Buhari

This Buhari has no boundaries

By FEMI ADESINA Many were the prayers and goodwill messages that sped our feet to Owerri, capital of Imo State, the Eastern Heartland, on September 9, 2021. Why were the people so effusive in prayers? We were considered as going…

Buhari swears in three INEC commissioners

President Muhammadu Buhari has sworn three new National Commissioners into the Independent National Electoral Commission. The commissioners were sworn in before the commencement of the weekly virtual Federal Executive Council meeting at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Those sworn in…

Buhari celebrates poet, journalist, Lindsay Barrett at 80

President Muhammadu Buhari has rejoiced with consummate author, journalist, poet, essayist, photographer and Pan-Africanist, Lindsay Barrett, as he turns 80 Sept. 15. Jamaica-born Barrett took Nigeria’s citizenship in the 1980s, and the President recalls meeting him at the warfront in…

SERAP tackles Buhari over communications shutdown in Katsina, Zamfara

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to “direct the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to immediately reverse the apparently unjustified suspension of internet and telecommunication…

Buhari meets NMA as doctors’ strike enters Day 40

The president, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), met with members of the Nigeria Medical Association at the State House, Abuja on Friday. The meeting is coming 40 days after the National Association of Resident Doctors declared an indefinite strike. The…