President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday met behind closed doors with service chiefs at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
It was one of the President’s first major engagement since returning to Abuja on Saturday after 10-day working holiday in London.
The meeting, which was held at the President’s office stated around 11.27a.m
It was still in progress at the time of filing this report.
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The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Monday met behind closed doors with the Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The meeting came at a time the ruling All Progressives Congress and some senators elected on its platform are insisting that the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, must vacate his seat having defected to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party.
It also came as the Presidency continued to appeal to the National Assembly to cut short its ongoing vacation in order to attend to the budget of the Independent National Electoral Commission and other issues of national importance currently before the federal lawmakers.
Lawan was accompanied to the meeting by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Ita Enang.
The meeting was still ongoing at the time of filing this report.
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday met behind closed doors with security chiefs.
The meeting started around 10.30am at the President’s office.
It is expected to discuss security challenges facing the nation.
The meeting will be the last security meeting before President Buhari proceeds on 10-day working holiday on Friday.
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday night met with senators of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
The meeting held inside the conference room in the office of the wife of the president at the State House villa, Abuja.
The meeting is coming a day after 15 senators dumped the party for the opposition.
About 42 Senators are attending the meeting with Mr Buhari, which is expected to discuss Tuesday’s defections.
Senate President Bukola Saraki, who is still a member of the APC is, however, not attending the meeting.
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The embattled Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, is currently in a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja.
Recall that Adeosun has been in the eye of the storm after a report by Premium Times that she submitted a fake NYSC exemption certificate for screening as a ministerial nominee.
The minister arrived the presidential villa at about 2:30 p.m. in company of the pastor of Latter Rain Assembly, Tunde Bakare.
Bakare, however, later told journalists that “Our meeting is not related, we met here”.
The finance minister is still in the president’s office as at the time of filing this report.
The minister has not commented publicly on the findings.
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Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday held a traditional engagement of his daughter, Damilola, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
However, State House correspondents were not allowed to cover the reception which was held at the old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa.
Newsmen were told that Osinbajo and the groom’s family opted for a low-keyed event.
The ceremony started with a traditional marriage at Osinbajo’s Aguda House official residence.
Damilola is getting married to Oluseun Bakare.
The reception was attended by the chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun and some state governors among others.
Oyegun also wrote a special congratulatory letter to the vice president, his wife and the intending couple.
The letter reads: “My wife, Victoria and I, extend very hearty congratulations to you and your wife, Her Excellency, Dolapo Osinbajo, on the joyful news of the wedding of your daughter Oluwadamilola to Oluseun Bakare.
“We wish the young couple the very best blessings of married life.
“As proud parents of Oluwadamilola, we wish to celebrate and credit you for such a wonderful and Christian upbringing that produced such an amazing bride.
“May the good Lord continue to lead your way and bless your family.”
The church wedding is scheduled to take place at the National Christian Centre, Abuja, on Saturday.
The reception for guests will be held at the old Banquet Hall thereafter.
President Muhammadu Buhari and the visiting United States Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, are currently meeting.
The meeting is holding behind closed doors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Tillerson arrived for the meeting at about a few minutes after 4pm.
He is expected to brief journalists after the meeting.
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Senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani on Saturday condemned some state governors for embarking on loyalty visits to President Muhammadu Buhari in Aso Rock at the expense of the security of lives and properties of residents in their respective states.
The outspoken lawmaker therefore urged President Buhari to henceforth ban the governors from embarking on such visits.
Sani made this known in a statement on Saturday.
His comments came as some state governors are being criticised for visiting Aso Villa even in the midst of violent crisis rocking their states.
Recall that some some APC governors also on Friday stormed the Daura home of President Buhari on a ‘solidarity visit’.
Sani said the new ‘political culture’ of governors visiting the villa, while their states are in crisis, is political and should be banned.
“The new sycophantic political culture of Governors leaving their duty posts, in their respective states, almost on a daily basis to climb the Rock of Aso in order to pledge loyalty, leave their citizens in the hands of moribund and powerless deputy governors and at the mercy of well-armed killers.
“President Buhari must ban state Governors from the daily ritual of visiting the villa while their homes burn,” he said.
Sani also lashed at northern leaders for their ‘cowardice’ in the face of the crisis.
“The silence and cowardice of the Northern political elites to the mass killings going on in the North is out of fear that they can be labelled or blackmailed as being anti Government,” he said.
He bemoaned the current security situation in the country, ”where lives are no longer cherished.”
“We have become a nation in perpetual mourning and ceaseless funeral mass. In Nigeria today, blood is becoming cheaper than water and petrol. The most tragic of all tragedies is when tragedy becomes a routine in our daily lives.”
President Muhammadu Buhari and the governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, are currently meeting inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
This is the first time the two leaders will meet since the recent killings recorded in the state.
The governor arrived the Presidential Villa at 10:50 am and was led straight to the President’s office.
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Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo; a former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retd.); a former Head of Interim National Government, Ernest Shonekan; and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara , are among dignitaries currently attending the 2017 Christmas Praise Concert inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, is also attending the event holding inside the old Banquet Hall.
Others present are members of the Federal Executive Council as well as the wife of the Vice-President, Dolapo.
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