The House of Representatives has approved the request by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to borrow N850bn to fund the 2020 budget. The Senate had earlier okayed the borrowing plan amidst controversy. The approval was however given by the House at the plenary on Tuesday within about seven minutes. Details later…
Category: Politics
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Emir of Ilorin thanks Buhari for appointing Gambari as chief of staff
Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, emir of Ilorin, has thanked President Muhammadu Buhari for appointing Ibrahim Gambari as his new chief of staff. Gambari, who is a professor of political science and Nigeria’s former permanent representative to the United Nations, is from Kwara state. Gambari would be unveiled as the chief of staff to Buhari on Wednesday. In a statement...
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BUHARI APPOINTS PROF. IBRAHIM GAMBARI AS NEW CHIEF OF STAFF
A former Under Secretary General of the United Nations, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari has been appointed the new Chief of Staff to the President. Gambari, from Kwara State was the Minister of External Affairs between 1984 and 1985.
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COVID-19: YOUR INCOMPETENCE , BACKSEAT GOVERNANCE DESTROYING, KILLING NIGERIAN – PDP ATTACKS BUHARI
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the manifest incompetence of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led presidency is destroying Nigeria. PDP said Buhari’s lack of visibility and failure to personally lead from the front is responsible for the failure to check the spread of COVID-19 in Nigeria. The opposition party lamented that the alarming increase in...
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Ekweremadu @58: reflections on feedinG bottle federalism and covid-19
By Uche Anichukwu Former Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate and Speaker of ECOWAS Parliament, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, nailed the Nigerian situation in three words that have stuck in the Nigerian political lexicon: feeding bottle federalism. Delivering the 2012 edition of Oputa Lecture on Governance in Africa at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, entitled...
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GOVERNOR WIKE AUCTIONS SEIZED FOR VIOLATING LOCKDOWN REGULATION
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has said vehicles impounded for violating the COVID-19 lockdown regulations would be auctioned. He said on Thursday: “The defaulters will be tried by the Mobile Courts and I have told the Attorney-General that all the impounded vehicles must be auctioned. “By tomorrow (today, Friday), the Attorney-General would have advertised...
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PDP REJECTS N108 EX-DEPOT FUEL PRICE, INSISTS ON N70 PUMP PRICE
PDP Rejects N108 Ex-Depot Fuel Price, Insists on N70 Pump Price The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rejects Federal Government’s pinch in ex-depot price of fuel to N108 liter, insisting on a new pricing template that must accommodate a pump price of between N60 to N70 per liter to reflect the crash in the price of...
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I HAVE FAILED NIGERIANS AS A POLITICIAN – DINO MELAYE
Melaye who has been in and around Nigeria’s political circles, has served as member of the House of Representatives, a senator and a governorship aspirant since his nation’s return to democratic governance in 1999. In a tweet, Melaye shared that the inability of the government to keep Nigerians at home and offer them palliatives as...
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NORTHERN GOVERNORS ARE DETERMINED TO END ALMAJIRI SYSTEM – EL-RUFAI
The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has said that the Northern Governors Forum is determined to bring an end to the Almajiri system in the region. According to him, part of the steps agreed upon to end the system was to repatriate all almajiris back to their states of origin. Speaking further, the governor noted...
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MOTION ON URGENT NEED FOR INTERVENTION IN UNEXPLAINED HIGH FATALITIES IN KANO STATE AND ESCALATE COVID-19 RESPONSE AND TESTING ACROSS NIGERIA, SUPPORTED BY RT HON TOBY OKECHUKWU ON 28TH April 2020
The Deputy minority leader House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Toby Okechukwu. Representing Aninri, Awgu and Oji-River Federal Constituency, earlier on the 28th of April on the floor of Green Chambers contributed to the motion on the urgent need for intervention in unexplained high fatalities in Kano state and testing across Nigeria. In his speech he...