Happy Birthday to a living icon Nigeria Olusegun Mathew Okikiola Aremu Obasanjo, GCFR

Olúṣẹ́gun Ọbásanjọ́ was born on 5th March 1937. He is a former Nigerian Army general who was President of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007. 

A Nigerian of Yoruba descent, Obasanjo was a career soldier before serving twice as his nation's head of state, as a military ruler from 13 February 1976 to 1 October 1979 and as a democratically elected president from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2007. From July 2004 to January 2006, Obasanjo also served as Chairperson of the African Union.

​Buhari Leaves for Egypt Friday

President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja on Friday for Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt to participate in the Business for Africa, Egypt and the World Forum.

A statement by the president’s spokesman, Femi Adesina, said the forum, which opens in the Egyptian resort town on Saturday, is organized by the Egyptian government under the auspices of the African Union Commission.

Buhari Appoints Tolu Ogunlesi Head of New Media Team

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday appointed Tolu Ogunlesi as his Special Assistant on Digital/New Media.

Mr. Ogunlesi, who is a renowned blogger and journalist, graduated from the University of Ibadan in 2004, and obtained an MA in Creative Writing from University of East Anglia, UK, in 2011.

We Will Rebuild Nigeria, Buhari Assures British MPs

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja reassured that his administration would rebuild Nigeria to an enviable position.

A statement issued by the president’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, said Buhari gave the reassurance when he received a team of British Members of Parliament led by Hon. Chi Onwurah.

According to the president, Nigeria expects a lot from Britain in her rebuilding process, due to the affinity shared by the two countries.

SGF: Buhari Administration Gender-Sensitive

Babachir David Lawal

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Engr. Babachir David Lawal on Friday declared that President Buhari’s administration is gender-sensitive.

He said though the administration is gender-sensitive, it does not compromise competency and integrity.

Lawal made the declaration when members of the National Council of Women Societies (NCWS) paid a courtesy call on him in his office.

  FLASH| Biafra Lawyers File Suit Against Buhari,Accuse Him of War Crimes

The pro-Biafran activist group led by the imprisoned Nnamdi Kanu has filed a complaint against Muhammadu Buhari in The Hague, accusing the Nigerian president of war crimes.

 

Thousands of people in southeast Nigeria have demonstrated in recent months,demanding independence for Biafra. Kanu, the leader of one of the most prominent activist groups—the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)—was arrested by Nigerian security forces in October 2015 on charges of ethnic incitement and sedition. He remains in detention and was refused bail by a federal high court in the capital Abuja on Friday.

Fierce Disagreement Within Buhari’s Camp Preceded Signing Of Extradition Agreement With UAE

However, Newsmen has learned that the commercial and trade agreements signed between Nigeria and the UAE were considered by many on Mr. Buhari’s delegation as counter to Nigeria’s best economic interests. The most vocal dissenters, according to sources, were Mrs. Adeosun and Mr. Udoma, who counseled Mr. Buhari not to sign those agreements.

Sources inside Nigeria’s Presidency have told SaharaReporters that fierce disagreements over treaties signed between Nigeria and the United Arab

There’re Plans to Kill Buhari –Fr. Mbaka

 

 Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka

 

Fiery Enugu Catholic priest, and founder, Adoration Ministry, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, in a New Year sermon on Friday said there are plans by unnamed people to assassinate President Muhammadu Buhari.

He said many people are plotting to kill the President because of his campaign against corruption.


He said, “I am not a sycophant, but I want to tell you that so far God is happy and he who God has blessed none can curse.

“Many people are planning to kill Buhari – there are many plans on how to eliminate his life so that corruption will continue, so that embezzlement will continue.

Goodluck Jonathan, Adesina, Buhari Named Among 100 Most Influential Africans   

Nigeria’s former President Goodluck Jonathan, President Muhammadu Buhari, the Chairman, Board of Directors, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Mr. Tony Elumelu and 97 others have been named among the “100 most influential Africans of 2015.”

 

 

The list published by pan African magazine, “New African” presented Africa’s definitive power list and profiled the continent’s top game changers in eight different fields: politics (22); public office (4); arts and culture (21);business (21); civil society (11); technology(9); media (7); and sports (5).

Goodluck Jonathan made the list for the significant role he played in Nigeria’s 2015 elections which saw the first successful transfer of power from a ruling government to an opposition party in Nigeria. Goodluck Jonathan’s humility in defeat ensured that Nigeria avoided a post-election crisis.

Other Nigerians recognized included: 

 

Economic Reform Begins With a Crackdown on Corruption, Says Muhammadu Buhari, President of Nigeria

In 2014, before the election that saw the first change of power in Nigeria by peaceful democratic means in our history, the then government rebased our country’s GDP. Now, by internationally recognised metrics, we possess the largest economy in Africa. While this should be a source of pride for Nigerians, it goes no way to addressing the deep structural challenges our economy faces; nor does it put more money in the pockets or more food on the table of millions of our citizens who go without, every day. To achieve dynamic and sustainable economic growth, and to eradicate poverty, we need as a nation to undertake serious economic reforms. Some will be painful, but all are necessary.

I am determined that if my government stands for anything it is the complete breaking of the cycle of gross corruption and theft that has caused investors to look first anywhere but Nigeria when considering business opportunities in Africa. In visits, starting with Britain, America, Germany and France, I have

Buhari Meets Father Mbaka, Insists Change Will Come to Nigeria

 



Fiery Catholic priest and the Spiritual Director of the Adora­tion Ministry in Enugu, Rev.-Father Ejike Mbaka, on Friday met behind closed-door with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Mbaka stirred controversy earlier in the year when he delivered a message that former President Goodluck Jonathan would fail in the presidential election.

He had said that the Holy Spirit told him Jonathan was not favoured to continue as President going by the state of the Nigerian economy and widespread insecurity, which he had failed to contain.


The clergyman who was accompanied by four men met with Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. 

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, in a statement quoted the President as telling Mbaka that the best exhortations to the nation he has heard from the pulpit was the one made earlier in the year by Mbaka. 

Adesina quoted the President as commending the Catholic priest’s exemplary courage. 

“Thank you very much for what you have done and said. It brought you out to the whole country as a man of courage. 

PDP faults President Buhari for Collecting SUVs from Dasuki

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has faulted President Muhammadu Buhari for dealing with the office of former National Security Adviser, NSA, Sambo Dasuki (rtd) instead of that of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, regarding his purported collection of exotic cars from the federal government.

This is coming on the heels of denial by Buhari that he did not received the sum of $300,000 and five armoured SUVs from Dasuki, stressing that only two SUVs were sent to him.

But PDP spokesman, Olisa Metuh, who faulted the defence of the president in a statement issued on Wednesday, called for a neutral body to be involved in the anti-graft campaign of the current administration.

Nigeria Minister of State Named New OPEC President

The minister of state for petroleum, Mr Ibe Kachiukwu, has replaced Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke as the conference president of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

Speculations have been rife that President Muhammadu Buhari, who is also the minister of petroleum would take the top seat at OPEC, but the organisation in a recent update named Kachikwu as the head of the OPEC conference.