The Chairman, Senate Committee on Works, Sen. Kabiru Gaya, has urged Nigerians to be patient with the present administration as it works towards entrenching good governance.

For a long time, when voices opposed to the listlessness, corruption, and lack of clear direction of the current Buhari administration spoke out about it, administration spokespeople – Lai Mohammed, Femi Adesina, and Garba Shehu; and, to a large extent, the former Constitutional scholar, Dr. Itsay Sagay – earned their daily broth by bombarding Nigerians with hokum.

A coalition of agitators in the Niger Delta said yesterday that it has set off programmed attack troop to bring to a halt further oil exploration and exportation from the region, following the current NNPC outrage and scandalous revelation by the World Bank that President Muhammadu Buhari directed the financial institution to concentrate development in northern Nigeria.

IN what looked like a  harsh response, the Presidency, yesterday, berated critiques for claiming that President Muhammadu Buhari told the World Bank to site its programmes in the Northern part of Nigeria, saying the President told the global financial institution to focus on the ravaged Northeast geopolitical zone.

Being a farmer himself, it was easy for president Muhamadu Buhari to spot the fact that the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN Anchor Borrowers Program has been making waves by having massive impact on the farming sector across the country and by extension helping in lifting up Nigeria’s economy which due to the sharp drop in crude oil price had tanked since the inception of the current administration.

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday said that his government has been fair to the South East geo-political zone in terms of appointments which he said were evidenced in the allocation of four prominent ministerial positions to the zone.

The Chairman of the National Campaign for the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the forthcoming governorship election in Anambra State and Governor of Bauchi State, Mohammed Abubakar, Friday took the party’s standard bearer in the November 18 election to President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

As controversy trails the call by President Muhammadu Buhari to the World Bank in 2015 to help rebuild the Northeast ravaged by insurgents, Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, yesterday, cleared the air on what Buhari actually said and those present.

President Muhammadu Buhari, Friday, said his administration has been fair to the South-East, contrary to claims in some quarters that his government has been marginalisaing the region.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Abuja assured stakeholders from the South-East that the region would benefit more from roads and coastal rail projects to boost the nation’s economy.