Buhari will be buried in Daura Monday – Garba Shehu

The departed ex-President Muhammadu Buhari will be buried in Daura, Katsina State on Monday in line with Islamic rites. He passed in London about 4.30 pm on Sunday, His media aide, Garba Shehu, disclosed this on Sunday. Shehu had earlier announced Buhari’s death in a terse statement on Sunday, confirming that the former Nigerian leader […]

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Buhari: Tinubu summons emergency FEC meeting, orders full state honours

President Bola Tinubu has summoned an emergency session of the Federal Executive Council for Tuesday, July 15, 2025, in honour his departed predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, who died in a UK hospital on Sunday. This was in a tribute he signed Sunday evening, shortly after news of Buhari’s passing broke. The President confirmed that Buhari would […]

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Aiyedatiwa mourns Buhari, says a patriot exits

Ondo State Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa has commiserated with President Bola Tinubu, Katsina State government and people and family of the departed former President Muhammadu Buhari, over the latter’s passage. In a condolence message he signed, the governor wrote’ “I received the news of the passing of former president Muhammadu Buhari this afternoon. It’s one death […]

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Aregbesola says APC has failed, ADC will rescue Nigeria from hunger, hardship

rallies Osun for coalition takeover By John Dike, Osogbo President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration is a monumental failure that has subjected Nigerians to untold hunger, poverty, and insecurity, which deserves to be voted out in the next election according to the interim national secretary of the Action Democratic Congress, ADC, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola. The former […]

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Tinubu confirms Buhari’s death

President Bola Tinubu has described the death of his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, as a national loss. He spoke on Sunday while announcimg the former president”s passage. The announcement was contained in a statement issued on Sunday by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga. “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has announced […]

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Buhari dies

Nigeria’s immediate former President Muhammadu Buhari has died. His death was confirmed on Sunday afternoon by his former spokesman, Mallam Garba Shehu, Shehu said Buhari died on Sunday at a hospital in the United Kingdom. According to the statement, “The family of the former president has announced the passing on of the former president, Muhammadu […]

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ADC faults Shettima’s recant of forthright remark on president’s power limit

African Democratic Congress (ADC) has dismissed the presidency’s clarification on Vice President Kashim Shettima’s remarks that the President lacked constitutional power to remove an elected governor. It described the clarification as “a mere attempt at political correctness.” ADC, in a statement issued in Abuja and signed by the party’s Interim National Publicity Secretary and spokesperson, […]

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Lagos LG poll: Why we fielded candidates only in 20 LGs – ADC

Agency Report African Democratic Congress, ADC, has explained why it fielded candidates in only 20 Local Government Areas in Saturday’s Lagos council election. The decision, it said, was in compliance with a Supreme Court judgment that said the state had only 20 constitutionally recognised councils. ADC, the adopted party of the national coalition struggling to […]

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Stop fabricating rift between me, Tinubu, Shettima warns

Vice President Kashim Shettima, has warned the media and politicians to stop fabricating fictitious conflicts between him and President Bola Tinubu. He detested the “practice of wrenching statements from context in order to fabricate nonexistent conflicts” between Nigeria’s first two leaders. Shettima gave the warning in a statement by his spokesman and Senior Special Assistant […]

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