, Nigeria will celebrate 60 years of independence which Britain granted her in 1960. The Federal Government has told us that the celebration will last for one year. According to the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Nigeria deserves a befitting celebration because “for a country that has gone through a bitter, ...

Air Peace designates two planes for operation Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, has ordered the evacuation of 640 Nigerians from South Africa even as he directed the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, to further engage the country’s appropriate authorities and monitor the measures they would take to end the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians. The President took the decisions on ...

Raymond Ozoji, Awka The 7th Anambra State House of Assembly has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to declare November 16th of every year a national public holiday. This was in accordance with the motion moved by Hon. Obinna Chris Emeneka of Anambra-East state constituency yesterday during plenary. He said the date was the day the late Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe was ...