We Are Determined To Continue With The Fight Against Terrorism - Buhari Says In Easter Message To Nigerians

President Buhari in his 2017 Easter to Nigerians says it is in our collective interest to live in peace because without peace, no meaningful and sustainable development can take place. Read his piece below...

I congratulate our Christian brothers and sisters on the celebration of this year’s Easter. I rejoice with you on this historic occasion signifying the triumph of good over evil, light over darkness, redemption over condemnation, and hope over despair. The commemoration of this special season in Christianity, is always preceded by fasting, piety, humility, penance and prayers of intercession in the build up to the death of Jesus Christ on Good Friday, an event which reunited man with his Creator.

Buhari Fires PenCom, CPC, BPE Bosses, 20 Others

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday relieved the heads of 23 Federal Government agencies of their appointments and approved the appointment of their replacements.

Among those fired are the erstwhile Director-General, National Pension Commission, Mrs. Chinelo Anohu-Amazu; her counterpart in the Consumer Protection Council, Mrs. Dupe Atoki; and the Acting Director-General, Bureau of Public Enterprises, Dr. Vincent Akpotaire.

President Buhari Shares Photo From His UK Vacation, A Twitter User Reacts To It (Funny Indeed)

Some people have no chill!

President Buhari Regrets Accidental Bombing, Condoles With Families Of The Dead

President Buhari has received with deep sadness and regret, the accidental bombing of a civilian community in Rann, Borno State, by the Nigerian Air Force, engaged in the final phase of mopping up insurgents in the North-east.

At least 120 people were wounded and 52 killed in the aerial bombing including ten humanitarian Aid workers with Red Cross and MSF International.

President Buhari condoles with families of the dead, wishes the wounded divine succour, leading to full recovery, and sympathizes with the Borno State government.

The President pledges federal help for the state government in attending to "this regrettable operational mistake," and pleads for calm, even as he prays God to grant repose to the souls of the dead.

"Boko Haram Is A Godless Group" - Pres Buhari Reacts To Bomb Attack At The University Of Maiduguri.

Four persons including a Professor were killed in a twin bomb blast attack at the University of Maiduguri, Borno state this morning. See another tweet after the cut.

I Will Work With Ohaneze Ndigbo – Buhari

President Buhari Wednesday pledged to work with the new leadership of Ohaneze Ndigbo under Chief Nnia Nwodo to be a partner-in-progress in implementing suggestions, measures and programmes to advance the unity, development and prosperity of Nigeria.

He said this through his Senior Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu when he congratulated Nwodo on his emergence as the new President-General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, the pan-Igbo socio-cultural organisation.

President Buhari believes that Chief Nwodo is eminently qualified for the job given his long years of distinguished service to the nation, which includes, Minister of Civil Aviation in the Second Republic under President Shehu Shagari and Minister of Information and Culture during the administration of General Abdulsalami Abubakar.

He expressed his desire to work with the new leadership while calling on Ndi Igbo as well as the wider community of Nigerians to support the new leadership to fulfil their mandate in these challenging times.

Buhari Appoints New Executive Secretary For NPHCDA

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday approved the appointment of Faisal Shuaib as the Executive Secretary of National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA).

This is contained in a statement issued by his senior special assistant media, Garba Shehu.

The statement stated that Dr. Shuaib, a medical doctor and public health specialist, is currently a Senior Program Officer (Africa) for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) at Seattle, USA.

At the BMGF, Mr. Shuaib is responsible for developing and implementing strategies on polio outbreak response activities in Africa. Prior to joining the foundation, Mr. Shuaib coordinated Nigeria’s successful response to the outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) as the Incident Manager of the Ebola Emergency Operations Centre in 2014.

He was also a member of the six-member panel established to assess the response of the World Health Organization (WHO) to the global Ebola outbreak in 2014 and provided technical advice to the Federal Ministry of Health and NPHCDA in areas of immunisation and polio eradication activities between 2012 and 2015.

Mr. Shuaib had in the past also worked as a research associate at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Nigerian Government Approves N14.4Bn For Second Niger Bridge

The Federal Government has awarded the contract for additional works on the Second Niger Bridge linking Delta and Anambra States in the South-South and South-East zones respectively.

The Contractor handling the project is Messrs Julius (Nig.) Ltd., at a total cost of #14,446,010,416.16K (Fourteen billion, four hundred and forty-six million, ten thousand, four hundred and sixteen naira, sixteen kobo)

A statement by Mohammed A. Abdullahi, Assistant Director (Information) in the Ministry of Works, noted that “the existing Niger Bridge which was commissioned on January 4, 1966 is severely overstressed and its continued serviceability cannot be assured.

“The idea of a Second Niger Bridge started way back in the late 1970s but its realization has been delayed by several challenges. The Administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is resolutely committed to the completion of this important project.”

In a related development, the Federal Government has also awarded a contract for emergency repairs of Tamburawa Bridge along Kano-Kaduna Dual Carriageway in Kano State to Messrs. Borini Prono & Co. (Nig.) Ltd.

The cost of the project is #1, 898,456,175.00K (One billion, eight hundred and ninety-eight million, four hundred and fifty-six thousand, and one hundred and seventy-five naira) with a twelve-month completion period.

The statement added that “the scope of works for the Emergency Repairs involves the use of rock-filled gabion protection with reno mattresses, fitters and embankment protection to the abutments.

“This intervention is premised on the public outcry and concern earlier expressed by the Executive Governor of Kano State over the scouring around the piles and exposure of substructures of the said bridge and subsequent integrity test carried out by Engineers from the Ministry.”

