The maiden Presidential Media Chat of President Muhammadu Buhari will begin by 7.00pm today, in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.

Former Governor of Sokoto state, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, has endorsed the ongoing anti-corruption war of President Muhammadu Buhari.

By Chimaobi Nwaiwu The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has described as blatant lies, the claim that its incarcerated leader and founder of Radio Biafra, Mr. Nnamdui Kanu has expressed regrets and apologized to President Muhammadu Buhari, former President Goodluck Jonathan and Igbo elders for his alleged uncomplimentary remarks and statements against them to facilitate […]

Lagos— Further details emerging from the recently presented 2016 budget has shown that the executive arm of the government would spend the lion share of N5.87 trillion, or about 96.5 per cent of the total N6.1 trillion about N205 billion or 3.5 per cent to the other arms of government, with the Legislature and the Judiciary, spending N115 billion and N90 billion respectively.

AS the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, prepares to conclude the governorship election in Bayelsa State on January 9, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and governor of the state, Seriake Dickson, visited President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has thrown more light into why the N6.08 trillion 2016 federal budget presented by President Muhammadu Buhari is a huge fraud, warning that with the proposed N1.84 trillion borrowing, the nation is going the way of Greece.

Sapele Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, SACCIMA, Sapele, Delta State, has advised the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency on foreign exchange (forex) by stopping the financing imports of all non-government or essential commodities or settlements of important bills and BTA’s, as it was in the mid-80s when forex was allocated for essential imports only.

Mr. President, as one of your most loyal and faithful subjects who has nothing but the utmost respect for your person and your office I am constrained to write you this open letter.

Elder statesman, Tanko Yakassai served as Special Adviser to President Shehu Shagari on National Assembly Matters and before then was commissioner for Finance in the old Kano State. In this interview, he reviews the steps of the Muhammadu Buhari administration among other issues.

Ado-Ekiti—The Minister of Solid Minerals and former Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has said the N6.08 trillion 2016 budgetary proposal presented before the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari was not too much considering the level of infrastructural decay and other sundry problems confronting the nation.

Amid indications that the government may have settled for the full deregulation of the petroleum sector in 2016, oil workers, under the aegis of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), have expressed support for the looming regime.

A former Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Rowland Owie, has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to order the release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, to reduce tension in the country.

Lagos lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, in this interview, speaks on the efforts to recover the nation’s funds looted under the previous administration, saying Nigerians must own the ongoing war against corruption to make it effective.

In 1984, when Buhari presented his first budget as the military Head of State, the price of crude oil was sliding downwards from an unprecedented $38 per barrel towards $15 per barrel. In December 2015 as he presents his third annual budget, the nation is once again facing a grim situation. As Buhari announced to the National Assembly and the global community, “By June 2014, oil prices averaged $112 per barrel. But, as at today, the price is under $39 per barrel.” With the budget based on $38 per barrel as the price of crude oil for 2016, the margin of error is very thin indeed. There ends the similarity.

The effectiveness of a national security organization is determined by the accuracy of its reports. By the time the FBI breaks into any premises, it had gathered sufficient and reliable information to violate the fundamental rights of the occupants. Scotland Yard would never arrest first, on spurious charges, and later run around for evidence. That is standard operating procedure in any democracy.