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ASUU Strike: Buhari Begs Lecturers to Return to Classrooms

1Oct

By Osaretin BalogbanNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria

ASUU Strike: Buhari Begs Lecturers to Return to Classrooms

President Muhammadu Buhari has called for the members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off the eight months strike embarked on by the Union. See Also: ASUU Says FG Can Resolve Eight-Month Strike in Two Days Buhari implored lecturers to return to classrooms during his Independence Day anniversary speech on Saturday. He assured the demands of the lecturers will eventually be met but within the limits of scarce resources. He said ” I’m using this independence Day celebration to reiterate my call for the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities to return to the classroom while assuring them to deal with their contending issues within the limits of the scarce resources available. “This administration has made appreciable progress in redressing ...

Insecurity Will End in 2022- President Buhari

25Sep

By Osaretin BalogbanNo Comments

News, Nigeria

Insecurity Will End in 2022- President Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has promised the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi that he will end insecurity in the country before the year ends. See Also: Tinubu Urges APC to Do More Ahead of 2023 Elections The president who was represented by the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, spoke at the 2022 Olojo Festival as it culminated on Saturday. The President said, “We must be vigilant, we must not leave the work of security for our security agencies alone, else, there will be problem. All of us must be concerned about security. The government will play its part, and I want to assure you that the little areas where we are encountering security challenges, we will overcome them before the end of 2022." “We must work together with security agencies to win the challenges of i...

Wike Alleges Assistance by PDP Chieftains in Buhari’s Re-election In 2019

7Sep

By Osaretin BalogbanNo Comments

Nigeria

Wike Alleges Assistance by PDP Chieftains in Buhari’s Re-election In 2019

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, claims some members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, negotiated for President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election in 2019. Without disclosing any names, Wike accused some PDP chieftains of helping Buhari to be re-elected during the 2019 presidential election. The Governor stated this on Tuesday when commissioning the Rivers State University Campus in Etche, Rivers State. See Also: How Buhari, Amaechi Interfered In 2019 Rivers Election – Wike “When they were going to negotiate with President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019, they came to me and I said no; no negotiation; PDP must win. I said no," Wike claimed. “That was why Buhari won the election. Those of them who made sure PDP never survived since 2015, that destroyed PDP, I see them today ...

Terrorists Threaten to Kidnap Buhari and El-Rufai

25Jul

By Osaretin BalogbanNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security, Terrorism

Terrorists Threaten to Kidnap Buhari and El-Rufai

Terrorists threaten to kidnap President Muhammadu Buhari and Kaduna Governor Nasir el-Rufai if they fail to meet their demands. The group of terrorists is suspected to be behind the Abuja-Kaduna train abduction back in March. The terrorists were seen in a new video torturing the captives abducted from the Abuja-Kaduna train and thereafter making demands from the government. See Also: Report Terrorists That Live Among You, Buhari Begs Nigerians One of the terrorists who spoke in the Hausa dialect said some of the abductees will be sold off as slaves just like they did with the chibok girls if the demands of the group are not fulfilled by the government. “He said: “This is our message to the government of Nigeria and just as you have seen these people here, by God’s grace...

Garba Shehu Reacts to Buhari’s Unscheduled Return, Buhari’s London trip stands

6Mar

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

News, Nigeria

Garba Shehu Reacts to Buhari’s Unscheduled Return, Buhari’s London trip stands

The Presidency has explained President Muhammadu Buhari’s scheduled trip to the United Kingdom for medical checkup stands. Buhari, on Friday afternoon, returned to Abuja from a three-day visit to Nairobi in Kenya where he participated in United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) 50th-anniversary event. The President, who touched down at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja around 1 pm, was initially scheduled to proceed to London from Nairobi, for two-week medical checks. However, the Presidency confirmed the initial plans for the President’s trip to London for his medical checks remain. See Also: London Trip: Buhari has no Need to Transfer Power to Osinbajo – Presidency Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Sh...

ASUU To FG: You Are Slave Merchants to IMF

21Feb

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Economy, Education, Finance, News, Nigeria

ASUU To FG: You Are Slave Merchants to IMF

Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has described the federal government of Nigeria and the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration as slave merchants. The union said the federal government led by Buhari only listens and implements destructive policy recommendations of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank against the interest of the citizens. The union maintained that the government treats lecturers like slaves because of poor policies formulated and implemented in the education sector. ASUU Chairman at the University of Ibadan, Professor Ayo Akinwole made these disclosures in a statement made available to DAILY POST in Ibadan on Sunday. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) had last week commenced a one-month warning strike. ...

President Buhari Receives Briefing On Situation In Guinea-Bissau

7Feb

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Africa, News, Security

President Buhari Receives Briefing On Situation In Guinea-Bissau

President Muhammadu Buhari Sunday morning got a comprehensive briefing on the coup attempt to oust President Umaru Sissoco Embalo of Guinea-Bissau, but which was aborted by loyalist forces. On the sidelines of the African Union Summit of Heads of State and Government held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Nigerian President met with Senior Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guinea-Bissau, Suzi Barbosa, who gave a graphic presentation of the attempt to overthrow the constitutional order in her country. See Also: ECOWAS to Convene Emergency Meeting Over Mali Coup “They attempted to kill President Embalo. They destroyed the presidential palace with bazookas, killed 11 young people. It took about five hours to restore order. It was a nightmare ,” she said. President B...

BREAKING: Buhari makes fresh appointments for ICPC, RMAFC

28Sep

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

News, Nigeria

BREAKING: Buhari makes fresh appointments for ICPC, RMAFC

President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the Senate to confirm five Commissioner - nominees to fill vacant positions at the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC). He also urged the Upper Chamber to confirm another nominee for appointment as a Federal Commissioner of the Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC). The President’s requests were contained in two separate letters read by Senate President Ahmad Lawan on the floor at plenary. See Also: Buhari: Saudi Arabia Cuts Oil Production To Help Nigeria President Buhari in one of the letters explained that his request for confirmation of his nominees for appointment in ICPC was in accordance with the provision of Section 3(6) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offence...