2023 Presidency: Shettima reveals personalities that will decide APC zoning

Former Borno State Governor, Senator Kashim Shettima, has said that it is too early for the All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders, to talk about which region of the country will be given the party’s presidential slot in 2023. Shettima stated that President Muhammadu Buhari, the APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and other leaders of […]

The man from Katsina

I remember decades ago reading Adaora Lily Ulasi’s work, Many Thing You No Understand, when I read the work, who would have thought about the strange happenings in my nation Nigeria, Adaora who passed on in 2016 also wrote Many Thing Begin for Change, and The Man from Sagamu Let me say that as we […]

Improved Nigeria-South Africa Relations Will Quicken African Development – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed optimism that improvement in relations between Nigeria and South Africa will speed up the process of development on the African continent. Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu who disclosed the development in a statement obtained by The News Chronicle, said the President made the remark while […]

Buhari’s refusal to sack service chiefs is illegal – Shekarau

The senator representing Kano central, Ibrahim Shekarau, has said President Muhammadu Buhari is breaking the law, by keeping the service chiefs beyond their years of service. There have been fresh calls for Buhari to sack the service chiefs amid growing insecurity across the country. Speaking on a Television programme on Thursday, Shekarau said the service […]

Message From The Dead Borno Farmers

That the slain Borno farmers did not get military clearance is an inconvenient truth, but the real error of judgement was taking the government at its word. In his inaugural speech on May 29, 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the military chiefs – the same military chiefs there today – to relocate to the Northeast, […]

Buhari unveils 5-point job creation agenda

President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja reiterated his commitment to creating more jobs, with particular focus on enabling the private sector, targeting more youthful population by streamlining priority on agriculture, arts, entertainment, mining and Information Technology. Speaking at a Presidential Parley with the Participants of Senior Executive Course 42 of the National Institute for Policy […]

Why We Want Buhari to Step Aside Like Babangida, By Northern Elders

Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has advanced reasons why the group wants President Muhammadu Buhari to step aside like former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida. The obviously disappointed Northern elders are citing worsening insecurity and looming famine in the country. The lingering June 12, 1993 election crisis led to the resignation of Babangida in August 1993. […]

Senate urges Buhari to sack service chiefs as Reps plan to summon President over insecurity

The Senate has advised that President Muhammadu Buhari should begin the replacement of service chiefs following the killing of 43 farmers. The Senate President, Ahmed Lawan told Buhari to immediately restructure the country’s security architecture in order to fight against insurgents and secure lives of citizens. Lawan said: “I Urge the President of Federal Republic […]

Garba Shehu reacts to backlash over comments on slain Borno farmers

Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, on Monday reacted to the backlash he received over his comment on Boko Haram’s killing of rice farmers in Borno State. Shehu had said the murdered farmers never got clearance from the military to go out farming. Speaking with BBC Hausa, Garba had said […]

APC Has Turned Buhari into a Lame Duck President – PDP

Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party has accused the ruling All Progress Congress of turning President Muhammadu Buhari into a lame-duck president, “given the manifest failure of his administration in all sectors of national life”. The PDP in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said the “frenzy by the APC […]