Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom, on Wednesday, said he has forgiven the President Muhammadu Buhari. Ortom disclosed this while responding to questions on Arise Television’s The Morning Show. Ortom had criticised the presidency for blaming his administration for the killings in the state. He described the attempts by the President to blame his government for the situation as “futile attempts …

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday commissioned the second Niger Bridge – the 1.6 kilometre bridge linking Asaba, Delta State with Onitsha, Anambra State and other South East states, which the Southeast governors announced has been named after the President. It was conceptualised in 2005. In 2014, there was an attempt to begin the project through Public Private Partnership, but that …

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Monday, said the stories of President Muhammadu Buhari; President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; and Chairman of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote are a testament that prosperity can be achieved when  leaders have shared vision for the people they are leading. Sanwo-Olu shared three different stories on how President Buhari, Tinubu and Dangote are connected …

President Muhammadu Buhari will be physically absent at the official commissioning of the Second Niger Bridge scheduled to hold on Tuesday. According to sources in the Ministry of Works and Housing, who do not want to be mentioned in print, the N336 billion bridge, regarded as a legacy project, will be commissioned alongside six other road projects by the president …

“What kind of landing is this”? That was President Muhammadu Buhari in November 2015 as the presidential jet made a difficult landing in Malta, which hosted the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting that year. The President and his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina; and the others in the aircraft were rattled by what was later explained to …

As the Dangote Refinery begins operations tomorrow (Monday), oil marketers have expressed optimism that the facility will help reduce the cost of petrol, if the government deregulates the commodity. Dangote Refinery, established by Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, is scheduled to be inaugurated on 22nd May. A presidential aide, Bashir Ahmad, had tweeted that the inauguration would be done …

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina has said that President Muhammadu Buhari enjoyed the respect of world leaders in his eight-year tenure. “I have had the privilege of travelling with the President in the past eight years and I can tell you that he enjoyed so much respect from world leaders”, Adesina said in …

The First Lady, Aisha Buhari, on Friday, in Abuja, said the newly inaugurated N21 billion presidential wing of the State House Medical Centre will end the need for future presidents and their family members seeking medical treatment abroad. She said this when she joined the President Muhammadu Buhari and other dignitaries for the commissioning ceremony of the facility situated in …

A popular saying tells us that ‘there’s no good in goodbye.’ Really? I’ve been turning it round in my head, and I think there may actually be some good in goodbye. In fact, a lot of good. Let’s go. I recently wrote about my ancestors and forebears in the presidential media office, those who had served since the 1970s. They …

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu has said that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration created 12 million new jobs in agriculture alone. In an interview on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily on Tuesday, the presidential spokesman said that the administration did well in many sectors including security, power, fighting corruption among others. “In …