While insisting that the trend portends a dangerous precedent that the government of Muhammadu Buhari was taking instructions from the Sultan, the coalition said the government and Islamic leaders should repay the country the extra day that was lost during the next Eid-el-Kabir “in which we expect that only one day should be approved as Public Holiday”
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In a press statement by its President, Nelly Emma; Secretary, John Sailor; and Public Relations Officer, Stanley Mukoro, made available to newsmen on Thursday, the group frowned at the sudden removal of Kachikwu as the GMD of NNPC, describing it as unfair not only to the hard-working technocrat, but to the entire people of the neglected oil rich Niger Delta Region
President Buhari said he received with profound sadness the passing of Maduekwe, who also served as Nigeria’s High Commissioner to Canada.
In all his years of service to Nigeria as a diplomat, minister, politician and ambassador, President Buhari said Maduekwe was an ardent believer in the unity of Nigeria and gave all to that pursuit
Buhari decried the way and manner the nation’s scarce resources were wasted on the importation of food items by the previous regimes.
He said the nation had no option than to concentrate more on agriculture and solid mineral activities.
Others at the airport were Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State, Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State and other government functionaries.
Presidential Guard of Honour was also mounted by the Guards Brigade to welcome the President back home.
We are now halfway into 2016 and I am still a citizen of a one indivisible Nigerian, even though there are current security breaches that must be tactfully handled to thwart the contrived crises that are aimed at achieving what the election tension could not achieve
The nominees include Obinna Chukwuemeka, Salisu Umoru, Iyang Udoh, Okeke Vivian, Liman Munir, Edem Jane, Mohammed Hassan, Martin Cobham, Janet Molegbo, Itegbuoye Sunday, Olatunde Adesesan and Lilian Onu
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday in Abuja advised Muslims to use the holy month of Ramadan as a great opportunity…
It was gathered that Jonathan’s return to Nigeria on Wednesday was to be a part of the team to receive Buhari for the launch of the clean-up exercise in Ogoniland
Speaking at the opening of the Anti-Corruption Summit hosted by Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain, President Buhari said new measures against corruption that will be adopted by the summit should also include mechanisms that will assist countries like Nigeria to combat illegal activities such as crude oil theft
Speaking with State House Correspondents after the closed door discussion, Kaigama, who is also the Catholic Archbishop of Jos, said the group presented a publication on corruption to the president
“According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 72 journalists were killed globally in the year 2015, the most recent information available in that respect
Buhari, whose speech was read by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Youths and Sport, Ololade Agboola, said recovered funds would be used to create jobs
The meetings on Wednesday were launched by Kerry and Nigerian Foreign Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, who both acknowledged security challenges posed by Boko Haram militants in the North East and neighbouring countries, as well as tough economic times caused by a drop in oil prices
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday commended President Muhammadu Buhari on his efforts to end the Boko Haram insurgency in…
Buhari said in the statement: “For anyone who ever doubted our position that the trial of the Senate President is not an anti-corruption drive but political persecution and witch-hunt, the ruling of the Tribunal on Thursday is the clearest signal that what the Senate President is going through is nothing but political persecution at the Tribunal. It also shows that the CCT is being manipulated and remote-controlled by some desperate politicians
“In our successful campaign to win the general election last year, our party, the APC, promised to build a million housing units a year.
“This will turn out to be a very tall order unless the Federal Government builds 250,000 units and the 22 APC States together manage another 250,000 units.
According to a communiqué issued at the end of President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Malabo, both countries also agreed to discuss greater cooperation on oil and gas production and a bilateral trade agreement
Right from the military junta of General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida Nigerians of different Ethno-Religious colouration have had clashes and indeed deadly conflicts that have led to the death of thousands of persons but not a single culprits have been punished. The fact that persons who kill are not punished in accordance with the law it follows therefore that impunity has gradually been institutionalised
“This is in addition to the down turn of oil price, which has remained the nation’s major source of revenue, thereby making things very difficult.”