By Nwaorgu Faustinus The Greater Together New Media Team, GTNMT, has commended President Muhammadu Buhari and the Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, for demonstrating extraordinary and sincere commitment to the development of Nigeria, and in particular, the Niger Delta region by insisting that the Lagos-Calabar Rail project be captured in the 2016 Budget in spite…
President Muhammadu Buhari says he has directed security agencies across the country to henceforth deal decisively with any herdsmen that attack innocent Nigerians. Buhari made this known when he received the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, CBCN, at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Monday. He said his administration is prepared to deal decisively and…
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has written to the Chinese government to withdraw the $2 billion loan it promised to give to Nigeria. Fayose, in his letter addressed to the President of China, Xi Jinping, said Nigerians are totally against the loan. The letter, dated April 12, 2016, with reference number EK/GOV/28/10, noted that…
The Presidency has reacted to an article published on April 12, 2016, in The Telegraph (London) paper, by one Con Coughlin (identified as ‘Defence Editor’), and titled, ‘Nigeria using UK aid to persecute president’s political foes rather to fight Boko Haram.’ In a statement issued on Wednesday by the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu…
President Muhammadu Buhari said the Federal Government will henceforth deal with vandals of pipeline installations across the country like Boko Haram terrorists. Buhari made this known on Wednesday in Beijing, China, and warned vandals and saboteurs blowing up oil and gas installations in Nigeria to desist immediately or be dealt with by the Armed Forces.…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday attended the official opening ceremony of the Business Forum on China/Nigeria Production Capacity Cooperation in Beijing, China. The Nigerian leader is in the Asian country for a state visit. He left for the country on Sunday night and arrived China the next day. Buhari, at the forum, met with Chairman…
Governor Ayodele Fayose has kicked against plans by the Federal Government to increase Value Added Tax, VAT, from the current five per cent to 10 per cent, describing it as insensitive to the plight of Nigerians, who he said are suffering from the bad economic policies of the President Mohammadu Buhari led All Progressives Congress,…
President Muhammadu Buhari was on Friday, April 8, 2016, not present at the emergency Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting held at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Reason for his absence was not disclosed to State House correspondents. Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, took his place and presided over the meeting. It was learnt that details…
Former Nigeria’s President, Olusegun Obasanjo, on Thursday, April 7, 2016, paid a courtesy visit to President Muhammadu Buhari. The former Head of State was at the Presidential Villa in Abuja to see the President ostensibly for a serious matter. Obasanjo was seeing Buhari again after he made a similar visit to him in 2015, soon…
Renowned human rights lawyer, Femi Falan, SAN, has lambasted the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government, saying the current hardship Nigerians are going through were never asked for. The respected lawyer, speaking at the Central Working Committee, CWC, meeting of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, held on Wednesday, April 6, 2016, said he is in support…