Ridding the country of terrorists and oil thieves has not been an easy fix for the Buhari government.
President Buhari said so in Abuja on Thursday while receiving President Faure Gnassingbe of Togo at the Presidential Villa.
Buhari said that his administration is saddled with the difficult tasks of fighting insurgents in the North East, oil thieves in the South South and providing infrastructure for the citizens.
Noting that development is impossible without security, Buhari called for cooperation among African countries to fight insurgency...
Thursday, 10 September 2015
Following claims by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP governors that President Buhari is turning Nigeria into a dictatorship, APC chieftain, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has risen to the defense of the President.
Tinubu was in Aso Rock Villa, Abuja on Wednesday in the company of Senator Shehu Sani and Chief Bisi Akande to confer with President Buhari.
According to him, "He (Buhari) was elected on a platform of democracy; he has adhered to the rule of law so far. What is dictatorship about what he has done? He has helped to stimulate the economy in the various...
An Israeli construction worker was killed on Wednesday at Apo Mechanic Village, Abuja during a kidnap attempt.
According to an eyewitness account, the late staff of Gilmore Construction Company was one his way to a construction site when he was intercepted by a gang of four men in a Toyota saloon car.
They dragged him out of his car and attempted to force him into their own, but in the scuffle that ensued as he resisted abduction, they fatally shot him.
The gunshot sound was said to have attracted the police who engaged the hoodlums in a gun...
To sustain the present nationwide availability of petroleum products, the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC has signed an interim Offshore Processing Agreement (OPA) with three of its joint venture partners. The companies are Duke Oil, Carlson and Napoil.
In a statement issued yesterday, the corporation's spokesman, Ohi Alegbe said that under the OPA arrangement which is expected to run for three months, the NNPC will allocate a certain volume of crude oil for refining at offshore locations in exchange for refined petroleum products...
Members of the Senate probe panel on the power sector yesterday halted their sitting following incessant power outages.
THE NATION reports that a total of eight power outages occurred within four hours, forcing the panel to bring the day's proceedings to an early end.
According to THE NATION, the first power failure happened around 2.30 p.m. when the Permanent Secretary,Ministry of Power, Ambassador Godknows Igali was speaking on behalf of the various electricity generating and distributing companies. The first outage lasted for 10 minutes,...
President Muhammadu Buhari says that he is having a tough time concluding the process of selecting his ministers. He attributed this to the massive rot in the system.
However, he reaffirmed his commitment to have his cabinet in place before the end of September. He said ;
“The process is difficult to finish. So, we would continue the screening to come up with people that deserve to hold the positions. This is because, what I see daily in terms of the damage inflicted on Nigeria in the last 10 years is enormous. Only God knows its magnitude."
Giving...
Wednesday, 9 September 2015
President Muhammadu Buhari has described the NNPC as the biggest avenue for stealing the country's resources.
He told the BBC that he dissolved the board of the corporation in order to address this situation.
“The biggest area of stealing of Nigeria’s funds was through NNPC, which is the apex oil selling corporation. That was why we dissolved their board and brought someone who knows the oil sector very well, but who is not from NNPC and entrusted him with the leadership of the NNPC. And instead of the eight major departments, four were liquidated...
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