INDEPENDENCE DAY SPEECH BY HIS EXCELLENCY MUHAMMADU BUHARI PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE OCCASION OF THE 59TH INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY 1st OCTOBER, 2019 Dear Compatriots, 1st October each year is an opportunity for us to reflect and Read more
resident Muhammadu Buhari has nominated Godwin Emefiele for a second term as governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Emefiele was first appointed in 2014 by former president Goodluck Jonathan and was retained when Buhari came to office in Read more
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s attendance of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in United Kingdom, which came at huge cost to the nation, as a colossal waste. In a statement released by its Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari Sunday afternoon played host to some governors and leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in London. According to the official twitter account of the Nigerian Presidency, the presented hosted the delegation to a lunch at the Read more
Aisha, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, is on her way to London to visit her husband who is on medical vacation. According to a statement issued on Sunday, the president’s wife would stop over at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, en route Read more
The Presidency is constrained to decry criticisms, mostly on social media, on the retention in London of the Presidential Aircraft, NAF 001 as mostly informed by lack of understanding of protocol around foreign trips by Heads of State all over Read more
A faction of Nigeria’s main opposition People’s Democratic Party led by Senator Ahmed Makarfi Sunday criticised the prisoner swap deal that led to the release of another 82 Chibok girls on Saturday. The Nigerian government said in a statement that Read more
Femi Adesina, special adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on media and publicity, says the president is travelling to London on Sunday night for an indefinite medical follow up. This is coming 57 days after the president arrived from London. According Read more
Boko Haram militants have released 82 schoolgirls out of a group of more than 200 who they kidnapped from the northeastern town of Chibok in April 2014, officials said on Saturday. The girls were released through negotiations with the government, Read more
*Funds released for ex-militants’ rehabilitation & reintegration *Rise in budgetary allocation fallout of recent presidential level visits to oil producing communities In sustenance of the new understanding between the Federal Government and the oil-producing communities of the Niger Delta, the Read more