April 13, 2024
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…Says country’s unity won at a great cost. President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, in Abuja appealed to Nigerians to desist from actions and comments that could jeopardise the unity and progress of the nation. Launching the 2021 Armed Forces Remembrance Day (AFRD) Emblem and Appeal Fund, President Buhari said this year’s occasion reminds Nigerians of […]Continue Reading
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STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE At the last count, no fewer than 13 States have gone ahead to establish the Judicial Panels of Inquiry as resolved by the National Economic Council to address the question of redress and justice for victims of police brutality across the country. The States that have set up the panels so […]Continue Reading
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President Muhammadu Buhari’s independence day speech included claims about Nigeria’s historical and current population, the legacy of military rule, reduced government revenue, and oil prices in other countries. His claims about the country’s population at independence and today are correct, as is a claim about the years Nigeria has spent under military rule. But claims Continue Reading
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President Muhammadu Buhari Monday in Abuja declared that disbanding of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) is the first step to extensive police reforms by his administration. Speaking at the launch of the Presidential Youth Empowerment Scheme (P-YES), aimed at creating 774,000 jobs across the Local Government Areas (LGAs) in the country, President Buhari also directed Continue Reading
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After Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari controversially compared oil prices in Nigeria and Saudi Arabia as justification for repeated petrol price hikes since June 2020, some people in Nigeria have taken to social media with other comparisons between the two countries. A well-shared message posted on Facebook on 1 October makes a number of economic comparisons, […]Continue Reading
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2021 BUDGET SPEECH: The budget of Economic Recovery and Resilience  Delivered By: His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari President, Federal Republic of Nigeria At the Joint Session of the National Assembly, Abuja  Thursday, 8th October 2020 PROTOCOLS It is with pleasure that I present the 2021 Federal Budget Proposals to this Joint Session of the National Assembly. Continue Reading
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By Theophilus Abbah During a debate in 1959 at the threshold of Nigeria’s Independence, the late Tafawa Balewa had to respond to a question about the ominous ethnic division and rivalries that permeated the political space. The man who was to become Nigeria’s first prime minister, like a star-gazer, replied thus: “I’m confident that when […]Continue Reading
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Below is the text of Buhari’s broadcast on October 1, 2020 INDEPENDENCE DAY ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE OCCASION OF NIGERIA’S SIXTIETH INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY, THURSDAY 1ST OCTOBER 2020 Fellow Nigerians, I speak to you today as your President and fellow citizen on this epoch occasion […]Continue Reading
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As the National Assembly has called for position papers on constitution review, a former Federal Permanent Secretary, Chief Robert Audu, submitted the following proposal: STATE CREATION In June 2012, I responded to your predecessor’s call and submitted a Memorandum to then National Assembly Joint Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution on the subject […]Continue Reading
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A consortium of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) has asked the federal government to entrench the deregulation drive of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry by enacting appropriate legislation or embedding it as part of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) expected to be submitted to the National Assembly soon. The consortium also demanded that the […]Continue Reading