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Buhari, Natl Assembly Dragged To Court Over $29.96bn Loan

January 6, 2020 9:23 am
The fresh $29.96 billion foreign loans being sought by President Muhammadu Buhari government has drawn the fury of a human right lawyer, Barrister Kanmi Ajibola.

Ajibola on Monday instituted a legal action seeking the mandate of the court to stop the National Assembly from approving the loan.

The Senate had recently referred President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2016 – 2018 External Borrowing Plan request to its Committee on Local and Foreign Debts.

The Ministers of Finance, Zainab Ahmed had also declared that President Buhari-led Federal Government cannot stop borrowing to finance projects.

This is following the cry of many Nigerians who

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2020: Ohanaeze Youths Task Buhari On Enugu Coal Mines

January 5, 2020 2:18 pm
The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youths Council Worldwide at the weekend called on President Mohammad Buhari to ensure immediate revamping of Enugu coal mines, rebuild the numerous dilapidated railway stations and train coaches abandoned across the South-East zone.

The group made this known in a statement signed by the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro and the secretary General Mazi Okwu Nnabuike and forwarded to DAILY POST in Abakaliki, the capital of Ebonyi State.

Ohanaeze youths also lamented the death trapped nature of Federal roads in the Southeast zone, calling for an urgent attention of the Federal

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Governor Sule Speaks On APC Considering Buhari For 3rd Term

January 2, 2020 12:12 pm
The Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, has disclosed why the All Progressives Congress, APC, never thought of presenting a third term agenda to President Muhammadu Buhari.

Sule stated that the APC was aware that Buhari will never accept such a move, hence the party never thought of a third term agenda.

Appearing on Channels Television’s Politics Today, the governor said there are some people who belong to the school of thought that owing to his respect for the rule of law, Buhari will never accept to maneuver and change the constitution in order for him to remain in power.

He

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2020: Buhari Lists Major Projects To Be Completed This Year

January 1, 2020 5:26 am
President Muhammadu Buhari has listed some projects Nigerians should expect to come upstream by 2020.

This was part of the President’s New Year message he personally signed and made available to THISDAY on January 1.

Buhari said, “To recapitulate, some of the projects Nigerians should expect to come upstream from 2020 include:

“47 road projects scheduled for completion in 2020/21, including roads leading to ports.

“Major bridges including substantial work on the Second Niger Bridge.

“Completion of 13 housing estates under the National Housing Project Plan.

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;”Lagos, Kano, Maiduguri and

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₦10bn Suit: Ortom Gives Condition To Forgive Oshiomhole

Ortom Cries Out As Buhari Govt Withdraws Military

December 31, 2019 12:48 pm
The Governor of Benue State, Dr Samuel Ortom, has cried out over Federal Government’s decision to withdraw the military from combatting insurgents and other internal uprisings.

The Federal Government, during the Security Council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa on Monday, decided that the Nigeria Police Force will now take over from the military in the ongoing internal security operations in various parts of the country by the first quarter of next year.

The Council decided that the military will pull out from the ongoing internal security operations.

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Pastor Tunde Bakare Meets Buhari In Aso Rock

December 31, 2019 5:24 am
The General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, on Monday met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

Bakare was Buhari’s running mate in the 2011 general election.

However, in September this year, he declared that he would succeed Buhari as Nigeria’s next president.

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No official reason was given for the meeting and the cleric also did not speak to newsmen.

While leaving the Presidential villa, Bakare pleaded with reporters that he had a flight to catch.

 

 

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Buhari In Meeting With Security Chiefs

December 30, 2019 11:36 am
President Muhammadu Buhari is currently meeting with security chiefs at the State House.

The security council is made up of heads of security agencies in the country.

Some of those present include the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Gabriel Olonisakin; the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai; Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Ibok Ekwe-Ibas; and Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Abubakar Sadique.

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Others are the Inspector General of Police (IG), Mohammed Adamu; Director-General of Department of State Services (DSS), Yusuf Bichi; and Director-General of the

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Corruption Worse Under Buhari Govt – Pat Utomi

December 29, 2019 11:23 am

A professor of political economics, Pat Utomi, has noted that corruption is worse in this present administration of President Muhammadu Buhari than ten years ago.

According to him, the change promised by President Buhari-led government was not working.

Utomi was quoted by the Nation as saying that “Sadly, even though our mantra ‘is if Nigeria does not kill corruption, corruption will kill Nigeria,’ I believe by my experience as a businessman that there is worst corruption today in the country than there was 10 years ago.

“So the corruption in the environment also adds to the challenge of investing.

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Will Buhari Succeed in Taking Us Into Second Slavery?

December 29, 2019 7:07 am

In the last four years, the General Buhari administration has taken more foreign debt than almost all past administrations of the last 30 years put together. I am not referring to domestic debt, which does not have the capacity to enslave a nation. I am referring to foreign debt.

Despite the shenanigans of this administration to obscure the fact, the truth, as I said during my Arise TV interview, is that on May 29, 2015, the Jonathan government handed over to the Buhari administration and left it with a foreign debt of $10. 3 billion. Of that amount, $7 …

₦37bn NASS Renovation: Action Against Buhari, Others Begins

December 29, 2019 7:07 am
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), BudgIT, Enough is Enough (EiE) and 583 concerned Nigerians have filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court, Abuja to stop President Muhammadu Buhari and Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning from releasing ₦37 billion allocated for the renovation of the National Assembly complex to the Federal Capital Development Agency and the National Assembly.

The groups are also seeking a court order to stop the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila and the Federal Capital Development Agency from demanding or collecting the N37

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Gani Makes Terrifying Revelations About Buhari, Nigeria

December 29, 2019 3:59 am
The Aare Onakakanfo of Yoruba land, Aare Gani Adams, has revealed what he foresees for Nigeria in 2020.

Adams, a social activist and former leader of a faction of the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, said he sees sanctions against Nigeria from world bodies.

He also predicted that 2020 would be a year when President Muhammadu Buhari will throw more former governors and members of the opposition political parties in jail.

“I don’t foresee any magic. There won’t be something different from what happened in 2019. I foresee a situation where the president would be looking forward to clamp down

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Why History Won’t Be Kind To Buhari, APC – PDP

December 28, 2019 7:33 am
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised President Muhammadu Buhari and leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to apologize to Nigerians for their “misrule”.

PDP also said they should start getting ready for APC’s fizzling before 2023, instead of begging for a place in history.

The party said President Buhari’s plea shows a personal apprehension in confirmation of the failure of his administration and party, APC.

Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary, in a statement on Friday, said Buhari’s comment on history being kind to him was needless as that would not happen.

 

It read: “The party notes that

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