Month: October 2018

— My credentials are still with the military, Buhari tells INEC Over 70 out of the 91 political parties are presenting presidential candidates that will participate in the 2019 Presidential elections. According to an exlusive report by the Punch, over 70 names had been posted as of Thursday night . The list was posted with INEC…

President Muhammadu Buhari says he is disappointed in the Nigerian media for failing to highlight the progress of his administration in the agricultural sector. Buhari said this at a dinner he hosted for young political appointees at the presidential villa, Abuja, on Wednesday. According to the Cable, the president said under him, agriculture had become so…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday night again blamed the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for wasting the commonwealth of Nigerians during its sixteen years administrations. According to him, there was nothing to show for the huge resources that were earned in the country during the period. He spoke at a dinner for youth political appointees at…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday again took a swipe at his predecessors, saying they did little to increase passenger handling capacity or airport terminals since early 1980s. Buhari made the claim in his remarks at the inauguration of the new terminal of the Port Harcourt International Airport in Omagwa, River State. He said the neglect…

The Adamawa State police command has arrested Lawan Faro, the man who climbed a 40 metre-high billboard hanger in Yola, the state capital on Wednesday and threatened to jump to his death if President Muhammadu Buhari fails to resign. Lawan said he would only come down if the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,…

About 300 members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have defected to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC). The defectors were received at the state secretariat of the PDP at Area 10, Abuja, on Tuesday led by Alhaji Ibrahim Musa, a former APC stalwart in Karu ward. Musa…

The Peoples Democratic Party has condemned President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement in which he said Nigerians “who feel they have another country may choose to go.” The PDP described the statement as unpresidential, defeatist and characteristic of what it called failed leadership. With the statement, the party said the President spoke like someone who had lost…

Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Tuesday said the present administration has done better in power generation, transmission and distribution than the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) did in 16 years of its administration. A statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES Tuesday from the minister’s media office said Mr Fashola made this…

— I can’t be intimidated with EFCC to join the APC like Godswill Akpabio for fear of going to jail Former Governor of Ekiti, Ayodele Fayose has lambasted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and the All Progressives Congress, APC, after he was granted bail by the court. Speaking with press men in Lagos after…