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2023 Budget Buhari, Osinbajo To Spend ₦14bn On Internet

2023 Budget: Buhari, Osinbajo To Spend ₦14bn On Internet

October 11, 2022 5:40 am

The Presidential Villa in Nigeria will gulp at least ₦14.8bn on Internet access, stationery, and telephone charges, among others, under the Federal Government’s planned expenditure which was captured in the 2023 budget.

In the budget which was obtained by Africa Daily News, New York, ₦67.1m was set aside for Internet access to the Villa, while stationery and computer consumables would be taking ₦79m.

A further breakdown of the budget also showed that ₦35.9m was allocated for electricity charges, telephone charges and water rates each got ₦306.2m, ₦6m, and ₦40.6m respectively.

Out of the total budget for the Villa, ₦1.6bn …

Osinbajo: Youths Don’t Need To Know Anybody To Benefit From SIPs

Osinbajo: Youths Don’t Need To Know Anybody To Benefit From SIPs

October 28, 2020 7:10 am

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said Social Investment Programmes (SIPs) were done in a transparent manner whereby Nigerians who knew no one could benefit and they did benefit.

Osinbajo said this Tuesday when he received at the Presidential Villa, the executive committee of the Young Parliamentarians Forum.

The group was led by its chairman, Simon Elisha, a member of the House of Representatives.

Read Also: Details Of Osinbajo’s Meeting With Govs, IGP, CBN, Military

Osinbajo said the programmes, under his watch, resisted pressures to share slots to public officials or political chieftains.

‘The first problem was everybody wanted a slot. I

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Buhari, Akufo-Addo meet behind ‘closed-door’ in Aso Villa

Buhari, Akufo-Addo Meet Behind ‘Closed-Door’ In Aso Villa

September 21, 2020 4:03 am

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday night met behind closed doors with President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Bashir Ahmad, the President’s Personal Assistant on New Media, confirmed this on his Twitter handle.

The presidential aide, who could not elaborate on the agenda of the meeting between the two leaders, however, posted pictures in which the Nigerian leader could be seen escorting his guest after the meeting.

The closure of shops owned by Nigerian traders in Ghana had heightened tensions between the two countries, a situation which led the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama to summon …

APC Crisis - Governors reveal details of meeting with Buhari

APC Crisis: Governors Reveal Details Of Meeting With Buhari

June 22, 2020 3:14 pm

President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressive Congress (APC) Governors met on Monday over the crisis rocking the party.

The parley was held in the President’s office at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

In attendance were Chairman, Progressive Governors Forum and the Kebbi Governor, Atiku Bagudu; Chairman of the Northern Governors Forum and the Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong, as well as the Jigawa State Governor, Abubakar Badaru.

Bagudu told State House correspondents that the meeting was to give the President the position of the APC governors.

He explained that the meeting was to “discuss party issues, the position of the

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October Ist: Igbo Youths Must Avoid Being Kanu's Scapegoat

Aisha Buhari: Biafrans Are Going Home This Year – Nnamdi Kanu

June 14, 2020 10:27 am
Following the recent incidents being reported in the Presidential Villa, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has told Biafrans to get ready to leave Nigeria sooner than later.

Nnamdi Kanu was reacting to the reports of gunshots at the Presidential Villa involving Nigeria’s First Lady, Dr. Aisha Buhari, members of her immediate family, her Aide-de-camp, Usman Shugaba and Sabiu Yusuf, a Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari.

Recall that following the death of Abba Kyari, President Buhari’s former Chief of Staff, Nnamdi Kanu had declared that Aisha Buhari is now in charge of the Aso

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Chinese, Liaohas Is Now Firmly In Charge Of Govt – Kanu

‘The Chinese Are Now Firmly In Charge Of Nigerian Govt’

April 14, 2020 8:54 am
The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has claimed that the Presidential Villa is now being run by the Chinese Civil Engineering Construction Company, CCECC.

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu stated this in reaction to a recent revelation by Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government did not invite the Chinese doctors who came into the country last Wednesday to help with the fight against Coronavirus (COVID-19).

Ehanire made the remark during an appearance on Channels TV’s News at 10 on Saturday.

Read Also: ‘Aso Rock Is Vacant’ – Nnamdi

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Buhari’s Nationwide Broadcast Not Done In Nigeria – Kanu

Buhari’s Nationwide Broadcast Not Done In Nigeria – Kanu

March 31, 2020 6:44 am

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has taken to his verified Facebook Page to claim that President Muhammadu Buhari’s nationwide broadcast on Sunday was not done from the Presidential Villa.

He also said it was not a live broadcast but recorded.

Amidst claims by Kanu and some others that he has been secretly flown abroad to Cuba, President Buhari made a live broadcast from the Aso Rock Villa on Sunday, highlighting his government’s efforts in the fight against Coronavirus.

Read Also: COVID-19 Has Confirmed Nigeria Is Not A Federation – Kanu

The broadcast was

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Laetitia Naankang Dagan. Source Facebook

Burial Date For Laetitia Dagan Announced

February 21, 2020 4:49 am

Late Laetitia Naankang Dagan, the Assistant Director of Administration in Aso Rock Presidential Villa murdered in her home in Abuja on Monday evening will be buried in Jos, Plateau State on Friday, February 21, 2020.

Dagan, who who was murdered at her Lokogoma, Abuja apartment by yet to be identified gunmen was allegedly molested before the assailants set her ablaze on Monday night.

She will be interred at her family burial ground at Kwoor, in Kwalla community of Plateau State.

Details in the burial programmes as reported reads: “Funeral arrangements for Late Laetitia Naankang Dagan “SLOGA Candle lit prayer at …

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