Tag: Femi Adesina
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Insecurity criticism: ‘Conglomeration of fake elders’ – Presidency attacks Northern elders
The Presidency has launched an attack on the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), insisting that the organization is a General without a troop. Recall that in a statement, on Sunday, signed by its Chairman, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, NEF said that the insecurity in some northern states of the country was an indication that President Muhammadu Buhari…
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Day of Judgment for Rauf Aregbesola, By Femi Adesina
By Femi Adesina Wednesday June 10, 2020, was ‘judgment day’ for Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola. Incidentally, the day had broken with stories of denials of rift between him and his political mentor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former two-term Governor of Lagos State, and National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC). The APC had…
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We got ‘insider’ who leaked Buhari’s COVID-19 speech – FG
Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Femi Adesina, has disclosed the Presidency has caught up with an insider who leaked the President’s speech on Monday. Adesina, in his weekly column “From The Inside” described the person responsible for the leak as an “enemy of the state.” A draft copy of the…
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Femi Adesina writes on Buhari’s leaked Covid-19 nationwide address
You have possibly watched the 1998 action-thriller film with the above title, starring Will Smith. It was the box office hit story about a group of people plotting to kill an American Congressman, and the tape of the plot was discovered. Well, an Enemy of the State struck in Nigeria on Monday, but this time,…
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Abba Kyari appeared in my dream to say goodbye, By Femi Adesina
By FEMI ADESINA He told us he would be back at his desk soon. I believed it. But now, it would never happen. Not tomorrow, not next week, not forever. Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari, has gone the way of all flesh. Our last contact was on Friday, March 20, 2020.President…
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BREAKING: Buhari signs COVID-19 Regulations 2020
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Regulations 2020, declaring COVID-19 a dangerous infectious disease. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity made this known in a statement on Monday. The statement reads: “in exercise of the powers conferred on him by Sections 2, 3 and…
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FG not giving Nigerians with BVN N30,000 -Adesina
Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina has discredited report that Nigerians with bank verification number (BVN) will be given N30,000 as relief fund. The report, which went viral on Friday, said Adesina issued a statement to that effect. The said amount was to help Nigerians “stock up their home during the stay-at-home order by the…
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BREAKING news from Aso Villa, By Femi Adesina
By Femi Adesina Quite a challenging week it has been for Nigeria, and, indeed, the rest of the world. Except perhaps in China only, where the affliction started from, figures of Coronavirus infections continue to mount in other parts of the world. Italy and Spain have been particularly badly hit. But as the world reels…
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Benue Saga: President Buhari will never be part of unconstitutional act – Presidency
The Presidency has condemned attempts in some quarters to drag the name of President Muhammadu Buhari into the on-going political saga in Benue State House of Assembly. Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday, dissociated the president from the developments. Adesina described…