Tag: Administration
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Abduction of schoolboys on my visiting day to Katsina meant to embarrass my administration – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari said on Friday that the abduction of 344 students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara in Katsina State, was targeted at embarrassing his administration. Buhari made the statement when he met with the rescued Kankara students and representatives of their parents at the Banquet Hall of Government House, Katsina. The president, who…
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Pray for Buhari to last until 2023 (2) – Dele Sobowale
Dele Sobowale “Under this administration, life has lost its value, and more and more citizens are coming under the influence of criminals. We do not see any willingness on the part of President Buhari to honour his oath to provide security for Nigerians. In civilised nations, leaders who fail so spectacularly to provide security will…
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Will a Biden Administration Put Smiles on Africa?, By Tony Iyare
What does the victory of the more urbane Joseph Robinette Biden Jnr hold for Africa? Will the continent elicit a better deal from his incoming administration than the “shithole” perception of a garrulous Donald Trump? Is there some glimmer of hope, that the new American government, with Kamala Momala Harris, an African American as…
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Why my administration may sometimes jettison rule of law – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday said his administration may have to jettison the rule of law for the overriding interest of the country at large. The president said during a gathering of lawyers that the “Rule of Law must be subject to the supremacy of the nation’s security and national interest.” “Our apex court has…
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Why I’ll probe Fayose, Eleka’s administration – Fayemi
Ekiti State Governor-elect, Kayode Fayemi has declared that he will probe the administration of the outgoing Governor Ayodele Fayose. Fielding questions from State House Correspondents after he was formally presented to President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, Fayemi who stated that there was need to remove this election from personalities, noted that the election that we…
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Stop comparing our three years administration with PDP’s 16 years – Osinbajo
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday said comparing the three-year-old administration of the incumbent All Progressives Congress (AP) to the sixteen years administration of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was unfair. He said the fact that the opposition PDP had started assessing the present government even shortly after spending two years in office showed that “we…
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Democracy Day: Capital market operators laud Buhari administration
Capital market operators on Tuesday urged the federal government to focus more on infrastructure development to boost local employment and consolidate the achievements of the past three years. The operators stated this in separate interviews with newsmen in Lagos, while appraising the three years of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. Rasheed Yussuf, a former President of…
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South-Easterners occupying more positions in my administration than northerners – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said his administration favoured south easterners more than people from the northern region. The President stated that he gave the South-East zone four substantive ministers and can’t take any substantive decision on foreign policy and investments without the input of two of them. TheNewsGuru.com reports that the President met with…
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Fayose sponsoring IPOB, other agitation groups to discredit Buhari’s administration – APC
The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC has accused Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State of funding the Indigenous People of Biafa, IPOB and its leader, Nnamdi Kanu to discredit President Muhammadu’s Buhari’s administration. The Ekiti State chapter of the party, which made the accusation against Fayose said the governor was on a mission to plunge…
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Effective Local Government administration will subdue growing national disenchantment – Dogara
…Urges State Assemblies to endorse financial autonomy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara has said growing level of discontentment and disenchantment by the generality of Nigerians will be greatly reduced when local government systems work effectively. He added that there is a chance to meet up with the expectations of Nigerians as…