President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the US President-elect, Joe Biden, to introduce greater engagement with Africa on the basis of reciprocal respect and shared interest. In a statement made available to newsmen yesterday by his spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, Buhari congratulated the former US Vice President on his election “at a time of uncertainty and […]
A Special Presidential Delegation led by Chief of Staff to President Muhammad Buhari, Prof. Agboola Gambari, met South East Governors and other Igbo leaders in Enugu on Saturday in a bid to ascertain their general grievances and suggestions towards achieving peace and unity in the country. The visit was aftermath of the recent youths’ #EndSARS […]
Lawyers yesterday condemned the act of the Federal Government freezing the accounts of #Endsars Protest financiers. The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja had on Friday granted an ex-parte application filed by the Central Bank of Nigeria which sought to freeze account of certain individuals which allegedly sponsored the #Endsars Protest. An Abuja based […]
•Wike to get N78bn The minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola has said that the Federal Government has budgeted the sum of N725 billion to pay states as refund for the projects they executed, noting that bulk of the funds would come from foreign loans. Fashola, who disclosed this yesterday in […]
…blame destruction on built up anger, trauma, and hatred for insincere authority Although federal and many state governments have instituted programmes aimed at addressing the dust raised by the #EndSARS protest, but the massive looting and wanton destruction of property that came in its wake, will for a long time, linger in the minds […]
Indications have emerged as to why policemen and officers are still reluctant in reporting at their duty posts despite the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Adamu’s orders that they should go back to their work. Police presence has been largely anonymous since the burning and looting which attended the #EndSARS protest went awry. […]
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday congratulated the 46th US President-elect, Joe Biden and his Vice-Presidentelect, Kamala Harris. Obasanjo described Biden’s described the election as “a victory of good over evil” which was for most people of the world. The former president stated this in a congratulatory letter to Biden, a copy, which was made […]
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has said the victory of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States of America is well deserved. Atiku, in a statement yesterday, called for “US-Nigeria relations, especially on widening the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) for seamless interplay with the African Continental Free Trade Area […]
Sequel to yesterday’s victory of Joe Biden as the president-elect of the United States, a Professor of Political Science and Executive Dean for Public Policy and Public Service at Hofstra University, Meena Bose, has said President Donald Trump cannot challenge the election result immediately but will have to allow it make its way through the […]
It was wild jubilation across the United States as Americans rejected President Donald Trump’s second term bid by electing former Vice President, Joe Biden as the 46th President in an election said to mark the return of decency to the White House. As the figures were tallied Saturday, Americans partied in Washington and in […]