President Muhammadu Buhari will on Friday travel to London, UK, for a medical check-up. Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, disclosed this in a statement obtained by SaharaReporters. Buhari is expected back in the country in the second week of July. Since he assumed office on May 29, 2015, Buhari…
At least 30 students have been suspended by the Borno State College of Nursing and Midwifery management for refusing to welcome President Muhammadu Buhari when he visited the state on June 17. A letter of suspension from the college to one of the students obtained by SaharaReporters showed that they were suspended for one week…
The Borno State College of Nursing and Midwifery has suspended a student for refusing to welcome President Muhammadu Buhari when he visited the state on June 17. A letter of suspension from the college which was sighted by SaharaReporters on Thursday stated that the student, whose name had yet to be ascertained, was suspended for…
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, has explained the reason why President Muhammadu Buhari did not attend the burial of the late Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru, who died a in plane crash along with 10 other officers in Kaduna on Friday. Recall that COAS Attahiru and the…
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday, urged the Senate to approve a new external loan of N2,343,387,942,848.00, about $6.183billion, for the Federal Government to finance the 2021 budget deficit. Senate President Ahmad Lawan read Buhari’s letter of request on the floor of the Senate at plenary. Details soon….
President Muhammadu Buhari’s worsening dementia and other undisclosed health challenges are taking their toll on his ability to effectively coordinate meetings. Top sources in the Presidency told SaharaReporters that Buhari was not only incoherent but spoke for only a short time. It was learnt that he spoke in the same manner when he recently had…
The traditional rulers say the security situation is hard on their people and there is a need to take urgent and immediate steps to check the situation. The National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria, the umbrella body of all traditional rulers in the country, said this in a call on the federal government to…
President Muhammadu Buhari’s new Aide-de-Camp, Lt. Col Yusuf Dodo on Monday, February 22 resumed duties at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Colonel Mohammed Lawal Abubakar who has been President Buhari’s ADC from when he was first elected in 2015, will be proceeding to Santiago, Chile for a five-month Strategic and Defence Course from March 8. The course is…
New service chiefs that will now control the Nigerian Armed Forces are as follow: Major-General Leo Irabor, Chief of Defence Staff Major-General I. Attahiru, Chief of Army Staff Rear Admiral A.Z Gambo, Chief of Naval Staff Air-Vice Marshal I.O Amao, Chief of Air Staff. President Buhari congratulates the outgoing Service Chiefs on their efforts to…
The Presidency has announced that President Buhari will today December 31, 2020 sign into law the 2021 appropriation bill which was passed last week by the National Assembly. The legislators had approved N13.6 trillion (13,588,027,886,107) against the N13.08 trillion proposed by the president in October. The lawmakers added N505 billion to the proposed budget. ALSO READ:-For…
