Tag: Former Nigeria's president

@Yari’s Son’s Wedding: “We’ll continue to uphold Buhari’s legacies, ideals” – Tinubu, during visit to his family in Kaduna

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Tinubu@Yari’s son’s wedding

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday paid a solidarity visit to the Kaduna residence of Nigeria’s Late President, Muhammadu Buhari, assuring the Buhari family of upholding the Late leader’s legacies. The President, who led a powerful delegation of Nigeria’s political elite to Kaduna where he combined high-profile social and solemn family engagements, first attended the wedding fatiha of Nasirudeen AbdulAziz Yari, son of former Zamfara governor and serving senator, AbdulAziz Yari, who married Safiyya Shehu Idris at the historic Sultan Bello Mosque.  Tinubu personally received the groom’s hand-in-marriage on behalf of…

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Nigerians, others pay tribute to Late PMB, icon of integrity and service

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IBB pays tribute

Tributes have poured in from across the nation and beyond, celebrating the life and legacy of a leader whose name became synonymous with discipline, integrity, and unyielding patriotism. Recall that the former President and elder statesman passed away yesterday afternoon at a clinic in London following a prolonged illness. Former military President and longtime friend, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (rtd.), popularly known as IBB, in an emotional tribute, described Buhari as more than just a political leader, calling him a brother, friend, and patriot whose life spanned Nigeria’s critical transitions. …

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“Buhari rejected proposed ₦10m Aso Villa food budget: – Garba Shehu 

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Garba Shehu

Former Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, has revealed that ex-president Muhammadu Buhari was shocked when informed of a proposed ₦10 million food budget for the State House. Shehu disclosed this in his memoir: ‘According to the President: Lessons from a Presidential Spokesperson’s Experience’, which was launched in Abuja last Tuesday. According to him, the former president was briefed upon assuming office in 2015 that the food budget, covering meals for the president, vice-president, guest houses, and official banquets, needed to be raised to…

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“Buhari didnt want Tinubu to succeed him” – Ex Jigawa Gov. Sule Lami?o

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Lami?o on Tinubu PMB

Says Asiwaju knows he worked against him in 2023 Former Jigawa State governor, Sule Lami?o, has credited President Bola Tinubu for single-handedly engineering his emergence even though his party man and former President Muhammadu Buhari worked against him. In a recent interview, Lami?o, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, who made the shocking revelations, disclosed that Buhari never wanted Bola Tinubu to succeed him as President. Lami?o claimed that Buhari had his eyes on a different candidate, Ahmed Lawan, the former Senate President.  He also stated that Buhari didn’t trust…

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Book Launch: “Nigeria regressed by 50yrs under Buhari govt.” – Edwin Clark

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Convener of pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Edwin Clark, says the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari pushed the country five decades backward. Recall that on Tuesday, Femi Adesina, former media aide to Buhari launched a book he wrote, titled: Working with Buhari: Reflections of A Special Adviser, Media and Publicity (2015-2023). Another book, titled: Muhammadu Buhari: The Nigerian Legacy (Volume 1-5) was also unveiled at the event Speaking during the books launch, Buhari said Adesina did the country a favour by writing a book in his honour. The former presidential…

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Just In! Nigerias ex-President, Ernest Shonekan, 85, is dead

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Nigeria’s former President, Chief Ernest Shonekan, who headed the Interim National Government that succeeded General Ibrahim Babangida’s administration, has died. Shonekan died in Lagos at the age of 85. He was the interim head of the Nigerian Government between August 26 and November 17, 1993, when he was ousted in a coup, led by the Late General Sani Abacha. More details to follow

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