Garba Shehu

QUESTION: If the disarmament and rehabilitation of 30,000 ex-agitators could do so much for nation, how far would 18,000 skilled and unskilled new jobs go towards cementing that peace?

The popular support for the administration, especially among the poor and disadvantaged, is still holding up and is unlikely to significantly wane. In fact, trends from our internal polling suggest that this should hold up, or even grow all…

President Muhammadu Buhari, to the disappointment of this group, delivered a calm, brilliant performance. He refused to be provoked and did not get angry at the taunting.

A joke on WhatsApp last week was about the abuse and insults heaped on Muhammadu Buhari, attacking him for everything wrong with the country but failing to answer an important question: who do you have that is better?

Although the AU has appointed and mandated Champions for a number concurrent matters of interest to the continent, this is the first the problem of corruption is getting this sort of attention

The theme of the summit was: “Investing in Youth for a Sustainable Future”

Following the outcome of this election, some of the politicians who lost began to whip up fears of vendetta against the the region even when there was no basis at all for this. It may have been a defensive strategy. But it nonetheless led…

Taking everything concerning the trip as a whole, the two meetings, i.e the bilateral between Nigeria and Turkey and that of the “D 8” in which the country participated, it can safely be concluded that this is perhaps one of the best…

In a statement on Monday, Shehu dismissed an article by a so-called Nigerian historian, Max Siollun, which speculates that Nigeria faces imminent political and constitutional crisis on account of President Buhari’s absence to attend to his…

The New Year 2017 has been described as the year in which the major policies of the All Progressives Congress administration will show results in full. President Buhari, who is not a man of many words will speak through his actions. No one…

Aregbesola said at the signing of the MOU that his administration has been able to endure the harsh economic challenges in the country because of the government's huge investments in human development

Japheth Omojuwa, one of Nigeria's top three influencers seemed tasked in his patience reacting to calls that we must stop talking about the immediate past administration in this country. "People are still talking about who ran governments…

The TICAD seeks a win-win partnership between Japan and Africa. A key objective of the conference is to build up African ownership of its own vision of growth and development

'Also, records from the Army show the rescue of no fewer than 15,000 captives, mostly women and children, from the terrorists from February to date. In addition, dozens of communities that were previously under the control of the terrorists…

The major takeaway of the Presidential visit is the signing of an agreement allowing both countries to put in place a “robust mechanism for the effective coordination and management of security issues between the two countries to enable…

This given opportunity, as many have noted, was the first time a Nigerian President - and the second African - had addressed the EU parliament

The new Nigerian president, who promised to tackle the problem of climate change in his inaugural speech, has spun a compelling narrative on the disappearing Lake Chad, the environment around the Chad basin and how these have become the…

I will make it clear from the beginning that the critic is entitled to his and her opinion and nothing said here is intended to silence him or her

During the past few months since he took on the mantle of CHANGE, President Muhammadu Buhari has been restructuring the foundations of the Nigerian government, which have disintegrated and putrefied over decades of mismanagement

A press statement from the Directorate of Media and Publicity of the APCPCO noted that intelligence report at its disposal indicated that Yuguda is in the process of manufacturing crises across the state so as to give an impression that…