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    Igbo and Buhari’s Peace Speech in Imo State

    (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 13 September, 2021) President Muhammadu Buhari last week in Imo State acknowledged the resourcefulness and enterprising spirit of Igbo people. He said: “The fundamental thing about the Igbo people is that there is no town you visit in Nigeria without seeing the Igbo being in charge of either […] More

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    Buhari Sacks Two Ministers, Re-assigns Two others

    President Muhammadu Buhari has relieved two members of his cabinet of their positions, just as he has moved two others to other offices. In a statement released by Femi Adesina, special adviser on media and publicity to the president, Mohammed Nanono, erstwhile minister of agriculture and rural development and Sale Mamman, his counterpart in the […] More

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    EDITORIAL: A NATION ABANDONED: WHERE ARE THE PATRIOTS?

    The signing of the Petroleum Industry Act last week was the first major official assignment of President Muhammadu Buhari after his return from 18-day trip to the United Kingdom. With the number of years, the legislation had spent in the National Assembly chambers, and the interest it has generated since it was sent to the […] More

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    The President is back

    (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 16 August, 2021) Twenty-four hours after paying an inter-infirmary visit to his co-Londoner, co-APC founder, comrade and power-sharer, President Muhammadu Buhari came back last week to meet his Nigeria as dying as he left it. Nigeria’s definition under him has remained sorrow, tears and blood. In his absence, […] More

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    The Senate Rejects the Nomination of Lauretta Onochie as INEC commissioner

    At last the Nigerian Senate, Tuesday, rejected President Muhammadu Buhari’s nomination of Lauretta Onochie as a national commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. This followed the submission of the screening report by the Committee on INEC during plenary, recommending the rejection of the nominee.Kabiru Gaya, chairman of the committee, said Onochie’s nomination was […] More

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    David Mark Bows Out of Presidential Race

    ….As Wike Faults Buhari on Security Former Senate President, David Mark, has declared that he would not be contesting the 2023 presidential election. Mark made the declaration at Etche, Rivers State on Tuesday while inaugurating the 21-kilometre Odufor – Akpoku – Umuoye road construction by the Rivers State Government. Mark, who described the Rivers State […] More

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    Nigerians Denied Freedom on Democracy Day

    Saturday, June 12, 2021, appeared to have been a national referendum on President Muhammadu Buhari’s six years rule as Nigerians protested bad governance, attempt to regulate the social media, intimidating the electronic media through the Nigeria Broadcasting Commission, NBC and spiraling insecurity across the country. Nigerians gathered in their numbers in Abuja, Lagos, and other […] More

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    Speech by President Muhammadu Buhari, on The Occassion of Commemoration and Celebration of Democracy Day on 12th June, 2021

    SPEECH BY HIS EXCELLENCY, MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE OCCASION OF COMMEMORATION AND CELEBRATION OF DEMOCRACY DAY ON 12TH JUNE, 2021 Fellow Nigerians, ​I join you all today to commemorate and celebrate our Democracy Day. It is a celebration of freedom and a […] More

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    Twitter Ban Complicates Government Credibility Crisis

    Apart from condemnations coming in from Nigerians, organisations and the international community, the ban placed on Twitter may have complicated the crisis of credibility of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. After Twitter said it is a matter of concern that the government decided to censor the people, contrary to the dictates of democracy, foreign […] More

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    President Buhari’s Drums of War and Twitter’s Reaction

    The most trending issue of the moment involves Twitter’s deletion of President Muhammadu Buhari’s threats to some Nigerians whom he described as “many people misbehaving today were too young to remember the deaths and destruction from the civil war”. He then threatened, “those of us who went through the war will treat them in the […] More

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    Buhari Calls for Collective War against COVID-19 and Bad Economy

    President Muhammadu Buhari, Tuesday in Abuja, called for joint global efforts to tackle COVID-19 and the consequent dwindling effects on national economies which would require a global framework to resuscitate and ameliorate the burden on the people. Femi Adesina, special adviser, media and publicity, said in a statement that Buhari spoke at a ceremony to […] More

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    Restructuring: AG Malami Faults Governors’ Demand, Says Agitation Does Not Hold Water

    Southern Governors’ Clamour Lacks Legitimacy Political Elite Instigating, Celebrating Insecurity FG To Challenge Proposed Establishment of Lagos Anti-Corruption Agency Volume of Terror Funding Amazing, Huge Agitators for restructuring should perish the thought of its happening under the present political dispensation of President Muhammadu Buhari. This indication was given on Wednesday by the attorney general of […] More

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