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President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Muhammad Nami to replace Babatunde Fowler as chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). Fowler, whose tenure ended on Monday, was confirmed for a four-year tenure by the senate on December 9, 2015. He is expected to hand over to the most...

President Muhammadu Buhari has departed London, United Kingdom, for Nigeria and is expected late on Friday. #RevolutionNow Protesters had on Thursday gathered outside the Abuja House where Buhari was believed to have stayed to demand the release of rights activists, Omoyele Sowore and Olawale...

There has been so much noise about the amendment of PSCs in the deep offshore and inland basin production sharing contract (DOIBPSC) law which President Muhammadu Buhari signed on Monday. What’s PSC, for goodness sake? In the late 1980s and early 1990s, oil prices were very low and Nigeria was...

The Presidency may take over the management of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) from the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, as the power play among stakeholders in government may not allow the Commission to function optimally. The NDDC was hitherto in the Presidency before the...

President Muhammadu Buhari at a meeting with APC governors at the State House in Abuja on September 13, 2019. President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the Golden Eaglets of Nigeria for a fantastic beginning in the group opening match of FIFA World Cup Brazil 2019. Nigeria Under-17 football...

Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timiprey Sylva, yesterday declared that it is impossible for the Federal Government to recover a total $62 billion from International Oil Companies (IOCs) being revenue lost to oil exploration since 2003. The minister stated this while briefing State...

President Muhammadu Buhari’s government has developed a framework to train and equip, personnel to tackle insecurity. A statement by Odutayo Oluseyi of the Ministry of Police Affairs, said to this end, the Minister, Muhammad Maigari Dingyadi, has inaugurated a 12-member Ministerial interim...

Contrary to viral social media reports, President Buhari will not be getting married to the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq today. Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser on media and Publicity to President Buhari debunked the news in an...

President Muhammadu Buhari says some of the statistics about Nigeria published by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other foreign bodies are not accurate. The president made this statement shortly after meeting with the presidential economic advisory council (EAC) on...

ABUJA-WORKS and Housing Ministry got the lion’s share of President Muhammadu Buhari’s proposed N10.33 trillion 2020 ‘’budget of Sustaining Growth and job creation.”...... Read more via Vanguard Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2ASZMne Get More Nigeria Political News

Emir Sanusi Emir of Kano state, Muhammadu Sanusi II, says President Muhammadu Buhari needs to reduce the monthly take-home of the federal lawmakers and ministers because they receive a huge pay while a larger population of Nigerians are jobless. In a statement he addressed to Buhari, Sanusi...

President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday arrived in Pretoria, South Africa, for a state visit and 9th meeting of the Bi-National Commission. The president’s plane arrived in the South African Air force Base, Waterkloof, at 9.10 p.m., and he was received by Minister of International Relations and...

President Muhammadu Buhari has come under attack over his speech at the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA74). During an interactive session at the event being held in New York, the Nigerian leader was asked to talk about his plans for the future of Nigeria’s young...

The Northeast chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari on his victory at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT), saying the defeat of their son and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, Atiku Abubakar...

The presently trending hashtag on Twitter is #sackbuhari. This is the reaction of Nigerians on Twitter after the video where Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Lai Muhammed was pleading president Buhari’s behalf concerning his certificate got released and start...

Four days after PREMIUM TIMES revealed that the Minister of Defence was part of those who stole Nigeria’s wealth under dictator Sani Abacha, President Muhammadu Buhari is yet to comment. Bashir Magashi was one of the ministers President Buhari swore in last month after the new ministers were...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said the entire structure of the Nigeria Police Force, NPF, was being overhauled, re-positioned and primed with modern technological gadgets to meet rising challenges across the country. This was as he disclosed that an intelligence loop among all security...

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has claimed that the proscription of Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) had nothing to do with banning the larger numbers of peaceful and law-abiding Shi’ites in the country from practising their religion, asserting that terrorists have taken over the Muslim...

Flagrant extension of Senate rule, that former members of the National Assembly should not answer questions, whenever they appear before the Senate for screening, marred the ongoing ministerial screening yesterday. This is because the privilege, which the Senate Standing Rule specifies that...

President Muhammadu Buhari has felicitated with Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, on his 85th birthday, July 13, 2019. Buhari in a statement by his Special Adviser on (Media & Publicity) Femi Adesina rejoiced with the literary icon for being one of the country’s greatest prides, and a …...