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  • Tinubu speaks on health condition from London

    Tinubu speaks on health condition from London

    National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has stated that he is perfectly well.

    TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that Tinubu spoke on Friday when he received members of the House of Representatives northern caucus in London.

    He spoke after months of controversies over his health condition.

    His media and allies have insisted he remains in perfect shape.

    The former Lagos Governor asserted he is healthy but only undergoing physiotherapy in London.

    Tinubu, addressing the Reps’ northern caucus said: “Because of God and people like you, I am well.

    “It is just the physio (physiotherapy) that is gruesome.”

    TNG reports that high profile Nigerians including President Muhammadu Buhari, Governors Sanwo-Olu (Lagos), Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti), Dapo Abiodun (Ogun), Abdullahi Ganduje (Kano) and several federal and state lawmakers have paid a courtesy call on the politician in London.

  • BREAKING: Buhari returns to Nigeria after trip to London

    BREAKING: Buhari returns to Nigeria after trip to London

    President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja after joining world leaders in making firm commitment to increase funding for education sector at the recent Global Education Summit in London, United Kingdom.

    The Nigerian leader also used the opportunity of the trip to also spend a few days for his medical check-up.

    The Global Education Summit, co-hosted by British Prime Minister, Mr Boris Johnson, and President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, successfully generated about four billion dollars out of the targeted five billion dollars for the transformation of the education sector in low income countries, including Nigeria.

    Buhari, who actively participated in the activities of the summit, appeared on a panel of discussants with a live audience alongside his counterparts from other African countries, including President Kenyatta, President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana, President Faure Eyadema of Togo and President Lazarus Chakwera of Malawi.

    The summit focused on topical issues including Education’s Reset – Learning from COVID; Transforming the Child’s Learning Journey; Gender Equality in and Through Education; Ripple Effect – Education’s Impact on Sustainability, and Financing for Impact – Volume, Equity, Efficiency.

    At the summit, Buhari pledged to increase the budget for the education sector in Nigeria by as much as 50 per cent over the next two years.

    The Nigerian leader stated: “We commit to progressively increase our annual domestic education expenditure by 50 per cent over the next two years and up to 100 per cent by 2025 beyond the 20 per cent global benchmark.”

    The president also held bilateral meetings with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Baroness Patricia Scotland, at the sidelines of the Global Education Summit.

    Buhari and Boris Johnson, during the bilateral talks appraised the war against different forms of terrorism in Nigeria, and agreed that the judicial process be allowed to run its course.

    Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, in a statement, quoted the two leaders saying it was important that ”the judicial process runs without interference, no matter who was involved”.

    He said Buhari also briefed the Prime Minister on Nigeria’s power needs and efforts being made, as well as initiatives geared at achieving food security.

    The president also reviewed the security situation in the different regions of the country, while Johnson pledged Britain’s preparedness to lend a helping hand.

    “We are available to help,” Adesina quoted the British PM as saying.

    ”The two leaders equally discussed how to increase trade between the two countries, develop solar and wind power, leadership of the Commonwealth going forward and other matters of mutual interest,” Adesina added.

    During the bilateral meeting with the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Baroness Patricia Scotland, Buhari said Nigeria would be glad to receive support from the Commonwealth in diverse areas of needs and challenges.

    The president said Nigeria was doing a lot to address food security through heavy investment in agriculture, and tackle security issues confronting the country in different regions.

    He, therefore, welcomed the offer of assistance by the Commonwealth scribe.

    Baroness Scotland said the Commonwealth had developed programmes on agribusiness, adding value to agriculture products for young people to get involved, climate change, criminal justice reforms, police reforms and security.

    She, therefore, invited Nigeria to benefit from technical assistance that could be provided.

    She added that since Buhari was the Champion for Anti-Corruption in Africa, the Commonwealth had developed anti-corruption benchmark tools, and would like to work with Nigeria in both public and private sectors.

    Other areas the Commonwealth could assist, according to Baroness Scotland, include countering violent extremism, trade and modalities to implement the African Continental Free Trade Agreement

    Before departing London, Buhari was reported to have on Thursday visited former Lagos State governor and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, who is believed to be on medical trip to London.

    Those at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja to welcome the president included the President’s Chief of Staff, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari; Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Muhammad Bello, security chiefs as well as some presidential aides.

  • COVID-19 ravages Nigeria High Commission in London, shuts down

    COVID-19 ravages Nigeria High Commission in London, shuts down

    The Nigeria High Commission in London has shutdown its operation for 10 days after two of its officials tested positive for COVID-19.

    According to the Commission, one of the officials returned positive after the test was administered on him when he went for a meeting at the Home office.

    As a result, the Mission embarked on testing all officials after which another official tested positive.

    Announcing the decision to shutdown operations, the Mission in a statement said the move is to check the spread by ensuring that those who were in contact with the affected persons observe the mandatory isolation.

    It reads, “This afternoon the Head of Immigration Section and two other officials went for a meeting at the Home Office.

    “At the entrance, Covid test was administered on them and one of them tested positive to Covid-19. The affected officer immediately isolated while the other officials, who tested negative will also isolate for the next 10 days.

    “In response to the challenge, the Mission embarked on testing all officials of the Mission, after which another official of the Mission tested positive.

    “In line with Covid-19 regulation and the need to adhere to the rules and regulation of the host country, the Mission will close down for the next 10 days, in order to observe the mandatory isolation of those who were in contact with the affected officials.

    “While the High Commission regrets any inconvenience that this may have caused, we solicit the cooperation of the general public.”

  • BREAKING: Buhari visits Tinubu in London [Photos]

    BREAKING: Buhari visits Tinubu in London [Photos]

    Emman Ovuakporie

    President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday visited former Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu in his London home.

