President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday met with the Co-chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and other members at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Speaking during the opening session of the meeting, President Buhari said…
How Buhari’s re-election campaign team decision may pit Tinubu against Amaechi (Guardian)
Since President Muhammadu Buhari announced his decision to place a former governor of Lagos State, Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in full charge of his re-election campaign at the inauguration of All Progressives Congress (APC) 2019 Presidential Campaign Council in Abuja…
‘Buhari, not ASUU should have mercy on varsity students’ (Punch)
ASUU has been on strike since November 5, 2018. The union reiterated that it was on strike to make the ruling class responsible for the future of Nigerian children. ASUU, in a release signed by Dr Deji Omole, the University…
Group charges FG to pay gas flare penal fees to communities (Independent)
The National Executive Council of the Host Communities of Nigeria (HOSCON) has urged the Federal Government to commence the payment of gas flare penalties directly to the affected communities. The group also said that it was satisfied with President Muhammadu…
Stakeholders to Buhari: Deregulate Nigeria’s oil downstream sector now (Independent)
Stakeholders in oil and gas industry yesterday implored President Muhammadu Buhari to consider total deregulation of the nation’s downstream sector of the petroleum industry, saying that the development would unlock the huge private investment potentials in the sector, and also…
PDP not a threat to Buhari’s re-election — Keyamo (Nation)
Festus Keyamo (SAN), Spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Presidential Campaign Council, says the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is not a threat in the 2019 elections. He said that the PDP would never serve as a threat to…
Daria Media, NTA debut ‘The Candidates’ on January 9
Daria Media and the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) will on January 9, 2019, launch The Candidates, a political programme. The programme, with support from MacArthur Foundation, is conceived as a platform for the registered 91 political parties and their respective…
Presidency warns political appointees against extortion, influence peddling
The Presidency has issued a stern warning to political appointees, government officials and party men against influence peddling for corrupt pecuniary gains and other forms of extortion. Malam Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, told…
I’ll continue as Baba Go Slow until I retrieve every stolen money –Buhari (Punch)
President Muhammadu Buhari said on Tuesday that he was not shaken by critics who called him Baba Go Slow because of his insistence that stolen money must be followed and retrieved, no matter how long it would take. The President…
2019: How we’ll fix the economy if voted into power — Peter Obi
Says Nigeria won’t survive another 4 years of Buhari Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, at the weekend gave an idea of how he and the party’s Presidential Candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, would fix…