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Buhari Makes New Appointment

January 10, 2020 2:24 am
President Muhammau Buhari has approved the reconstitution of the board of Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC).

Ademola Seriki is now the board Chairman with effect from January 7.

Seriki, a Lagos indigene, served as Minister of State for Interior under the Jonathan administration.

The development was contained in a statement Thursday night by Ibrahim Haruna, Deputy Director, Press in the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment.

It noted that the Minister, Adeniyi Adebayo, made the announcement while presenting appointment letter to new CAC Registrar-General, Garba Abubakar.

According to the statement, the minister said that the reconstitution of the board had put

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Buhari Overrules Power Minister, Mamman Again

January 10, 2020 2:18 am
President Muhammadu Buhari has cancelled the dismissal of Marilyn Amobi as the Managing Director of the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Company Limited (NBET).

Sale Mamman, Minister of Power, had asked Amobi to step down with immediate effect. He also ordered her probe.

Buhari’s decision was contained in a memo by the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF).

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The agency has also been moved from the Ministry of Power to the Ministry of Finance.

Nnaemeka Ewelukwa, who had assumed office as the Acting Managing Director

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Buhari, ASUU Meet In Aso Rock Amid IPPIS Controversy

January 10, 2020 1:16 am

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday met with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.

The meeting was held behind closed-doors at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

Disclosing this in a tweet, Buhari’s Special Assistant on New Media, Tolu Ogunlesi wrote: “ASUU meeting with the President this afternoon. Ministers of Education and Finance in attendance. #AsoVillaToday.”

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The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu and his Finance counterpart, Zainab Ahmed were also part of the dignitaries in the meeting.

The meeting is believed to be centered around the Integrated …

Uche Nwosu Opens Up On Buhari, Ex-Imo Gov, APC In 2023

January 10, 2020 1:15 am
Former Imo Action Alliance (AA) governorship candidate, Uche Nwosu, says achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration would earn the All Progressives Congress (APC) continuity in power by 2023.

Nwosu, an in-law to former Imo state governor, Rocha’s Okorocha and his Chief of Staff, recently returned to the APC along with his supporters.

“I believe him; that is him and that is leadership”, NAN quoted him as saying on Wednesday in an interview.

“The APC under President Buhari has done well in the areas of fight against corruption, insecurity and agricultural development.

“In the area of agriculture, we now have

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2023: Buhari Mocks PDP

January 10, 2020 1:08 am

President Muhammadu Buhari has mocked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over its “terminal decline and future in national politics.”

A statement on Thursday by his spokesman, Garba Shehu, said Nigerians were surprised reading a statement issued by them assuming the role of presidential image maker.

Shehu asked the PDP their business about alleged love lost between President Buhari and the APC.

“What do they know? Who sent them?”, he queried.

“Today, the PDP represents the single biggest obstacle to good governance and change that the country needs and the people are yearning for.

“Both self-respect and sound political judgement demand

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2019 Polls: You’ve Admitted Irregularities – PDP To Buhari

January 10, 2020 1:06 am
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has declared that President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent comments on the nation’s electoral process under the current Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is a clear admittance that 2019 general elections were not credible.

PDP said that if President Buhari is committed to ensuring free, fair and credible electoral process, he should reintroduce the 8th National Assembly’s Electoral Act Amendment bill, which he refused to sign, and make a fresh commitment to sign it into law immediately.

The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan specifically challenged President Buhari to reciprocate the benevolence of Nigerians

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Princewill Speaks On His Health, Amaechi, APC, Buhari

January 8, 2020 8:49 pm

Nseobong Okon-Ekong holds a conversation with businessman and All Progressives Congress group leader in Rivers State on challenges within the party and other issues

We heard you recently survived five mini-heart attacks before you were properly diagnosed in a London hospital. What really happened?

It was actually six in total if you count the one that happened in the hospital between when I did my ECG and while I was waiting for my chest X-ray results. The truth is I had been having many episodes of chest tightening and I could not explain it. First in Dubai, then in Nigeria. …

Buhari Reportedly Summons Fayemi, Makinde, Abiodun

January 8, 2020 2:43 pm
Report reaching NAN from Ibadan, the Oyo state capital indicates that President Muhammadu Buhari has summoned the six governors from the South West region to a meeting at Aso Rock.

NAN gathered that the summon is connected with the launch of a new security outfit code-named Amotekun by the six governors.

It was gathered that the six governors, Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Gboyega Oyetola (Osun) Dapo Abiodun (Ogun) Rotimi Akeredolu (Ondo), Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti) and Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos) had last year agreed to establish a security outfit that will put a stop to the insecurity situation in the region.

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2023 Presidency: Buhari Has No Confidence In APC, Govt –PDP

January 8, 2020 1:20 pm

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Wednesday, said President Muhammadu Buhari has “no confidence in his government and party, the All Progressives Congress, APC.”

PDP explained that the Presidency’s continuous reference to a presidential successor, less than a year into Buhari’s second tenure was a direct acceptance of failure and lack of capacity of the Buhari administration to manage the affairs of a nation as complex as Nigeria.

A statement by PDP’s spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, said Buhari’s apprehensions that his party will fizzle out before 2023 is also a weighty forewarning to Nigerians not to put any hope whatsoever …

US Vs Iran: Buhari Meets Kyari As Oil Prices Rise

January 8, 2020 1:19 pm

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, met behind closed doors with the Group Managing Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mela Kyari, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the agenda of the meeting was unknown at the time of filing this report.

The meeting came amidst the escalating tension between the United States and Iran following the killing of an Iranian commander, Soleimani and the subsequent retaliatory attacks on military bases housing American troops in Iraq.

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NAN also reports that the …

Buhari Reverses Suspension Of REA MD, Ogunbiyi

January 7, 2020 1:36 pm

President Muhammadu Buhari’s government has reversed the suspension of the Managing Director of Rural Electricity Agency (REA) Mrs. Damilola Ogunbiyi.

THISDAY recalls that the Minister of Power, Mr. Sale Mamman on Dec. 31st ordered the suspension of the Managing Director of Rural Electrification, Ms Damilola Ogunbiyi.

Ogunbiyi was suspended over alleged malpractices on December 31.

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The federal government, however, accepted her resignation to enable her take up her new role in the United Nations.

The presidency Twitter account posted, “President Buhari has directed that the suspension of Mrs. Damilola Ogunbiyi from …

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Lawyer Cautions Buhari Against Withdrawing Troops

January 7, 2020 1:31 pm

A Kaduna based legal practitioner, Barrister John Achimugu, has cautioned the Buhari-led government against the withdrawal of military personnel from insecurity prone communities and replacing them with policemen.

He said, “I am disappointed with the way security has been handled so far and is still being handled. I have read in the papers this week that areas that are prone to banditry actions, military personnel that have hitherto brought the situation under control be taken out of those places and that such places be handed over to the police.

“The type of guns banditry have are superior than the ones …

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