Tag: President
-
Buhari’s ‘greatest undoing’ as president are his spokespersons – PDP Governors
State Governors of the Peoples Democratic Party on Thursday said the current crop of presidential spokespersons “do not represent or position” the President in a proper manner. The Governors Forum, in a statement signed by its Director-General, Hon. C.I.D. Maduabum, was responding to a statement issued by presidential spokesperson Garba Shehu. Mr Shehu had been…
-
BREAKING: Former President dies at age 97
Zambia’s former President Dr. Kenneth Kaunda has passed away on Thursday. This is after he was admitted to the Maina Soko Military Hospital in Lusaka earlier this week. Kaunda became president of Zambia in 1964, when the southern African nation won its independence from Britain. He continued in power until 1991 and was among the…
-
Mustapha Isa returns as President, Guild of Editors
Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) on Monday night reelected Mustapha Isa as President to oversee the affairs of the guild for the next two years. Announcing the outcome of the results, the Chairman, Screening and Election Committee, Bonnie Iwuoha, said Ali M. Ali, was returned unopposed as the Deputy President, Kila Habibu Nuhu, was also…
-
Mali’s interim President, Prime Minister resign
Mali’s interim President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane tendered resignation. Agence France-Presse reported this on Wednesday, citing military and diplomatic sources. Late on Monday, a source told Sputnik that Malian military arrested the interim president and the prime minister and transported them to an army base near the capital of Bamako. Mali’s interim…
-
Ortom bombs again: ‘Buhari’s action, inaction shows he is only President of Fulani people’
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of working for the Fulani tribe to take over Nigeria. He made the allegation on Tuesday in reaction to the recent killing of residents allegedly by herdsmen in parts of the state. “What is happening now, to me, is very clear; Mr President is just…
-
2023: Orji Kalu dismisses prophetic utterances, says ‘I don’t want to be president but can take the offer’
Senator Orji Kalu has said he is not nurturing a 2023 presidential ambition but will not hesitate if considered for the number one public office in the country. “I am not having that kind of ambition. But if I am given, why not? I can take it.” the former Abia State governor said on Sunday…
-
Why I want to become Nigerian President – U.S. based Nwankwo
A U.S.-based Mechanical Engineer, Mr Godswill Nwankwo, has declared his intention to contest the seat of the country’s president in the 2023 election. Nwankwo made his intention known on Monday in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. He said that his intention was borne out of concerns to build…
-
Niger Republic’s Mohamed Bazoum sworn in as president after failed coup
Niger’s newly elected President Mohamed Bazoum has been sworn in, a democratic watershed overshadowed by armed groups’ violence and alleged coup bid two days ago. The inauguration on Friday marks the first-ever transition between elected presidents in Niger’s six decades of independence from France, a historic moment that has been widely praised. Mohamed Bazoum, sworn…
-
No politician will ignore opportunity of becoming President –Fayemi
Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State has averred that no serious politician will disregard the opportunity of becoming the President of Nigeria. Fayemi, said this on a Channel’s Televisions programme, ‘Hard Copy’, which was televised on Friday. Responding to a question lightheartedly, Fayemi, who has been endorsed for the Presidency by the Ekiti State House…
-
77-year-old Nguesso re-elected Congolese president, to continue 36-year rule
Denis Sassou Nguesso has been re-elected president of the Republic of the Congo with 88.57 percent of the vote, according to provisional results. TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that the 77-year-old has been in power for an accumulated 36 years, first taking the helm in 1979 and then again in 1997 after losing the country’s first multiparty…