The Commonwealth Secretariat, in a statement by its Media Division, said Secretary-General Patricia Scotland would deploy Abubakar to lead other eminent persons from across the Commonwealth regions.
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Abubakar gave the advice when he received a delegation of the Northern Leaders and Stakeholders Assembly who paid him a visit in his Abuja home on Saturday.
Abubakar spoke in Lagos at the 10th Memorial Symposium of the late NADECO Chieftain, Chief Abraham Adesanya, at which he was chairman.
The statistics is chilling. In one London hospital alone, 163 people were treated for stabbings, 23 for gunshot wounds and this was between January 1 and April 6 this year. There are some blood sucking demons that have overpowered and overawed our community and our children are being exchanged as sacrifice
The only objective the so-called Hate speech legislation being remotely sponsored by the Presidency is to further strengthen the growing dictatorship and cruel tyranny of the Buhari administration. The Military Constitution, which was forced down our throats by the Abdulsalami Abubakar junta already has built-in mechanisms for unprecedented dictatorship and over centralization of the government at the centre that will now go for the kill in the hands of an unrepentant dictator of power hungry Buhari.
The wedding took place on Friday
The politicization of his inefficiency, weakness, flaws and frailties have all become targets for shooters to lob gunshots at him
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the meeting took place immediately after President Buhari received letters of Credence from the Ambassador of Niger to Nigeria, Alat Mogaskia; the High Commissioner of Ghana, Alhaji Rashid Bawa and that of Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy Sea to Nigeria, Most Rev. Archbishop Antonio Guido Filipazzi.
This situation may be summarized this way: From the 1979 general election onwards the genuinely Leftist parties could participate in electoral contests in Nigeria only by liquidating themselves as they were and as they presented themselves
Abubakar told the News Agency of Nigeria that the development was yet another testimony of the rapid growth and development of democracy in the African continent.
Abubakar stated this while receiving a chieftain of the party, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, who visited him in his residence in Minna on Thursday.
One cannot restate it enough that power in Nigeria is wielded by the rich and strong for the rich and strong. That is why Otedola, Dangote, Adenuga, Uba of our universe have unfettered access to the seat of power than say Ndibe, Adesanmi, Olumhense, etc. We have endured all kinds of looter-leaders for over five decades playing on the inherent illusion of the power one indivisible Nigeria
It was learnt that the three former rulers considered the implications of the exit of Buhari at this point based on the unwritten arrangement for the rotation of the Presidency between the North and the South and the fallout of the emergence of former President Goodluck Jonathan after the death in office of former President Umar Yar’Adua
This was revealed on Thursday by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal
While calling on the male gender in the country to stand up and raise foundations that will speak and defend men, Abubakar called for total support for women
Abubakar decried a situation where the people are going through hardship because of the activities of Boko Haram insurgents, the Niger Delta Avengers and Biafra agitators
Former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, on Saturday did not participate in the governorship and state House of Assembly elections…
Former Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar, who is also the Chairman of the Peace Accord Committee for the General Election, charged Nigerians to go out and vote in peace
Babangida said the clear attempts to whip up support for Jonathan resulted in the “campaigns of calumny against former military Heads of State and presidents who have had the opportunity to govern this country”
Mbeki visted Babangida in his Minna home