A former Minister of Education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, yesterday described the broadcast by President Muhammadu Buhari as a “missed opportunity”. She tweeted yesterday: “I can give an instant citizen’s feedback to President @MBuhari that his speech this morning was a a terrible case of missed opportunity.” Also, the Eastern Consultative Assembly (ECA) faulted the President’s…
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As President Muhammadu Buhari sends resumption letter to National Assembly, a Presidency source on Monday disclosed that the President will work from his official residence till renovation work is completed in his office. According to The Nation, the source, who pleaded anonymity, said that the President has actually resumed work at home. Buhari, who had…
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President Muhammadu Buhari will return to Nigeria today, Saturday, a statement by his Special Adviser, Media and Publicity Femi Adesina has said. Adesina added that Buhari will address the country on Monday, August 21 by 7AM. Read below: President Muhammadu Buhari returns to the country later today, after receiving medical attention in London. The President had left the country…
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President Muhammadu Buhari has received Senate President Bukola Saraki and Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara at the Abuja House London. This was revealed on Thursday via a photo shared on Facebook by Lauretta Onochie, Personal Assistant to the President on Social Media. The picture, taken by Bayo Omoboriowo, the President’s personal photographer, had Saraki,…
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President Muhammadu Buhari must return to Nigeria and resume duty as President within 21 days from today, or resign completely and return to his hometown of Daura to take care of his health, the #ResumeOrResign movement said on Wednesday. Should he fail to adopt one of these options during the three-week time frame, the group said it would go to court to seek an order of mandamus to compel the Federal Executive…
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More than three months after leaving Nigeria, it remains unclear when President Muhammadu Buhari will return, despite his remarks about his desire to resume work. They were merely the latest in a number of presidency announcements. But even from far-away London Buhari and his aides have restrained acting president Yemi Osinbajo. “He (Osinbajo) is so…
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The Presidency has described the #ResumeOrResign group as an illegal assembly formed to frustrate the Federal Government’s ongoing campaign against corruption in the country. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, stated this when he addressed members of the Centre for Civil Society and Justice (CCSJ), at the precincts of the Aso Rock…
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The over two-month-old medical vacation of President Muhammadu Buhari was in the global spotlight on Sunday as international news organisation, Cable News Network, CNN, made a question out of the President’s absence from Nigeria. In its foreign affairs show taggged ‘The Global Public Square’, GPS, anchored by Fareed Zakaria, CNN asked: “The head of state…
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The Presidency says Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara would on Wednesday lead five other governors in paying a visit to President Muhammadu Buhari in London. This was disclosed by three presidential spokespersons, Femi Adesina, Garba Shehu and Laolu Akande, at a press briefing in Abuja. The other governors would include: Dave Umahi of Ebonyi, Abdullahi…
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Aisha Buhari, the wife of the President, has given an insight into the power play at the Nigerian seat of power in the wake of a sickness that has kept her husband out of the country for over two months. President Muhammadu Buhari had flown to London 63 days ago to resume medical treatment after…
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