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  • After spending two months abroad, Aisha Buhari returns to Abuja [+ Photos]

    The First Lady, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, returned to Abuja this morning two months after she left the country for the United Kingdom.

     

    The president’s wife announced her coming back to Nigeria at about 8.56pm last night while leaving London.

    TheNewsGuru had earlier published a report yesterday that the first lady that revealed on her Twitter handle, @AishaMBuhari, that Mrs. Modupe Oguntade, the wife of Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Retired Justice George Oguntade, was seeing her off.

    “Wife of the Nigerian Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Mrs Modupe Oguntade seeing me off. Thank you so much madam,” she tweeted.

    Recall that Aisha left Nigeria in August for Saudi Arabia for lesser hajj and from Saudi Arabia headed for the United Kingdom.

    While Aisha was in the United Kingdom for medical for over two months, her stay had generated a range of controversies at home particularly at the height of rumours that her husband, President Muhammadu Buhari had planned to marry 44-year old Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Ms Sadiya Umar Faruk, on Friday.

  • BREAKING: Finally, Aisha Buhari departs UK for Nigeria

    BREAKING: Finally, Aisha Buhari departs UK for Nigeria

    First Lady, Aisha Buhari has finally departed the United Kingdom for Nigeria amid ‘presidential wedding’ rumour.

    Wife of the Nigerian Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Mrs. Modupe Oguntade, saw her off.

    The First Lady gave the information via her verified Twitter handle on Saturday night:

    Mrs. Buhari had not been seen in public since she traveled for the Hajj last August.

    She was not in the country during the last Eid when the President hosted eminent Nigerians and other citizens in his country home of Daura.

    President Muhammadu Buhari was only photographed with his children who had celebrated the Muslim festival with him.

    While Aisha was absent from Nigeria’s public scene, the President was rumored to be planning to wed one of his ministers.

    As far as Nigerians are aware, the wedding did not happen, though the Presidency did not address the issue.

    Throughout Aisha’s absence since August, the Presidency did not tell Nigerians where the First Lady had been.

    Her Saturday evening announcement seemed to suggest that she was at least leaving the United Kingdom for Nigeria, though it could not be readily ascertained where the First Lady had been, and for what, precisely.

  • Rumoured marriage: Aisha Buhari unfazed, calls for urgent action to protect girl-child against abuse

    The First Lady, Aisha Buhari seems to be unmoved about the rumour that her husband, President Muhammadu Buhari is marrying a new wife to replace her. The embattled first lady rubbished the rumour when on Friday she called for urgent action to protect the girl child from abuses.

    Buhari in a tweet on Friday to commemorate the International Day of the Girl-Child in Abuja, stressed the need for parents to protect their children from all forms of violence and abuse.

    The theme of the 2019 celebration is Girl Force: ” Unscripted and Unstoppable”.

    NAN reports that the day was which declared by the United Nations, was first celebrated on Oct. 11, 2012.
    The observation supports more opportunity for girls and increases awareness of gender inequality faced by girls worldwide based upon their gender.

    The celebration of the day also “reflects the successful emergence of girls and young women as a distinct cohort in development policy, programming, campaigning and research.

    ” Today, I join millions of girls around the world to celebrate this year’s international day of the girl-child, the theme for this year’s celebration is “GirlForce: Unscripted and Unstoppable” she tweeted.
    She expressed appreciation on the progress made on the advocacy by women groups on the need to protect their folk against any forms of gender based violence.

    ” I am happy to note the progress that has been made in the area of activism by girls to protect their gender.

    ” I want to state that more needs to be done especially to address gender based violence which seems to be more pronounced recently and all hands must be on deck to achieve this.”

  • Aisha celebrates as rumours of Buhari marrying another wife spread

    Aisha celebrates as rumours of Buhari marrying another wife spread

    Nigeria’s First Lady Aisha Buhari on Friday joined millions of girls around the world to celebrate 2019’s international day of the girl child, even as rumours of President Muhammadu Buhari marrying another wife continues to spread across the nation.

    TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports rumours emerged from the Aso Rock that Buhari will be getting married in a very quiet ceremony to Sadia Umar Farouq, the current Minister for Humanitarian Affairs Disaster Management on Friday.

    This is following the continued absence of the current First Lady, Aisha who has been out of the Presidential Villa since her trip to Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom (UK).

    While sources at the Presidency has confirmed to DAILY POST that the news is fake, it has not stopped the rumours from spreading like wildfire.

    Joining in talking about the rumours, Reno Omokri, former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan believes that it could be true that Buhari is taking another wife to replace Aisha.

    In a series of tweets, Omokri stated, “2nd wife? Could that be why she has been in England all this time? Apparently, the second wife story is true.

    “What cant be confirmed is the date of the wedding fatiha. This man shouldn’t tempt his Creator. He just recovered from serious ill health and now he wants to add another yarinya! Second Term, Second Wife! Baba o!

    “Apparently, @THISDAYLIVE broke the story this Sunday, but few noticed. I didn’t know he had stamina like this. And he even gave the new yarinya post! I hope I am invited to the wedding Fatiha. A man who just recovered. Pray we dont hear stories that touch!

