Lai Mohammed lists Buhari’s achievements in 2021 – Full text

Information and Culture minister, Lai Mohammed, has listed 100 achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2021. Following is the full text of the press conference he addressed on Thursday in Lagos, in which he paraded the achievements: “Gentlemen, good morning, and thanks for honouring our invitation to this press conference which, in line with our tradition, […]

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Akinwumi Adesina: Face of a positive Nigeria, setting new agenda for African Development

Credit: Reuters/Amit Dave By Wole Oyebade and Femi Adekoya It was a sombre afternoon, early 2020, when the bad news wafted across the globe. The world battling its worst pandemic in 100 years was too weary to notice it. But in Nigeria, the shitstorm of “corruption and abuse of office” at the top of the […]

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Buhari orders service chiefs to crush Boko Haram, ISWAP before 2023

Minister of Defence, retired Maj-Gen Bashir Magashi (R) leading Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Lucky Irabor (L) and other Service Chiefs to a security meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, yesterday. The service chiefs yesterday got a fresh marching order from President Muhammadu Buhari to crush the Islamic State of […]

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1.5 million Nigerians in Italy need passport – Diaspora organisation

Mr George Omo-Iduhon, Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation Europe (NIDOE), Italy Chapter, said more than 1.5 million registered Nigerians urgently needed the Nigerian passport. Omo-Iduhon stated this in an interview in Lagos on Saturday while reflecting on the activities of NIDOE in Europe. NIDOE is the European arm of a global Nigerian diaspora network, established […]

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Taraba attack: Nigeria failed to act on our intelligence – Ambazonia

The President of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia (former British Southern Cameroons), Dr. Samuel Ikome Sako, has disowned the allegation that his country was responsible for the recent attack on Taraba community, describing the situation as unfortunate. Recall that on November 17, 2021, about 11 persons, including the traditional ruler, were confirmed dead in an […]

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Electoral Bill: AGF writes Buhari, says mandatory direct primaries will cause confusion

Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN) Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), has written a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari highlighting the problems with the inclusion of mandatory direct primaries in the Electoral Act amendment bill. It was gathered that the AGF’s letter on the amended Electoral […]

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Buhari off to Turkey as insecurity escalates in northern Nigeria

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday traveled with his wife, Aisha, and seven ministers to Istanbul to attend the third Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit amid calls on him to visit northern Nigeria as insecurity rises in the region. Buhari had come under attack in recent times due to the rising insecurity in the region with youths campaigning […]

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3,071 non-state actors, 964 security agents killed in one year – SBM Report

Northern elders, Middle Belt Forum slam Buhari A damning report on the carnage of bloodletting across the country this year was, yesterday, released by SB Morgen (SBM) Intelligence, which stated that 973 Boko Haram members, 1,989 bandits and 88 kidnappers have been gunned down between October 2020 and September 2021. It said that at least […]

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Hope dims for new electoral law 48 hours to deadline for Buhari’s assent

Buhari departing. Photo/ facebook/MuhammaduBuhari • Buhari departs Abuja for Turkey-Africa summit, returns on deadline day • Lawmakers proceed on Yuletide recess • Turkey trip stalls National Assembly leaders’ last effort to save amended bill • Fate of Ekiti, Osun governorship polls hangs over stalemate President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, departed Abuja for Istanbul, Turkey, to attend […]

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