Oshiomhole said the largesse never got to state governors elected on the platform of other parties
Browsing: President Muhammadu Buhari
Over the past few weeks matters that dominated the headlines have included the purported $6bn loans and currency swap deal with China, the radicalization of ‘Fulani’ herdsmen as a new terrorist group, the trial of Senate President Saraki by the Code of Conduct Tribunal, agitations for Biafra by the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, Boko Haram, Buhari’s foreign trips and the debate on whether the Naira should be devalued or not
The OccupyNASS had since Tuesday blocked the entrance of the National Assembly without any effort by the police to dislodge them
Speaking at a meeting with members of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, President Buhari said he was very disturbed by the hardship which state government workers across the country and their families were facing due to the non-payment of salaries
Speaking at a meeting with the visiting Managing Director of the World Bank, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, President Buhari said the repatriation of the additional $320 million in Switzerland, which has been identified as illegally taken from Nigeria under the late General Sani Abacha administration, will help to ease the current economic hardship facing the country
The President gave the order in Abuja in his address delivered by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, at the public presentation of a book entitled: “Who will love my country: Ideas for building the Nigeria of our dream.”
President Muhammadu Buhari made this known at the opening ceremony of the 56th Annual General Meeting and delegates meeting of the Nigeria Medical Association, tagged: Sokoto 2016.
The Senate had in past weeks in strongly worded statements asked President Buhari to immediately sign the budget and also called for the resignation of the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi
So also did the US say that the pervasive corruption in the Jonathan-led administration was responsible for the failure of the country to assist Nigeria in the fight against Boko Haram
Bafarawa told the News Agency of Nigeria in Sokoto on Saturday that the just concluded visit to China by Buhari would transform the nation’s economy as more investors would come and invest in the country
The President made the remark at the 13th summit of the Organisation of Islamic Countries in Istanbul, Turkey
The group stated this in a statement made available to newsmen in Lagos
President Buhari’s visit to China this week was to discuss the development of the country’s infrastructure, including a $2 billion loan for railway projects
The position of the Senate was contained in a reaction to claims in the media credited to the Executive arm of government on the 2016 budget that the National Assembly left out some critical aspects, which resulted in President Muhammadu Buhari not assenting to it
Fearlessly outspoken and scourge of bad governance, he has captured the imagination and the hearts of Nigerians with his brand of activism whereby the pulpit – of his calling (he is founder and Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly church) – becomes a tool, rather than a clog, in his relentless fight for a better country
By implication, Buhari will not sign the Appropriation Bill into law, as earlier planned, before jetting out of the country this weekend to China for economic and business deals for Nigeria
According to Shehu, the greatest insensitivity to the welfare of the people is epic corruption for which he said “the PDP had a notorious and unrivalled record in our recent democratic history of bad governance”
Buhari had last week said he would not assent to the Budget until he receives the breakdown
The Senate is currently on Easter break while Buhari will be travelling to Washington, United States for the Nuclear Security Summit on Wednesday and scheduled to return to the country on Sunday
They were alleged to have got the discounted foreign exchange on the orders of Governor of the CBN, Godwin Emefiele