There were strong indications on Saturday evening that the Senate would, this week, begin the process to override President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to withhold his assent to the 2018 Electoral Act amendment bill. Senate spokesperson, Senator Ben Murray-Bruce, had told Saturday PUNCH that the red chamber had rejected Buhari’s reasons …
Read More »Trump To Buhari: US Won’t Accept Killings Of Christians In Nigeria
American President Donald Trump has described the killings of Christians in Nigeria as unacceptable to his government. Trump spoke at the White House in Washington DC on Monday where he received General Muhammadu Buhari. The US president described the spate of killings in Nigeria as a “terrible problem” Trump said …
Read More »Trump and Nigerian President Buhari deflect awkward question
US President Donald Trump’s reported disparaging of African countries did not come up in his talks with Nigeria’s president, the two leaders have said. Muhammadu Buhari sidestepped a reporter’s question about Mr Trump’s alleged use of the term “shitholes” to describe certain developing nations. In their White House news conference, …
Read More »Buhari’s Impeachment: Mission Impossible
The Chairmen of the Committees on Public Accounts in the National Assembly – Kingsley Chinda (House of Representatives, PDP Rivers, Obio/Akpor Constituency) and Mathew Urhoghide (Senate, PDP Edo South) – have both had cause to ask the respective Chambers of the National Assembly to commence impeachment proceedings against President Muhammadu …
Read More »Islamist Insurgents: Pushing Nigeria Off The Edge Of The Precipice
Gentlemen of the Press, I welcome you all to this press conference in the precious and wonderful name of Our Redeemer and Savior, Jesus Christ. The last press conference I addressed was in January over the state of insecurity in the country where we brought to the fore, the failure …
Read More »Catholic Bishops ‘Tell Buhari to Resign’
The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign, according to the Punch newspaper. It is in response to 16 Catholics being killed earlier this week by people the bishops suspect are Fulani herdsmen.The victims included two Catholic priests. A reported reprisal attack killed 27 …
Read More »President Buhari as a public relations nightmare
Fellow Nigerians, these are not the best of times for our dear President, Muhammadu Buhari. And it must be much worse for his media handlers. Let me state matter-of-factly, from the onset, that President Buhari gets into regular trouble, indeed, too frequently, because he has invested heavily in a media …
Read More »APC group, PDP, SDP, Obasanjo’s CNM, others to form new party
A grand coalition of opposition political parties, including a chunk of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and influential political stakeholders across the country is being firmed up ahead of the 2019 general election to wrest power from President Muhammadu Buhari’s party. The new coalition may be unveiled in the …
Read More »Killings: Reps Summon Buhari, pass vote of no confidence on service chiefs
The House of Representatives during plenary, Wednesday resolved to summon President Muhammadu Buhari over the spate of killings in Benue State and other parts of the country. The decision was unanimously adopted by overwhelming majority of members after a Kano lawmaker, Baballe Bashir (APC, Kano) moved for the amendment of …
Read More »Lazy Nigerian Youths Gets A Page
Controversy over General Muhammadu Buhari’s characterization of Nigerian youths has taken a new dimension with a page being created on Wikipedia in acknowledgment of the social media revolt of young Nigerians against their description, tagged, #LazyNigerianYouths. While speaking at a forum during the just concluded Commonwealth Summit in UK, Buhari had …
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