    Presidential aide, Bashir Ahmad confirmed the visit.

    In the images of the visit which was shared, both Buhari and Tinubu were seen in discussions. In another image, Tinubu was seen holding a walking stick.

    TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader flew out of the country few weeks back. He was reportedly sick and hospitalised but Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu last week rubbished the rumour when he paid a courtesy visit to the ex-governor in London saying he was ‘well and healthy’.

  • Why I visited Tinubu in London – Sanwo-Olu

    Why I visited Tinubu in London – Sanwo-Olu

    Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has declared National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is well and healthy.

    Sanwo-Olu spoke on the sidelines after inaugurating 102 compactor trucks and 100 double dino bins acquired by the Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA).

    The Governor, who visited Tinubu in London, said: “My going to see our leader was really around the rumours flying around about him.

    “He is well and healthy. We discussed happening in our party and country at large. All is well with him as I saw myself and there is nothing to worry about.”

    TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that there had been multiple media reports of that the former Lagos governor was sick and on admission at an undisclosed hospital in London.

    However, his spokesman, Tunde Raman debunked the claims saying his principal is neither sick nor on admission at a London hospital. He however confirmed that the politician was out of the country and will return home soon.

  • PDP mocks Buhari for hiding under Education Summit which is virtual to secretly’ visit his doctors in London

    PDP mocks Buhari for hiding under Education Summit which is virtual to secretly’ visit his doctors in London

    The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it is appalling that President Muhammadu Buhari could deploy the nation’s resources to travel to London for the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025 when the meeting is scheduled to be virtual.

    The PDP also berated the Buhari Presidency for “trying to hide his private appointment with his doctors under the virtual meeting apparently in a bid to launder his consistent failure to honour his pre-2015 campaign promise not to embark on medical tourism, if elected President”.

    In a communique by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party insisted that President Buhari has no justification to travel to far-away London since the meeting is a virtual meeting or for a medical checkup, which he could have done at home.

    While claiming that the present administration has wrecked the nation’s healthcare system, the PDP said the president’s action has confirmed the stand by the majority of Nigerians that “he is wasteful, thinks only about himself and cares less about millions of citizens, who do not have access to foreign medical treatment, but who are dying on a daily basis because the government has crippled our health sector”.

    According to the PDP, it is disheartening that while Mr. President is spending taxpayers’ money relishing the expertise of London doctors and the luxury of medical facilities in that country, millions of Nigerians are dying in decrepit medical facilities at home.

    “Moreover, is it not atrocious that Mr. President is more interested in going to London for a virtual education summit when hundreds of students, who ought to be beneficiaries of the meeting, are languishing in kidnappers’ dens, with the Buhari administration taking no concrete steps to rescue them and end incessant abduction of students in Nigeria?”‘ the communique read in part.

    The PDP was of the opinion that there is no way history will be kind with President Buhari, as he has always wished if he continues in his manner of thinking only about his needs at the expense of the generality of Nigerians.

    The party however urged Nigerians not to resign to despondency “in the face of such incompetent, selfish, and insensitive” Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration, but to remain resilient in rallying on the platform of the PDP to rescue the nation from misrule.

  • Buhari departs to London for medical check, summit

    Buhari departs to London for medical check, summit

    President Muhammadu Buhari will today leave Abuja for London to see his doctors and participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education 2021-2025.

    This was contained in a statement by the president’s media adviser, Femi Adesina.

    He is expected to be back by the second week of August 2021.

    The statement read, “President Muhammadu Buhari will today Monday July 26, 2021, travel to the United Kingdom to participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025.

    “The Summit, which will be co-hosted by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, and the President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, will bring together Heads of State and Government as well as stakeholders and youth leaders, and provide a platform for partners to chart a way forward towards transforming education systems in partner countries, through exchange of best practices.

    “It will also offer the opportunity for leaders to make 5-year pledges to support GPE’s work to help transform education systems in up to 90 countries and territories.

    “Deliberations at the Summit will focus on: The Power of Education –A Conversation between Global Champions; Transforming Education for Girls; Financing for Impact and Recovery and; What Now? Priorities for Transforming Education in the Coming Five Years, among others.

    “President Buhari will also hold a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
    After the Summit, the President will spend a few days for an earlier scheduled medical check-up. He is due back by second week of August, 2021.

    “The President will be accompanied by Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, Minister of State Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, National Security Adviser, Maj. Gen. Babagana Monguno (rtd) and Director General of National Intelligence Agency, Amb. Ahmed Rufai Abubakar.”

  • BREAKING: Buhari postpones medical trip to London

    BREAKING: Buhari postpones medical trip to London

    President Muhammadu Buhari has postponed his going to London for medical follow-up.

    This is according to a statement by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity on Friday.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports President Buhari was due to travel out of Nigeria on Friday.

    He was billed to return back to the country during the second week of July, 2021.

    Adesina in his statement on Friday did not give any reason why the President’s medical trip was postponed.

    The media aide, however, stated that a new date will be communicated for the President’s trip.

    “The medical follow-up visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to United Kingdom earlier scheduled for today, Friday, June 25, 2021, has been postponed.

    “A new date will be announced in due course,” the statement reads.

  • Buhari departs for London for medical follow-up Friday

    Buhari departs for London for medical follow-up Friday

    President Muhammadu Buhari will proceed to London, the United Kingdom on June 25, for a scheduled medical follow-up.

    Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s spokesman confirmed this in a statement in Abuja on Thursday.

    “He is due back in the country during the second week of July, 2021,’’ the presidential aide stated.

    The president returned from his previous medical trip to London in April.