Browsing: Garba Shehu

Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, the Minister of State who made the presentation to the cabinet, announced that the project is for the construction of a 40 inches pipeline across 614 kilometers from Ajaokuta to Abuja-Kaduna-Kano. This should mark an important landmark in the implementation of  the first phase of the Nigerian Gas Master Plan, NGMP approved in 2018.

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 to emotional responses to the President, expressed through anger, paranoia, fear, frustration, resentment and confusion

Speaking to journalists in Abuja on Monday, a day after a United Nations representative made the prediction in a Channels TV interview, Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, expressed pleasure at the world body’s accurate observation of the trends in President Muhammadu Buhari’s government.

Reacting to criticisms of the President’s Independence Day speech by the Ohaneze Ndigbo leadership, Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, said it was unfair of the group to blame the recent unrest in the South East region on the Federal Government

This is an important year for Nigeria, not only because the economy has just exited recession. The fight against terrorism has turned the corner with Boko Haram pushed to the fringes of the Lake Chad, restricted to hit-and-run strikes. In this fight, Nigeria is no longer standing alone. We are being supported by our neighbours and the international community.

President Muhammed Buhari has been known to be a disciplined retired military General who lived a simple and austere life devoid of ostentation. He is not known to have the common vices associated with politics and politicians. He does not smoke or drink alcohol.

In 2011, Buhari was defeated by former President Jonathan by 10 million votes. That was a trouncing.
The fact remains that in 2015, Muhammadu Buhari only won because strong elements of the PDP like Atiku Abubakar helped him secure his mandate. On his own, he would have suffered another massive loss. The key difference between 2015 and 2003, 2007 and 2011 was the input of Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu

Addressing members of the Center for Civil Society and Justice, a civil society coalition, who staged a rally in support of President Buhari at the precincts of the Aso Rock Villa on Thursday, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, dismissed the the “return or resign” agitation as an illegal assembly stealthily organized to deliver a body blow to the war against corruption