    “When he said he was “working hard”, we thought it was government work. We did not know it was, let us just say extra curricular activities. Ha! Hard worker! Baba I hail o. Remember what happened to your mentor, Abacha? We don’t want stories that touch

    “Queen Esther wants to take the place of Queen Vashti! We just hope that the incoming wife will not do what PEPT could not do o! We did not know that this was what he meant when he said #NextLevel! We pray this ‘hard work’ will not end in a London clinic!

    “.@PaulKagame is working hard to make Rwanda GREAT and somebody here is working hard to make Nigeria’s population GREATER. And he will he lying to us that he is “working hard” for us.’. No wonder. The man has been unusually excited these days. Bedroom power!”

    While First Lady Aisha did not touch on the rumours making the rounds in her statement to celebrate the 2019’s international day of the girl child, she expressed happiness in the progress being made in the area of activism by girls to protect their gender.

    The statement reads: “Today, I join millions of girls around the world to celebrate this year’s international day of the girl child, the theme for this year is “GirlForce: Unscripted and Unstoppable”.

    “I am happy to note the progress that has been made in the area of activism by girls to protect their gender. I want to state that more needs to be done especially to address gender based violence which seems to be more pronounced recently. All hands must be on deck to achieve this”.

    Meanwhile, a source in the Presidency has confirmed to TNG under the condition of anonymity that President Buhari was not contracting any new marriage in whatever definition.

    “It is fake news, ignore it. There is no wedding going on in Aso Villa, it is just one of the several mischievous schemes sponsored by Buhari’s critics who are trying to blackmail him because his wife is not in the country.

    When TNG monitored the report on social media, we learnt that different hashtags for the purported wedding has been trending between number one to five on Twitter since Thursday.

    #BUSA19, #BUSA2019, #TheWedding and Villa are some of the keywords that have been used loosely on Twitter to describe the purported wedding.

    While the presidency is yet to officially address the issue, many Nigerians have since joined the conversation with most of them making fun of it.

    https://twitter.com/AkinbodeTa/status/1182528319411163137?s=19

     

     

  • ‘Abandonment’ of Villa: Aisha Buhari breaks silence

    Nigeria’s First Lady Aisha Buhari, who has been in hibernation for weeks has broken her silence, tweeting for the first time, since August.

    In a double tweet on Nigeria’s 59th Independence Day, she stated her resolve to do to touch more lives through her Aisha Buhari Foundation and Future Assured Programs.

    She also called on more privileged Nigerians, the private sector and NGO’s to do more in the areas of education, health, empowerment and protection of women and children.

    Recall that there had been speculations about her whereabouts since she was last seen in public in June 2019.

    She left Nigeria in August for Hajj and has not returned home in Abuja. Some reports said she is in London.

    But Aso Rock said her disappearance from public space is nothing to worry about.

    Read her tweets below:

  • Reduce your talks, join politics, Buhari’s wife tells Nigerian women

    First Lady of Nigeria, Mrs Aisha Buhari, on Thursday said it was high time women stopped talking and moved into action to curb women disparity in politics.

    Buhari who was represented by Mrs Pauline Tallen, Former Deputy Governor, of Plateau, made the call at a two-day National Conference on Women’s political Participation in Nigeria: Post-2019 General Elections.

    She commended women who made an attempt to contest in the last elections although most of them were denied against the wishes of the electorate.

    “It is a sad situation, it is heart breaking, but we must learn to do thing differently; its high time we reduced the talking and moved into action.

    “It is time for action and we are calling with a big and loud voice to all our political parties and INEC chairman to do what their counterparts are doing in other countries by promoting women.

    “We have very capably women that can contest any position in Nigeria; we are in a man’s world we can only succeed if we have the support of the men.”

    Buhari said that on her part, she was persisting on the president to do something different by giving women a quota system just like in other climes.

    She said that was how other women were succeeding in other countries adding that an amendment of the electoral law would also give women an edge.

    She said that statistics on women participation in politics in Nigeria was heartbreaking adding that “we must rethink and do everything possible that will earn us the name of being the giant of Africa.”

    Earlier, Mrs Ebere Ifendu, President, Women in Politics said that a record of 2,970 women contested elections into different positions in the 2019 general elections but only 67 got elected across the nation.

    Ifendu said that a breakdown of the elected members show that no women was elected as president, vice president or governor while only seven were elected to the senate.

    She said that 12 were elected to the House of Representatives and 44 to the State Assemblies with about 11 states without a female member.

    She said that Nigerian women went to the elections with high expectations but the overall level of representation of women in politics remained a cause for concern as the number elected continued to dwindle.

    Ms Comfort Lamptey, UN Women Representative to Nigeria and ECOWAS said the conference was aimed at examining the 2019 elections in terms of women’s participation.

    Lamptey said the conference would also look at the lessons learnt from the 2019 elections, approaches adopted by stakeholders to support women and outline an action plan for a robust engagement ahead of 2023.

    She said that UNwomen would continue to support Nigeria to expand the political space for women because it was necessary to ensure attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and build inclusive and lasting democracy.

