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By, Onome Jackson Behold the flare from the Port Harcourt Refinery !….It is now official. The Port Harcourt Refinery has started full operations, for the first time in decades. The spokesperson of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Olufemi Soneye, confirmed this morning that the refinery has started operation and has reached 60% of its operational capacity. President Bola Tinubu ...
November, 2024
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2 November
Kicks as Russian flags holders at #EndBadGovernancearraigned
Protesters who were arrested during the August 1 to August 10 #EndBadGovernance demonstration were brought to a Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday. Videos of minors among the suspects have triggered outrage among Nigerians. Human rights activists, civil society groups, politicians, social commentators are among those who have criticised the Tinubu administration over the issue. While four of them, ...
June, 2022
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21 June
Presidency allays fears over Abdulsalami Abubakar’s illness..out of Hospital
The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu, has given an update on the state of health of former military Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar. The retired Army General was said to have suffered a partial stroke and was first flown to a hospital in the United Kingdom (UK). Shehu on his ...
February, 2021
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6 February
WTO: Coast clear for Okonjo-Iweala, excited by US support, thanks Buhari
Former Nigerian Finance Minister, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has expressed her excitement over the backing she got from the United States to lead World Trade Organisation Okonjo-Iweala made this known via her Twitter handle on Friday night. She also commended the President, Muhammadu Buhari, and Nigerians for their support. “Grateful for the expression of support from the US today for DG ...
October, 2020
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1 October
Buhari addresses Nigerians..51 paragraphs message @ independence
Fellow Nigerians I speak to you today as your President and fellow citizen on this epoch occasion of our country’s 60th independence Anniversary. As President, I wish to renew my appreciation to Nigerians for entrusting me with your hopes and aspirations for a better and greater Nigeria. 2. Today, it is my unique privilege to re-commit myself to the service ...
January, 2019
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9 January
Buhari faces the fact.. “Igbo ‘ll not vote for me, they’re one way… “
President Muhammadu Buhari has said “I don’t believe that the SE do not like me. I didn’t win there, just like Ojukwu didn’t win there too. Atiku lost there too. Chief Falae lost there too. I think Chief Abiola lost there too because the region was majorly rooting for the NRC. But General Obasanjo won there, President Yar’adua won there, President ...
May, 2016
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13 May
President Buhari, Cameron and Corruption By Reuben Abati
“We have got the leaders of some fantastically corrupt countries coming to Britain… Nigeria and Afghanistan, possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world”,UK Prime Minister David Cameron was caught on tape telling the Queen ahead of the anti-corruption summit organized by the UK Government, this week, which was attended by Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari. This diplomatic gaffe rubbed ...
March, 2016
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20 March
Journalists Have Nothing To Fear From FG – Minister
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said journalists in Nigeria have nothing to fear from the Nigerian government in the performance of their duties. ”Under this dispensation, we have never even contemplated stifling the freedom of the media not to talk of hounding them to death,” the Minister said in Doha on Sunday when he featured as a ...
February, 2016
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16 February
Ooni Prays For Buhari In Aso Rock
The Ooni’s visit to Aso rock comes after the president received President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia and Pastor Adeboye. The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi,arrived the Presidential Villa, Abuja at about 1.10pm, was received by President Muhammadu Buhari and vice president, Yemi Osinbajo. He arrived at the State House a few minute after Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the ...
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15 February
$2.1b arms fund: Soft landing likely for those returning loot
Constitutional lawyer and Presidential Anti-corruption Advisory Committee Chairman Prof. Itse Sagay has hinted of a possible soft landing for treasury looters and corrupt politicians, who return their shares of the $2.1 billion arms procurement and other loot traced to them. Sagay, in an interview with The Nation in Warri, Delta State at the weekend, confirmed that some members of the ...
