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Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has approved the continuous use of the old N200 as legal tender till April 10. The President made this known on Thursday morning during an address to Nigerians. See the full text below: My Dear Compatriots, I have found it necessary to address you today, on the state of the nation […]
Continue ReadingIt was the exceptionally witty and satirical Senator Shehu Sani who first pointed out that the recoloring of the naira and the deathly, crippling scarcity that has come in its wake only a few days to the general election are akin to burning the entire forest while hunting down a rat. Many people missed the […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, has approved the establishment of a Presidential Transition Council (PTC) to oversee the 2023 transition programme. As Buhari signed Executive Order No.14 of 2023 on the Facilitation and Management of Presidential Transitions, a key feature of the order is the institutionalisation of a legal framework that would enable a seamless transition […]
Continue ReadingA High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria, has restrained the President, Muhammadu Buhari, CBN, its Governor Godwin Emefiele and 27 commercial banks from suspending, stopping, extending or interfering with the currency swap terminal date. The order was handed down on Monday by Justice E. Enenche following an application by four political parties. […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has assured all Nigerians that the scarcity of cash will soon be a thing of the past. In a post shared on his Twitter handle on Friday February 3 afternoon, President Buhari assured Nigerians of significant improvements between now and February 10. See his tweet below. His post:
Continue ReadingIt was always obvious to keen, disinterested observers that Bola Tinubu’s gamble in helping Buhari to ascend to power won’t pay off in the end; that his opportunistic political love affair with Buhari won’t be requited; and that the brittle, delicately thin thread that held their relational dynamic would snap sooner or later. I wrote […]
Continue ReadingNigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari, on Saturday, reiterated his earlier position that there was no going back on the naira redesign project and ruled out the extension of the January 31 deadline for the old N1,000, N500 and N200 to cease from being legal tender. The President’s position was supported by the Central Bank of Nigeria, […]
Continue ReadingNigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari has revealed that he joined the Nigerian army where he retired as a Major General, to escape the pressure of getting married. The President revealed this during a visit to the Emir of Daura, Faruk Faruk, after inaugurating two roads in Katsina state. Presidential aide, Femi Adesina, further revealed that Buhari […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, has described the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Rev. Matthew Hassan Kukah, as a vigorous fighter. The fiery cleric was among the executives of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria who paid a visit to the President at the State House in Abuja, on Wednesday. The visit came weeks after Kukah, […]
Continue ReadingOn January 1, the former president of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, published a letter addressed to the Nigerian youth. In that letter, he said a number of things, one of which was that the presidency of Major General Muhammadu Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) has been catastrophic. The letter read inter alia: “The last seven and a half […]
Continue ReadingNigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari, in his Christmas greetings and message to Nigerians said, there are better days ahead and that those seeking to disrupt Nigeria’s peace had long lost the battle. While celebrating with Christians in this season to mark the birth of Jesus, Buhari said citizens must never lose sight of the symbiotic relationship […]
Continue ReadingIn a documentary played at a private dinner organised by his family and close associates to mark his 80th birthday on Friday night at the State House Banquet Hall, Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari, has revealed that he lost two of his children to sickle cell. The president said, despite so much effort on his part […]
Continue ReadingMuhammadu Buhari started his presidency with “I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody.” Will he end as a nobody’s man? Sometimes, and for some, it is gracious to maintain one’s lane, listen to your own vision, single, unattached. French statesman, Charles de Gaulle, who holds the copyright of “I am a man who belongs to […]
Continue ReadingNigerians in the United States came together on Saturday morning, to wish the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari a happy birthday, as he turns 80 today, December 17. President Buhari was all smiles as they sang Happy birthday song to him. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama; Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, […]
Continue ReadingNigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday afternoon departed Katsina State for Washington DC to attend US-Africa Leader’s Summit scheduled to hold on December 13 and 15. The summit which is at the instance of US President Joe Biden seeks to work with “African governments, civil society, diaspora communities across the United States, and the private sector […]
Continue ReadingYou may accuse President Muhammadu Buhari of many things but not flippancy. He is a man who rarely speaks and on the few occasions he does, he picks his words. So, when a man like that concludes a prepared text at a public ceremony and then adds that he has a personal experience to share […]
Continue ReadingAny time officials (and defenders) of the Muhammadu Buhari regime want to prove that he has performed well in office, they reel out projects executed with loans that have mortgaged the future of every Nigerian for years to come. They show roads and bridges and the like as evidence of his superlative performance. In October […]
Continue ReadingNigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari has approved an upward review of the salary and welfare scheme for Nigerian judicial officers. This was disclosed on Friday, November 18, at the inauguration of Dr. Nabo Graham Douglas Campus of the Nigerian Law School in Port Harcourt built by the Governor Nyesom Wike administration. Buhari, who was represented at […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has arrived London, UK, for his routine medical check-up. Recall that his aide, Femi Adesina, who shared news of the trip, said the Nigerian leader is expected back to the country in second week of November. In the video shared online, President Buhari was seen getting off an airplane before entering […]
Continue ReadingThe truths of history often reveal themselves to us by a ruse. A president who in 2015 happened on us on a mantra of ‘Change’ is today the object and embodiment of a clamour for decisive urgent change. Call him Mr. Change and pronounce it anyway you like, something is clearly undeniable. Mr. Buhari has […]
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