    Dr Hadiza Balarabe, Deputy Governor Kaduna state, urged women not to give up but support each other by being their ‘sisters’ keeper to win elections.

    Balarabe also urged them to build their capacity in politics and all other walks of life because it would help them greatly as in other smaller countries women were doing well.

    Said she: “Nigeria must do it; other smaller countries should learn from us and us from them.”

    The conference was organised with support from UNwomen, the European Centre for Electoral Support (ECES) Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), Nigeria Women’s Trust Fund and Women in Politics.

  • Parade: Your performance will endear ladies to join military —-Aisha Buhari

    Parade: Your performance will endear ladies to join military —-Aisha Buhari

    The First Lady, Mrs Aisha Buhari, said the excellent display by female military and Police officers during the June 12 democracy day parade would endear many young ladies to join the military.

    Buhari said this on Sunday when she hosted the female participants during the maiden edition of June 12 democracy day parade at the Banquet hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

    “Let me say you have won the hearts of Nigerians including mine. You have also endeared many young ladies and even men to join the military service and contribute in the protection of our dear nation.

    “As a champion for all Nigerian women, I am quick to note and appreciate women who have excelled in their different areas of specialisation and we need more women as role models to inspire the younger ones,” she said.

    The first lady commended the high sense of commitment, patriotism, professionalism and dedication exhibited by the officers during the parade.

    She said the discipline and focus in which the officers carried out the assignment was an indication of their loyalty to their Nation.

    “This is important knowing that some of you are wives and mothers who have broken the gender barriers to excel in what is generally believed to be a man’s world.

    “As a champion for Nigerian women, I am quick to note and appreciate women who have excelled in their different areas of specialisation,” she said.

    The first lady also commended the commander, Guards Brigade for ensuring excellent performance exhibited by the Officers during the parade.

    In his response, the Commander, Guards Brigade Brig Gen. Umar Musa, expressed appreciation to the first lady for appreciating the gallant display by the officers.

    Musa said that the gesture was unprecendented and will spur the officers to do more in discharging their task.

    On his part, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation Mr Boss Mustapha, urged the female Military and Police officers to use the event as a morale booster to contribute towards nation building.

  • Aisha Buhari now First Lady, drops Wife of the President title

    Aisha Buhari has dropped the title ‘Wife of the President’ that she adopted in 2015.She now wants to be called First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, with immediate effect.

    She made the title change on Thursday night at the presentation of awards to the former and current wives of Governors of the 36 states.The event held at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

    She said her new title would take effect immediately in order to also resolve the issue of the title of wives of governors.

    “When my husband was elected newly I personally chose to be called the wife of the President.

    “But, I realised that it causes confusion from the state as to whether the wives of state governors are to be addressed as the first ladies or wives of the governors.

    “So, forgive me for confusing you from the beginning, but now I chose to be called the first lady,” she said.

  • Aisha Buhari adopts title of First Lady

    The wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari on Thursday announced her decision to be addressed as the First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

    She said this would take effect immediately in order to also resolve the issue of the title of wives of governors.

    Buhari disclosed her new official title at the presentation of awards to the former and current wives of Governors of the 36 states.

    The event held at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

    “When my husband was elected newly I personally chose to be called the wife of the President.

    “But, I realised that it causes confusion from the state as to whether the wives of state governors are to be addressed as the first ladies or wives of the governors.

    “So, forgive me for confusing you from the beginning, but now I chose to be called the first lady,” she said.

  • Obasanjo to Aisha Buhari: Engage your hubby in ‘pillow talk’

    Obasanjo to Aisha Buhari: Engage your hubby in ‘pillow talk’

    Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has commended Aisha Buhari for speaking out on Nigeria’s problems, but he said she needs to do more by engaging in pillow talk with her husband.

    According to Obasanjo, Aisha should engage President Buhari in ‘pillow talk’, so that he could effectively address Nigeria’s problems.

    Obasanjo, an unrelenting critic of the Buhari administration spoke in Abeokuta on Monday when he met a delegation of Penpushing Media, who visited him at his Penthouse in the Ogun State Capital.

    “It is nice that the President’s wife is talking, I think she did well, and maybe she should also have a pillow talk with the President. I believe every Nigerian family, individual, group is entitled to legitimate livelihood. It is the responsibility of all to make sure we have a dignified life. That should be our aim collectively,” Obasanjo reportedly said.

    Aisha has in recent weeks been critical of some of the programmes of the Buhari administration. Twice, she attacked the Social Intervention Programme, which she claimed had not reached the poor women of Adamawa and Katsina.

    However, the SIP minders had educated her about the reach of the programme and the beneficiaries in the states she mentioned.

    Penpushing further reported that Obasanjo, canvassed for more advocacy and sensitization to get the desired change in the country, adding that the media also has to play crucial role in the mission to turn the country around for better.

    The former President emphasised that advocacy would raise awareness, “and we have to put all things on the table to address these problems. Mind you, we have to be sincere and genuine with ourselves’.

    The Chairman Editorial Board of Penpushing Media, Mrs Olufunke Fadugba said the visit was to intimate the former President with the program of events for the 3rd anniversary lecture of the organization scheduled to hold July 19.