Only legacy left for Buhari, INEC’s Yakubu is to conduct credible election in 2023 —Tambuwal
As the 2023 election approaches, Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto state has said that the only legacy left for President Muhammadu Buhari was to emulate former President Jonathan by conducting a free, fair and credible election in 2023.
Nigeria has never been this difficult — Muslim leaders lament
Nigerians particularly Muslims in the Northern region have never found themselves in a very difficult situation like now, the leadership of the Supreme Council for Shariah in Nigeria ( SCSN ) has said.
Your claim of bringing peace to South-South is untenable, untrue — Clark replies Buhari
FORMER Federal Commissioner for information and South-South leader, Chief Edwin Clark has taken a swipe at President Muhammadu Buhari on his position on the Niger Delta, saying that the President’s claim of bringing peace to the geopolitical zone, is untenable, untrue and without foundation.
Chairmanship: How my emergence’ll end internal crises in APC – Sen Musa
A leading national chairmanship aspirant of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the forthcoming national convention, Senator Sani Musa, has said that his leadership of the party will bring an end to internal crisis in the party. The lawmaker representing Niger East Senatorial district of Niger State in the Senate said he would actualise […]
Buhari pledges equity, fairness to Itsekiris
By Johnbosco Agbakwuru – Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged a fair deal to the Itsekiri people of Delta State, while also extolling the patriotism of His Royal Majesty, Tsola Emiko, Ogiame Atuwatse III, the Olu of Warri Kingdom. The President spoke at State House, Abuja while receiving the monarch and some of his chiefs. […]
Rice ‘pyramids’: Buhari’s misguided glorification of peasant farming
SINCE 2018, Nigeria has earned the moniker: “poverty capital of the world”. The United Nations also named Nigeria among the six countries in the world where hunger is most rife. Which makes it strange that a Nigerian government could indulge in the utter charade of exhibiting “the world’s largest rice pyramids”?
ACF members ‘ll not disappoint Buhari as Board Chair — Yawe
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF ) has expressed appreciation to President Muhammadu Buhari for the appointment of two of its principal officer’s into his government as Board Chairmen.
2023: Why I want to succeed Buhari, Adebayo
Barrister Adewole Adebayo is a member of International Bar Association, IBA, and aspiring to contest for the 2023 presidential election on the platform of Mega Party Movement, MPM, a political force being put together by the leaders of National Consultative Front, NCFront.
The Magoro plan
Our paths first met in 1983. This writer was an intrepid and starry-eyed intern with the Nigeria Television Authority, NTA, Kaduna. The swashbuckling General Mohammed Magoro was Commandant of the Nigeria Army School of Infantry, NASI, at Jaji. He had graduated from the prestigious Bida Provincial School also known as Government College Bida.
Buhari’s Channels interview was difficult to watch
First, a shout out to readers of the ‘Orbit’ in the New Year. I have been on a much needed holiday from Nigerian affairs because, frankly, as any newspaper columnist knows, we run the risk of sounding like broken records if we keep persistently at it. Lethargy sets in.
Buhari wants to hand over to PDP: Here’s how
By Azu Ishiekwene AFTER four weeks of delay, confusion and indecisiveness, President Muhammadu Buhari finally refused on Monday to sign the Electoral Amendment Bill, citing a raft of reasons which took him so long to improvise you could clearly guess he wanted the cup to pass over him. But every leader must, at some point, […]
