Tag Archives: #Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has canvassed for the speedy establishment of a single, unified market in Africa to increase trade, create more jobs and reduce poverty. The President made the call while presenting Nigeria’s position in favour of the Report on the establishment of a Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) and related issues presented by President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger Republic, ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has said it was disgraceful that no Nigerian refinery currently performs up to 50 per cent capacity. He recalled that during his tenure as a military Head of State, all the nation’s refineries were working. According to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, Buhari spoke when he received a delegation from ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed delight that more Nigerians are now getting involved in agriculture. He said the agricultural sector had witnessed steady and remarkable progress in the last two years, therefore significantly reducing the food import bill of the country. According to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, the President spoke while receiving ...

President Muhammadu Buhar has given an assurance that his administration would not rest in continually reviewing and strengthening the ongoing reforms in the agricultural sector until Nigeria regained her pride of place as a food-exporting country. Receiving the All Progressives Congress (APC) family from Kebbi State, in the Presidential Villa, on Friday, Buhari said that the country’s huge rice import ...

The claim by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, that the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru, inappropriately awarded contract for the N885 billion Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) gas pipeline project has been proved to be false. An investigation conducted by PREMIUM TIMES showed that President Muhammadu Buhari approved the contract after Baru ...

A co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls Campaign organisation, Aisha Yesufu, has berated President Muhammadu Buhari over the current fuel scarcity in the country. In a series of tweets, Aisha made reference to Buhari’s tweets in 2015 blaming then President Goodluck Jonathan for the fuel crisis in the country. Yesufu, who alleged that Buhari is a hypocrite, who has ...

The Federal Government has promised to increase investment in the health sector, so that the country can halt the loss of well trained professionals to other lands. President Muhammadu Buhari made the pledge when he received the executive members of Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria (MDCAN), at State House, Abuja, on Thursday. The President , who appreciated the ...

Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike, has commended President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government on the implementation of Treasury Single Account (TSA) and the Integrated Personnel Payroll System (IPPS). He, however, bemoaned that the system was marred with abuses in the areas of revenue collection and disclosures. Speaking on Monday at a 3-day Public Financial Management Retreat organised by the Office of ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has decided to take some days off ahead of his visit to France for One Planet Summit. Buhari was seen in his farm checking out his livestock and ,later went to take from it. “I’m spending a few days at home in Daura before I travel to France for the One Planet Summit. “Today I paid a ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of 30-member Tripartite Committee for the negotiation of a New National Minimum Wage for workers in the Country. According to a statement signed by Samuel Olowookere, Deputy Director, Press, Ministry of Labour and Employment, by its tripartite nature, the Committee is made up of persons from the public and the private sectors. “This ...