Tag: President Muhammadu Buhari
2023: Set up interim government after Buhari to chart a new...
By SEGUN FATUASE
Prominent lawyer, Afe Babalola, says an interim government should replace the current administration at the expiration of President Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure in...
Who is Nigeria’s next president? By Lasisi Olagunju
“Someone who should know told me that our next president has not declared yet; that all those who have so far declared won’t be...
Kukah: Under Buhari everything is destroyed but corruption is alive and...
SOKOTO - The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Dr. Matthew Hassan Kukah, on Sunday took on government of the President Muhammadu Buhari, saying every...
INEC chairman’s last chance to redeem his legacy in 2023, By...
INEC chairman Professor Mahmood Yakubu is straight-up one of Nigeria’s most intelligent public servants. I know because I interacted with him when we both...
2023: Buhari’s silence causes anxiety; Osinbajo, Tinubu, Amaechi, others confused
ABUJA - President Muhammadu Buhari’s body language as to his preferred candidate for the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has unsettled...
Buhari pardons ex-Governors Dariye, Nyame, 157 others
ABUJA - The National Council of State has granted state pardon to former Governors Joshua Dariye and Jolly Nyame of Plateau and Taraba States...
Breaking: Northern Elders tell Buhari to resign over insecurity, say can’t...
ABUJA - The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has demanded the immediate resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari, over the raging killings across the country, especially...
Video – Osinbajo: Why I want to succeed Buhari in 2023
ABUJA - After months of speculation, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, has formally declared his intention to run for the President of Nigeria in 2023.
His...
Imam Khalid and Northern hypocrisy, By Kazeem Akintunde
Sheikh Nuru Khalid, the former Chief Imam of Apo Legislative Quarters’ Mosque committed a great ‘sin’ recently when he took the government of President...
2023: Tinubu, Osinbajo divide South-West governors, leaders
ABUJA - Ahead of the presidential primary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, governors elected on the platform of the party are divided over...
Teachers’ retirement age now 65 as Buhari signs new bill, 3...
BY ISMAILA CHAFE
ABUJA - President Muhammadu Buhari has assented to four bills recently passed by the National Assembly including Harmonised Retirement Age for...
A troubling history of consensus politics, By Azu Ishiekwene
On March 26 at the Eagle Square, Abuja, the All Progressives Congress (APC), reinvented a version of consensus politics that ancient Rome and Greece...
Insecurity: Buhari has lost the moral right to continue in office,...
ABUJA - The umbrella body for Muslims in the North, the Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), has passed a vote of no confidence in President...
Since 1914 amalgamation, Nigeria has never had a President better than...
BY ABBAS BAMALLI
KATSINA - Gov. Aminu Masari of Katsina State says “since the amalgamation of Nigeria in 1914, the country has never had a...
Kaduna train attack: el-Rufa’i updates Buhari
BY ISMAIL CHAFE
ABUJA - Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State on Friday in Abuja updated President Muhammadu Buhari on security developments in his state...
APC’s long night, By Lasisi Olagunju
I saw two bearded, bitter members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Channels TV late last week lamenting. They said ex-PDP leaders were...
‘Unity List’, APC convention and the night after; By Dakuku Peterside
It has been a long road to the APC convention, after 22 months of uncertainty and another long night at the historic and symbolic...
Buhari and serial rape of Nigeria’s Lady Justice, By Festus Adedayo
Though it looks harmless, political cartooning can be nerve-racking, provoking the bile of political office holders and triggering a huge political umbrage in the...
Who is Buhari’s 2023 candidate? By Fredrick Nwabufo
President Muhammadu Buhari can be inscrutable. Difficult to predict and divine. You cannot tell what he is thinking. And like the old general that...
APC’s Kabiyesi politics, By Lasisi Olagunju
Kabiyesi means ‘we dare not question him.’ The nearest to its meaning is what my Hausa friend does with effusive ‘Ranka dede’ at the...