Femi Adesina

Being the presentation by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, as part of activities marking the Nigeria Union of Journalists Week in Kogi State on August 16, 2018

While millions are like Romeos beholding their Juliets, others on the flip-side, however, are like King Leah at his worst. It was as if they got blows to the solar plexus. Ouch! And they are wailing, kicking and screaming

I have always said it privately and in public. If President Muhammadu Buhari decides to run for a second term in 2019, I would support him. It doesn't matter whether I am in government or not

'But I stand with Buhari, and will always do. Why won't you? Your snout is in the honeypot, licking the nectars of office, some cynics would say. Really? My bank balances do not indicate so'

My final words. Be careful what people call you. It may as well come to pass. President Buhari had always called me Chief. It has become prophetic

The current fuel crisis is a combination of SNAFU (Situation Normal All Fouled Up) in the distribution process of petrol, which the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation admitted at the onset of the problem, and deliberate mischief and…

The National Bureau of Statistics announced our descent into recession. They embraced the news, almost with sickening glee. Now, the same agency has announced exit, and they begin to question its impartiality

When the fuss came that the media handlers of the President were transmitting at best third hand information to the public, it did not bother me as much as it did some people, particularly, journalists. The discretion to have anyone with…

Will the descendants of Shimei repent, turn a new leaf, and become human? Will they recognize their own mortality? He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he that is filthy, let him be filthy still

Since that Monday, when I posted the pictures of father and son on Facebook, the thanksgiving on our behalf has been overwhelming. I thank everyone who commented, and prayed for us. May your day of joy not be postponed. Amen

Adesina listed those wishing Buhari dead in an article he posted on his Facebook wall

Till this son of hate, a purveyor of evil and tragedy, called. He identified himself as Jude (I decide to withhold his other name for now). He said: "Mr Adesina, you claim to have spoken with President Buhari. When are you going to stop…

What he is doing is governance; good governance, which will translate to better life for the people