A former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, on Monday, accused President Muhammadu Buhari of destroying the naira with poor economic policies since he assumed office in 2015. The ex-minister, who stated this when she featured in a programme on Arise TV, said the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has become an annex of the Presidential
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The presidency on Sunday faulted the claims by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, on the country’s security situation. The Sultan had said at a recent forum that northern part of the country had been taken over by bandits and terrorists. The Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Femi Adesina, who
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President Muhammadu Buhari will on Friday make a New Year broadcast to Nigerians. The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, to the president, Garba Shehu, disclosed this in a statement titled: “President Buhari makes New Year broadcast,” on Thursday. The statement read: “President Muhammadu Buhari will make a New Year broadcast to the nation
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The 2021 federal budget passed by the National Assembly has been signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari. President Buhari signed the Appropriation Bill of N13,588,027,886,175 into law in his office at the Aso Rock Villa on Thursday. Ripples Nigeria had reported that the National Assembly passed the budget on December 21, 2020 at an
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The leadership of the House of Representatives on Monday disclosed that it has never apologised to anyone including President Muhammadu Buhari for exercising its constitutional responsibility to the Nigerian citizens. Chairman, House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Honourable Benjamin Kalu, who gave the position via a statement entitled: ‘Clarification on apology to the Presidency’,
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed claims by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and other critics of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration that Nigeria was tilting towards becoming a failed state. Describing critics of the ruling party as naysayers and partisan doomsday prophets, the APC said Nigeria was nowhere near a failed state. The
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The House of Representatives is no longer keen on inviting President Muhammadu Buhari to address it on the security challenge in the country. The House leadership, according to sources, found that the initial invitation had assumed ethnic and political dimension. It was also learnt that some of the lawmakers behind the motion to invite Buhari
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A few hours after President Muhammadu Buhari declared that peace has been restored in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States, three towns in Borno and Adamawa States were attacked by Boko Haram insurgents on the night of December 24. The simultaneous attacks happened in Chibok and Debiro in Biu local government areas of Borno and Garkida
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The Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Femi Adesina, says the present administration is smarter than the regime of former President Goodluck Jonathan in the way it handled the abduction and subsequent release of 344 students of the Government Science Secondary School in Kankara local government area of Katsina State. In
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President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja reiterated the promise of his administration to “remain unyielding in confronting the Boko Haram insurgency as well as other forms of criminality that have bedevilled our country.” Speaking at the induction and commissioning ceremony of newly acquired NAF MI-171E Helicopter and two reactivated Alpha Jets and one L39ZA aircraft,
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The Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, on Tuesday signed the state’s 2021 budget of N123 billion. He also ascribed the state’s infrastructural transformation to the support of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. The governor said unlike other states, Ebonyi would appreciate the president’s gesture, noting that the state acknowledged the depth of such support. He said:
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The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has told Nigerians they should be thankful that bombings do not happen in the country every day as was the case in the past. Adesina, who said this while appearing on Channels Television programme, Sunday Politics, on December 20, insisted that the
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Constitutional lawyer, Mike Ozekhome has described the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration as one that has lost its legitimacy for abdicating its major duty and functions of securing Nigeria. Ozekhome who spoke in Abuja on Saturday, December 19, while reacting to the news of the release of the 344 students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara,
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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to stop the push for registration of Nigerians for National Identity Number (NIN), and withdraw the threat to block SIM cards. The group asked the president to instruct the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Mr Isa Pantami, and Director-General of the National
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On the release of the Kankara Boys Science School, Kastina State abducted by gunmen last Friday, Governor David Umahi commended President Muhammadu Buhari for ensuring the release of the schools boy and reuniting them to their families. Governor Uamhi who also commended the Security Chiefs and the National Security Adviser to the President insisting that
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