Tag: Presidency

‘Amnesty Int’l’s assessment of Nigerian govt. mere ranting, biased’ – Presidency Spokesman

Aminu Imam

The Presidency has taken Amnesty International to the cleaners yesterday, accusing it of assessing Nigerian on some biased standards, it cannot lay claims to upholding in its entirety. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, rose in defence of the federal government when he accused the London-based organisation of taking sides with the proscribed terrorist group, Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB). According to Shehu, Amnesty International’s latest salvo at Nigeria is but more of the same. “Again, they have decided to side with terrorists, before…

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FG to place 20,000 Nigerian graduates in fully paid jobs

Aminu Imam

The federal government has disclosed plans to employ 20,000 young Nigerian graduates in fully paid one-year roles in public and private organisations. This is according to presidential spokesperson, Tolu Ogunlesi. According to Ogunlesi, President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to announce this on Tuesday when applications for the Nigeria Jubilee Fellows Programme and its host organizations officially commence. The programme aims to place 20,000 skilled young Nigerian graduates (under the age of 30) into jobs in private and public sector organisations around the country. The jobs will last for 12 months,…

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“What Buhari has done to AK-47 wielding bandits worse than declaring them as terrorists” – Garba Shehu

Aminu Imam

Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, says what the Federal Government has done to AK-47-wielding bandits is worse than designating them as terrorists. Shehu, who spoke in an interview with BBC News Pidgin Service yesterday, was responding to a question on why the regime of his principal, President Muhammadu Buhari, has not outlawed blood-sucking bandits just as the current government proscribed the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB) and moved to do the same to Yoruba nation secessionist group. “What the Buhari administration has done to the arms-wielding bandits is worse than being…

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‘Nigeria is filled with haters of government and even God’, Femi Adesina laments

Aminu Imam

Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has said that the reactions of Nigerians towards the attack on the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) confirmed that “our country is filled with haters of government, of humanity, of good, and even of God”. The presidential spokesman, who stated this in his article, titled: “It’s Evil, Pure and Simple“,  noted that many Nigerians acted like they were concerned about the attack but were actually rejoicing. According to his article, “The news headlines, the slant of the stories, the analyses…

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Presidency accuses Ortom inciting violence against Fulani

Aminu Imam

The President Muhammadu Buhari government has accused Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom of inciting violence against people of Fulani ethnic group across the country. Ortom, whose State has been under series of attacks by suspected Fulani herdsmen, is a vocal critic of President Buhari, who he accuses of protecting the interest of the Fulani to the detriment of those of other Nigerians. The governor, while appearing on a television programme yesterday, further accused the president of pursuing Fulanisation agenda with his latest attempt to impose grazing reserves for herders in…

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Bandits kidnap son of Buhari’s Admin Officer, Abubakar Maikano

Aminu Imam

Bandits have abducted the son of President Muhammadu Buhari’s top aide and Administrative Officer in the Presidential Villa, Abubakar Maikano. Sanusi Maikano, who is in his early 40s, is the third child of the prseidential aide. Security sources in Kaduna said the young man was kidnapped on Saturday, around 8:30 pm, after returning from his farmhouse. Witnesses said Sanusi was abducted in his residence in Gwantu, headquarters of Sanga local government area in Kaduna State, which is about two hours drive to the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The armed bandits, numbering…

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Medical trip: Presidency says Yemi Osinbajo can act as president after 21 days

Aminu Imam

The Presidency has explained the circumstances under which Vice President Yemi Osinbajo would act as president following President Muhammadu Buhari’s medical trip to the UK. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina,  while disclosing the role the VP will play while Buhari is away in the UK during an interview on a television programme, said the Constitution empowers Yemi Osinbajo to act as president if Buhari is not back to the country within 21 days. The aide also dismissed the suggestion that Buhari’s trip abroad has created a power…

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Presidency, UNICEF to inaugurate expanded schemes for Nigerian youths

Aminu Imam

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and the United Nations International Children’s Emergency will inaugurate an intervention effort for young Nigerians. Named ‘Generation Unlimited’, (GenU), the collaboration between the Federal Government and UNICEF will be inaugurated on July 26. It is aimed at urgently supporting expanded education, training and employment opportunities for young people aged 10 years to 24 years on an unprecedented scale. The collaboration is a global multi-sector partnership that was initially launched in September 2018, in collaboration with over 200 partners. It has reached, to date, more than 100 million…

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Non-existing office of Buhari’s Chief Economic Adviser allegedly gets N573m in 5 yrs – Report

Aminu Imam

The Office of the Chief Economic Adviser to the President, (OCEAP), got approval for the sum of N573.45 million as capital allocations in the last five years without a clear identity of presidential appointee answerable to the fund’s utilisation, an investigate finding by the ICIR have shown. From the above N573.45 million capital budgets, the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF) under the Federal Ministry of Finance, released a total sum of N114.97 million (N114,971,989) to the contentious office for its operations. This literally excludes N12.1 million…

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Presidency replies Niger Delta Avengers, says threats unnecessary

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Presidency has frowned at threats by a group, Niger Delta Avengers, to bomb nation’s oil installations unless their demands including restructuring of the federation were met by the Federal Government within 90 days. Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, condemned the threats in a statement in Abuja on Sunday. He noted that the media was on Sunday awash with reports on the threats and demands by the group to embark on economic sabotage through bombing of critical oil and gas installations unless…

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