I knew Femi Adesina when he was “Daddy Tobi”. He still is, of course. But back in the day when we were neighbours in Olowora Inside, a Lagos suburb, when you could call to a neighbour from your frontage, often by using the name of their first child, that was how we called Femi: Daddy Tobi. I have heard people …

Former Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has described the book by former Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to former President Muhammadu Buhari, Chief Femi Adesina, as “very wise and proactive”, as it gives the “the most reliable account’ of his experiences at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja. Osinbajo made the comment in Lagos over the weekend when Adesina …

President Bola Tinubu on Saturday celebrated his friend and ally, former President Muhammadu Buhari, who he described as an “icon of truth, justice, and patriotism”. Buhari, who handed over to President Tinubu last 29th May, will be 81 on Sunday. President Tinubu extols the peerless leadership credentials and feats of the former President, recalling his meritorious service to the nation …

The Comptroller-General of Customs, Adewale Adeniyi has said that the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) lost N1.3 trillion to waivers and concessions the administration of then President Muhammadu Buhari granted to investors this year. NCS also said that it was not privy to details of the Customs $3.2 billion modernisation project. Buhari completed his eight-year tenure on 29th May. At a …

A magistrates’ court sitting in Minna, Niger State has sentenced Gambo Adamu to 12 months in prison for deceitfully contracting a marriage between his mother-in-law, Sa’adatu Aliyu and former President Muhammadu Buhari. In October 2019, the Presidency had to dismiss wide rumours that the then President Buhari was getting married to his Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster and Management, Hajia …

The Federal High Court, Abuja has ordered the disclosure of the spending details of about US$5 billion funds from Nigeria’s late Head of State, General Sani Abacha (known as Abacha loot) recovered by the governments of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan, and Muhammadu Buhari. The Freedom of Information suit, from which the order emerged, was brought …

Former President Muhammadu Buhari has said that he left Daura, Katsina State, for London, United Kingdom because he wanted to stay in a quiet place. He explained that visitors have been trooping to visit him while in his hometown of Daura. A statement by Buhari’s ex-media aide, Malam Garba Shehu reads: “He chose to go home in Daura hoping to find …

Spokesperson to former President Muhammadu Buhari, Malam Garba Shehu, on Thursday, denied that the former leader asked his successor not to investigate some ministers under the previous government. He also said Buhari had left Daura for London to get some needed rest which, constant visits from well-wishers, had denied him. “If social media is to be believed, former President Muhammadu …

Those familiar with road travel before fancy luxury buses and jeeps displaced wooden-back Bedford light trucks, famously called mammy wagons, might remember this ubiquitous message in cursive, bright colours scrawled on the rear and sometimes on the sides of trucks plying highways in Nigeria’s South-East: “No condition is permanent”. I’m not quite sure what the motivation was. My guess is …

Former President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in his hometown in Daura, Katsina State. Buhari had left Eagle Square in Abuja immediately after Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Senator Kashim Shettima were sworn in as President and Vice President. Flanked by members of his cabinet who came to say goodbye at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on Monday, Buhari bade …