The Special Adviser on Media to ex-president, Mohammadu Buhari, Mr. Femi Adesina has said his principal actually felt some things the administration did, could have been done better. Adesina spoke in Osogbo on Wednesday at a programme tagged Media Dialogue with Femi Adesina organised by the Association of Veteran Journalists in Osun State. The ex-presidential spokesperson said before Buhari left …

Rights activist and former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Mr. Omoyele Sowore has said that President Bola Tinubu is not different from his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari. He made the comparison on Thursday after he was denied the opportunity to meet with the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Mazi at the Department of State …

President Muhammadu Buhari has conferred Nigerian citizenship on 385 foreign nationals, declaring them worthy of being citizens of Nigeria after meeting all necessary conditions. The conferment was conducted on behalf of the President by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, at the Nigeria Correctional Service headquarters in Abuja. President Buhari said his administration gave citizenship to more foreigners than any administration so …

Anambra State governor, Prof. Charles Soludo has again appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu before exiting office on Monday. Kanu, who is the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPoB), was first arrested in 2015 but was granted bail two years later. He jumped bail and fled abroad, but was re-arrested in Kenya and …

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed that all outgoing officials, elected and appointed – from the Vice President downward – must collect the assets declaration form, fill and return it as he has done. He said that his strict adherence to the constitutional requirement of asset declaration before and after taking office is aimed at strengthening best practices, raising moral standards …

President Muhammadu Buhari and his successor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu were on Friday spotted together going round the Presidential Villa. The tour around the seat of power is to familiarise the incoming President with the workings of the State House, from where he would preside over the affairs of Nigeria. This comes ahead of Monday’s inauguration, expected to take place …

President Buhari has the authority to borrow funds and allocate contracts up until the final moments of his tenure, the Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola said on Thursday at the flagging off of the construction and dualisation of the Akure-Ado Ekiti Expressway in Akure, the Ondo State capital. The road is about 49 kilometre long and has …

The outgoing Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Barrister Festus Keyamo on Wednesday told President Muhammadu Buhari that it was an aberration to appoint a Minister of State. At the valedictory session presided over by President Buhari to mark the end of his administration’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Keyamo thanked the President for enriching …

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the reorganisation of agencies under the Ministry of Aviation. The President approved the appointment of Kabir Mohammed as Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN). Until his appointment, Mohammed was the Regional General Manager (Central Region Airports) at FAAN and Chairman of the Aviation Roadmap Implementation Committee. Tayib Odunowo has …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday assented to eight Bills passed by the ninth National Assembly. In a statement in Abuja, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Babajide Omoworare said the President’s action was in accordance with the provisions of the Acts Authentication Act Cap. A2, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004. He …