Says What Is Lacking in Tackling Insecurity is Political Will by Executive The national chairman of the Zenith Labour Party, ZLP Dan Iwuanyanwu has cautioned the National Assembly against impeaching the President Muhammadu Buhari or demanding his resignation over his inability to tackle the present security challenges confronting the country, stating categorically that such move…
Insecurity: Buhari Urges U.S to Relocate AFRICOM Headquarters to Africa
[responsivevoice buttonposition=”after”] As the insecurity in the Lake Chad Basin worsens with the killing of President Idris Deby of Chad, President Muhammadu Buhari, Tuesday, urged the United States of America, USA to reconsider relocating US Africa Command, AFRICOM, from Stuttgart, Germany, to Africa, nearer the theatre of operation, to avoid spillovers in the sub-region. In…
Eghosa Osaghae, former Igbinedion University VC is new NIIA DG
[responsivevoice buttonposition=”after”] The immediate past Vice Chancellor of Igbinedion University, Okada, IUO Edo State, and a tenured professor of Comparative Politics, University of Ibadan, Eghosa Emmanuel Osaghae, has been appointed as the Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, NIIA, Lagos, by President Muhammadu Buhari. The news of Osaghae’s appointment was shared by Obajide…
Buhari’s Northernisation of Nigeria Police Force
[responsivevoice buttonposition=”after”] I had on February 4, in a widely reported press release, coupled with outing on Channels TV (Politics Today), kicked against the extension of Ex-Inspector General of Police, IGP Mohammed Adamu’s tenure. I had termed it as not only “patently glaringly illegal, unconstitutional”, but also “because he was denying other members of the…
Buhari Approves Three Appointments in Aviation
[responsivevoice buttonposition=”after”] President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the reappointment of Akin Olateru, the Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer of Accident Investigation Bureau, Nigeria (AIB-N), who ended his first tenure in December 2020. According to a statement signed by James Odaudu, the Director, Public Affairs of the Ministry of Aviation, . The ministry said: “President Buhari…
My Comment on APC Revalidation Exercise Misconstrued, says Oshiomhole
[responsivevoice] …As he Reaffirms Loyalty to President Buhari. Former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has dismissed insinuations in some quarters that his recent comments on the ongoing membership revalidation of the APC was an affront to President Muhammadu Buhari and the leadership of the party. Oshiomhole therefore reaffirmed his ‘unquestionable…
WTO: President Buhari Felicitates with Okonjo-Iweala for Bringing Honour to Nigeria
[responsivevoice] President Muhammadu Buhari, Monday, congratulated Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former Nigeria’s minister for finance and foreign affairs, for her selection as the director general of the World Trade Organization, W.T.O. In a statement issued on Monday by Garba Shehu, senior special assistant on media and publicity, Buhari said she has brought joy and more honour to…
President Buhari Woos Youths to Participate in Politics
[responsivevoice] President Muhammadu Buhari, Thursday in Abuja, urged Nigerian youths to join politics and salvage their country because “the future we envisage as a country cannot happen without our youths.” He appealed to youths who are members of ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to participate massively in the party’s ongoing membership re-validation exercise across the…
Outpouring of Grief, Eulogy As Nigerians Mourn Tony Momoh
[responsivevoice] The death, Monday evening, of former Information and Culture Minister and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Tony Momoh, a scion of the Auchi royal family, has evoked outpouring of grief, emotions and encomiums from prominent Nigerians with the President Muhammadu Buhari, as the chief mourner. Late Momoh had been a very close political…
All Eyes on New Service Chiefs to Kick Out Boko Haram, Bandits
[responsivevoice] Will the change of guard in military leadership make the difference in the war against terror? The appointment of four new military service chiefs by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, January 26, came to many critics as an anti-climax in the war against insurgency and banditry in Nigeria. The replaced service chiefs had atrophied…
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