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Buhari – The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Thursday, urged Nigerians to trust the ability of the country’s armed forces to quell the violence and insecurity nationwide and restore lasting peace. He also said, under his watch, the military would maintain its operational drive to degrade terrorists and their activities, especially in the […]
#Twitterban – The ban on Twitter by the Muhammadu Buhari administration is a clampdown on freedom of expression and further shrinks Nigeria’s civic space, activists and opposition political parties have said. PREMIUM TIMES reported how the Nigerian government announced on Friday that it was suspending the activities of the social media giant in Nigeria. The […]
Buhari – President Muhammadu Buhari has been giving two weeks deadline to investigate allegations that N106bn of public funds were missing from 149 ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), as documented in the 2018 annual audited report by the Auditor-General of the Federation.” The two weeks deadline was issued by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project […]
Ibori – The Governor of Delta State Ifeanyi Okowa has revealed that his government has sent a protest letter to President Muhammadu Buhari over James Ibori’s loot recovered by the federal government. Okowa stated this when he appeared on Politics Today, a Channels Television programme, on Wednesday. A few weeks ago, the UK committed to […]
Buhari has charged the new service chiefs to secure the country before the beginning of rainy season. The president stated this on Friday when he decorated the service chiefs with their new ranks. He decorated the new Chief of Defence Staff, Lucky Irabor, as a full general. Others decorated are Ibrahim Attahiru the Chief of Army […]
Mahmood Ahmadu is the chairman of Innovate 1 Pay, a Nigerian financial technology (fintech) company established in 2012, providing online payment solutions for retail and wholesale mobile remittances, mobile money and currency card payments. The largest domestic service provider of this nature in its home country, the company has since spread its operations to 24 different nations.
Buhari – “The death of our front line health workers in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic is particularly sad because these professionals risk their own lives in order to save others.” President Muhammadu Buhari has saluted the sacrifices of 20 doctors reportedly killed by COVID-19, saying their welfare is a priority for his government. […]
Buhari has again condemned the attack on the office of the United Nations by Boko Haram terrorists in 2011. A car filled with explosives had on August 21, 2011, rammed into the building, setting off an explosion that killed 23 UN staff, including Nigerians in the first suicide bomb attack in Nigeria. Witnesses said the […]
Nigerian Guild of Editors has appealed to the Buhari administration for a bailout.The NGE made the appeal after a Zoom meeting of its standing committee on Thursday, 4 June. In a communique issued by the Guild administrative secretary, the NGE said that the dire state of the media, has been made worse by the COVID-19 […]
Buhari on Thursday ordered a “fierce” military operation against bandits in Sokoto State. The directive came following Wednesday’s attacks in the Sabon Birni Local Government Area of the state, which left many people dead and others injured. The President condoled with the families of the victims. “As the world and Nigeria battle coronavirus pandemic, it […]