Category: Presidency
PERSPECTIVE – Nigeria and twitter
By Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN We are in perilous times in our land, given the flurry of events in the past one week. It started with the meeting between the President and the Independent National…
Ozekhome, aghast, flays FG on Twitter ban, calls for more prison spaces for violators
The Federal Government has been criticized for not properly weighing the implications of the decision to ban twitter in Nigeria. Human rights activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Chief Mike Ozekhome handed down the…
Buhari names Farouk Yahaya as new Chief of Army Staff
Maj. Gen. Farouk Yahaya. President Muhammadu Buhari has named Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff. A statement making this known and signed by Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu reads: PRESIDENT BUHARI…
Middle Belt berates Buhari, says Nigeria not a Fulani colony; calls on Nigerians to resist imposition of foreign Fulanis
The Middle Belt in Nigeria. The Middle Belt Forum, MBF, has cautioned the President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government to desist from imposing Fulani from all parts of Africa on Nigeria, insisting that Nigeria is…
Okowa mourns COAS, Gen. Attahiru
Late Nigeria's Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Mohammed Attahiru Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has commiserated with President Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian Army and the Attahiru family on the tragic death of Chief…
Alleged looting at NPA: Probe Bala Usman, Reps Minority Caucus urges EFCC
Hadiza Bala Usman, suspended Managing director of Nigeria Ports Authority. The Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has raised alarm on the alleged looting of over N165 billion operating surplus as well as other…
Reps Minority Leader Elumelu flays Buhari, APC for dysfunctional governance, calls for PDP unity, focus to take over govt
Minority Leader, House of Representatives, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu. The President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) has come under severe criticisms for its governance ineptitude, that has left the Nigeria nation dysfunctional in its six…
FG insensitive to rising incessant killings across Nigeria, Ortom
Delta Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa (middle); his Benue state counterpart, Dr. Samuel Ortom,(2nd left); His Royal Majesty, Emmanuel Sideso Abe I, the Ovie of Uvwie Kingdom (2nd right); PDP Chairman in Delta, Chief Kingsley…
PERSPECTIVE – Pantamism, Talibanism, Americanism and extremism: Ingredients cooking terrorism
President Muhammadu Buhari and Isa Pantami, right. Comrade Owei Lakemfa. By Owei Lakemfa Nigeria’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim, also known as Pantami, is busy fighting off those who accuse…