[Nigeria @60] Full Speech: Buhari’s Independence Day Address
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…
Buhari Continues Blame Game, Heaps Nigeria’s Woes On Obasanjo, Others
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday continued the blame game that has characterised his administration in blaming past leaders for Nigeria’s woes. In his Independence Day speech marking Nigeria’s 60hth anniversary,…
Editorial: Nigeria @ 60 – Divided We Stand…
Predictably, President Muhammadu Buhari like his predecessors, will used the yearly commemoration of the nation’s independence to trumpet the achievements of his administration over the last five years, with bogus…
P&ID: Foreign Reserves swell as Cash-strapped Nigeria gets $200m refund
Cash-strapped Nigeria has had its foreign reserves boosted following a London Commercial Court’s $200million security guarantee release for the stay of execution of Process and Industrial Development Limited’s (P&ID’s) claims…
Bayelsa, Rivers Renew fight over Soku Oil Wells
The fight between Bayelsa and Rivers States over the ownership of Soku oil wells has flared up again, pitting the governors against each other. The two sister states have been…
INEC and the challenge of free, fair and credible elections
The success of the recent Edo gubernatorial election notwithstanding, it is just as well that the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, has read the…
Nigerians face uncertain future -Jega
Prof Attahiru Jega, the former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, who conducted the 2015 election that ushered President Muhammadu Buhari into office, warned on Friday that Nigerians faced…
Boko Haram Terrorists Kill 24 in Borno State
Boko Haram fighters on Friday killed at least 24 persons in an ambush on the volatile Borno State, the Police have said. Those killed included eight Policemen, part of those…
The President`s Taxes: Long-Concealed Records Show Trump`s Chronic Losses & Years of Tax Avoidance
The Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due. Donald…
Labour suspends planned strike, as FG shelves electricity tariff, fuel price hikes
Nigeria’s two industrial unions on Monday shelved their planned nationwide strike over the recent hikes in electricity tariff and pump price of petrol. The Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade…