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President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulate Nigerians, particularly the Muslims faithful on the Eid-El- celebrations. The president in a statement on Thursday, August 31, signed by his special adviser on media and publicity, Femi Adesina, extended the Sallah message to Muslims who are currently in Saudi Arabia to participate in the rites of the Hajj. He said: “From the outset, I want to use this opportunity to thank all Nigerians who prayed for my recovery and have continued to extend their goodwill and support after my return to the country. "Indeed your fervent and sincere prayers, which cut across religion, political and ethnic divides, has energised me to re-dedicate myself and this administration to the task of building a great Nigeria." The president appealed to Nigerians to strengthen the bonds of friendship and unity to keep the country together. He said: “We must learn to see ourselves as brothers and sisters from the same heritage, who must come to terms w...

The US President, Donald Trump will donate $1 million of his fortune to recovery efforts in Texas, the White House says he hasn't determined which group or groups will receive the donation. "He would like to join in the efforts that a lot of people we have seen across the country do," press secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters at the White House, saying the funds would come from the President's "personal money." She said the President hadn't determined which organization to support. "He actually asked that I check with the folks in this room since you are very good at research and have been doing a lot of reporting into the groups and organizations that are best and most effective in helping and providing aid, and he'd like some suggestions from the folks here and I'd be happy to take those," she said during the daily press briefing. On Tuesday, the President's campaign asked supporters to donate to charities involved in t...

Youths For Change NG, an umbrella group of Nigerian youths, has urged Government to critical action Fani-Kayode former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode for falsehood, personal insults, acrimony and sheer hatred and abusive language. The group’s National Leader, Mr Seun Bobade,made the call in a statement on Thursday in Ilorin, stressing that sometime the abusive language by the former minister bothered on hate speech. Bobade slammed the former minister “for his ranting and increasingly unsubstantiated allegations’’ which he said were becoming an embarrassment, particularly to youths who had seen him as role model. He noted that Fani-Kayode had alleged that Mohammed, Adesina and the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) had threatened to shut down a TV station if it aired his interview. “The media must hold Fani-Kayode to a higher standard. They should not just regurgitate his allegations without asking him to substantiate such. After all, it’s trite-law that he who alleges...

A pan-Yoruba sociopolitical group, Afenifere, has warned President Muhammadu Buhari to restructure the country as soon as possible to avoid catastrophe. In a statement released in a monthly meeting in Akure, Ondo state, the group said it disagrees with President Buhari's recent comment that the issue of restructuring should be left solely in the hands of National Assembly and the Council of State, Tribune reports. The statement reads: “We are not impressed by the president’s broadcast after his return, especially his stand on the restructuring which, he said, is a matter only for the National Assembly and the Council of State. “We do not agree that the sovereignty in the land rests with these two bodies but sovereignty rests with the people and the people, therefore, must be the one to determine the way forward for the country in crisis. “We believe at this point now that we need a constitution assembly elected by the people of Nigeria to deal with the question of restructu...

The aims of the meeting between the South East Governor's Forum, SEGF, and Nnamdi Kanu include general security issues bedeviling the country in general and the southeast geopolitical zone in particular. It was said that the issues discussed also included the application by the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, Abubakar Malami SAN, for Kanu to be re-arrested for allegedly breaching his bail conditions among other sundry matters. The meeting was said to be a continuous process. The meeting which held at the Government House, Enugu, the governors promised to engage in further dialogue with the pro-Biafra group, even as they told Kanu that IPOB’s demands "should not be absolute". The Governors present at the meeting were Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi; Governor of Enugu, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi; and Anambra Deputy Governor, Nkem Okeke. Their Imo and Abia state counterparts, Rochas Okorocha and Okezie Ikpeazu, were said to have travelled outside Nigeria. Re...

GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike has been invited to Chatham house, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, an independent policy institute based in London to speak on development issues in the country. Governor Wike who played host to a visit from Chatham house in Government House, Port Harcourt Wednesday said anti corruption agencies could only achieve meaningful impact in the anti graft war when they operated independently from political manipulations. He said: “It is difficult to fight corruption when the institutions are weak. It may just be a political tool to attract sympathy from western countries. "In Nigeria, the institutions are subservient to the President. Here, Police is central, but the institution is now being used for illegal acts. That is corruption". "The fight against corruption must be holistic. It should not be a political weapon against opponents of the government. We have instances of mass corruption in the state, but Federal agencies frustrat...

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday received a standing ovation from members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) at the presidential villa, Abuja. Its a first meeting since April. It's over 100 days of which he was out of Nigeria for medical treatment, the president has missed five consecutive meetings, two of which were canceled. Last week President Buhari cancelled FEC meeting to receive the report of the Prof. Yemi Osinbajo-led presidential investigative panel on alleged corruption cases against the suspended secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Babachir David Lawal and the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke. At Wednesday’s meeting, ministers offered prayers for the president, who had earlier before the commencement of the meeting, met with the Nigerian women basketball team who recently emerged African champions.