The Presidency has debunked claims the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is biased against any ethnicity or religious group. The assertion was in response to a letter addressed to the Nigerian government by some British interests, including members of the British Parliament, legal experts and campaigners. The Presidency, in a statement by the Senior Special
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Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, to President Muhammadu Buhari, Mr. Femi Adesina, has said Nigeria has always been divided and that it did not start under Buhari. According to him, right from amalgamation, Nigeria has been a divided country.Speaking during a Channels TV programme , yesterday Adesina said the division in the country predates
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A group of elder statesmen in Nigeria has expressed concern on the response of the Presidency to their meeting with ex- President Olusegun Obasanjo, saying they “have no regrets or apologies to offer for making ourselves available to dialogue .” Obasanjo had , during a book launch attended by socio – political groups , said
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Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State Tuesday met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House, Abuja. Governor Uzodinma told journalists after the meeting that he discussed the erosion ravaging parts of his state with the president. The governor also spoke about his stance on his party, APC, zoning its 2023 presidential ticket to the
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The Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Kalu, has said contest for office of the President is for any qualified candidate. He, therefore, faulted the zoning of the presidency ahead of the 2023 general elections. According to the former Abia governor, the number one office in the land is an open basket for intending contestants,
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The invitation of the former Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Dr Obadiah Mailafia by the Department of State Services, DSS, has been defended by the presidency over his recent comments on the Boko Haram insurgency. It was made clear to air on the Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Wednesday night, by
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The Presidency yesterday described as patchwork of mischief makers, a trending short video clip, alleging that the Chief of Staff, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari and a former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Adams Oshiomhole had hatched a plan to arrest opposition members ahead of Edo governorship election. The video went viral barely
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THE Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra has faulted the claim by Ohanaeze Ndigbo that it ( Ohanaeze) has the mandate to realise a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction and not an independent state of Biafra . MASSOB , which reacted to a statement credited to the leader of the Igbo
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Governor Nasir El-Rufai has joined few others to say that Nigerian next President should come from the Southern region of the country. The Governor who made this open in an interview with BBC Hausa on Saturday August 8, added that he won’t be supporting any northerner to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. It was
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Thursday, reacted to the deployment of police operatives around the premisis of the Edo State House of Assembly. The Party alleged that the federal government mobilized security operatives to the venue to take over the state House of Assembly. Tweeting on it’s verified handle, the party claimed that the
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The Presidency says none of the 601 de radicalised former Boko Haram members will be absorbed into the military as being peddled by mischief makers. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, said in a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday. The presidential aide added that none of them
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The presidency has distanced itself from Mamman Daura’s remarks in which he kicked against the adoption of rotational presidency in the country come 2023. Daura, while speaking with BBC Hausa on Tuesday, July 28, 2020, had said that the 2023 presidency should be based on competence and qualification, not on tribe and regional interest. According
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By: Patrick Anaso Matagu Foundation, an anti corruption group says the current probe of the activities of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) was a precursor to the actual development of the oil bearing region. Chief Ekene Enefe, founder of the group who said this in an interview with newsmen in Awka on Tuesday, called
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Following the call by the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that all the service chiefs should resign honourably, the Presidency has reacted that only President Muhammadu Buhari can sack Service Chiefs. While noting the resolution passed by the upper legislative house on Tuesday July 21 , the Presidency stated that it is the
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The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has said the invitation of the suspended acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, by the Justice Ayo Salami-led Presidential panel was in his best interest. He stated this while speaking on Channels Television’s program ‘Politics Today’ on
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