Following quite a while of quiet, Buhari responds to Southern Kaduna killings, orders 'solid activities'

Following quite a while of quiet, President Muhammadu Buhari has given directions for unequivocal measures went for conveying a conclusion to the repeating demonstrations of viciousness and demolition in the Southern piece of Kaduna State. The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) had prior denounced the President's quiet "over the progressing genocide in Kaduna'.

The General Secretary of CAN, Dr. Musa Asaka, said Buhari's hush in the most recent couple of weeks "talks volume over saw official underwriting of the obnoxious and corrupt acts."

An announcement issued on Thursday, by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu said:

"On the order of President Buhari, the Inspector-General of Police was in the locale on Saturday and Sunday to evaluate the circumstance at direct. Notwithstanding the routine policemen sent in the range, a squadron of portable policemen has now been positioned there. The Nigerian armed force is additionally during the time spent setting up two brigades in Southern Kaduna while the military keeps on doing air reconnaissance crosswise over glimmer purposes of the territory.

President Buhari has similarly coordinated the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to complete a joint appraisal of the circumstance with the sister office in Kaduna, SEMA, to decide the level of reaction required for earnest guide to the casualties of the viciousness.

These measures ought to soon guarantee the arrival of regularity to the district, while the Kaduna State government proceeds with its tranquility building endeavors. The President lauded endeavors of the State government and the security offices in the means taken so far to abridge the viciousness.

President Buhari has, by and by, sent sympathies to the general population of Southern Kaduna, who have lost friends and family in the late brutality.

The president likewise took to twitter. He composed:

Buhari Salute Military Over Recovery Of Chibok Girl

President Muhammadu Buhari has hailed the recuperation of another Chibok schoolgirl, Rakiya Abubakar, in the Alagarno region of Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State.

In a press articulation by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, the President noticed that "the recuperation raises reestablished trust that the other caught young ladies will one day be brought together with their families, companions and group."

"President Buhari additionally praises the military for the persistent examination which prompted to the recuperation of Rakiya and urges them to proceed in the soul with which they cleared the Sambisa woodland of fear mongers.

"The President guarantees that the Nigerian Government will keep on doing all inside its forces to help the military in finding whatever remains of the young ladies and killing the hazard of psychological oppression in Nigeria", the announcement included.

I know Buhari’ will not perform– Fayose

- Governor Ayodele Fayose says he has always known that President Muhammadu Buhari will not perform in government

- The Ekiti state governor said the change mantra which President Buhari promised Nigerians is not working

- Fayose calls on President Buhari to save Nigerians from agony since they voted for change 

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state has said all his predictions that President Muhammadu Buhari will not perform in government have all come to pass.

Fayose told Vanguard in an interview on Thursday, December 5, that he has always known that President Buhari will not perform in government.

The Ekiti state governor said the change mantra which Buhari promised Nigerians is not working.

He said:  

“The question to ask is that; every observation, every comment, all I said before the President became President of Nigeria, they’ve all come to pass.”

“The truth lies in the fact that I know the President will not perform. I know he will be taken over by a cabal and they’ve taken him over.” 

"Nigerians are suffering. You can read between the lines. Forget about the messenger, think of his message. This change is not working.”

Fayose called on the president to save Nigerians from agony since they voted for change.

He said millionaires of yesterday have become paupers because they are losing money.

The governor said the average man can no longer eat and asked how long Nigerians need to wait for the promises which he said were empty promises.

Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ekitit state chapter has warned against the alleged renewed plot to impeach Governor Ayodele Fayose.

PDP declared that, if such is eventually carried out, it would lead to the total collapse of President Muhamadu Buhari administration.

The opposition party branded Fayose as a man of the people and the leader in the country, who commands enormous followership across the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria.

Barr. Gboyega Oguntuase, the PDP state chairman, speaking on Wednesday, January 4, said the letter written earlier that day by the governor to the Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Walter Onnoghen to inform him on the alleged moves to manipulate a section of the judiciary to effect the move was justifiable.

Oguntuase who maintained that the move would create crisis of monumental proportion that would be difficult for the Nigeria Army to curtail said: “removing Governor Fayose from power is like removing the whole Ekiti who voted for him in all the 16 local government areas of this state. Any war wage against our governor will be resisted by the people from all these zones.

President Buhari’s Government To Spend N270b On 50 Bridges

Nigeria government has reported arrangements to spend about N270 billion inside three years for the restoration of 50 extensions, taking after the rot of a hefty portion of the current ones.

Priest of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, talked on Tuesday in Lagos, while reviewing the recovery of Lagos Ring Road Bridge.

He said government would begin with in regards to N70 billion to N100 billion in year one and that the extremely basic ones were being given need.

Fashola clarified that:

"We now have a three-year arrange influencing more than 50 connects the nation over for upkeep, repairs and reclamation.

"A considerable lot of the extensions we worked in the nation in the course of the last four, five decades have not been under any type of support.

"We now have a three-year arrange influencing more than 50 connects the nation over for support, repairs and rebuilding.''

The clergyman, who deplored that a large number of the scaffolds in Lagos and the nation over had endured disregard and had not been experiencing routine upkeep, guided designers to start work to realign the Apongbon connect

He watched that a few sections and light emissions longest scaffold, Third Mainland, were undermined on account of human exercises, sand filling and biological elements which brought about disintegration.

"The work we have come to assess was granted a few years back when there meant that a few mis-arrangements here on the Lagos Outer Ring Road which is the start of what leads on to the Third Mainland Bridge itself which is just about here.

"Also, it is being brought about by disintegration, sand filling and different exercises.

"This street has moved therefore of some sub-soil removal,''  Fashola said.

He criticized aimless stopping and exchanging exercises in a few sections of Ebute Ero toward the Third Mainland Bridge.

"I need to speak to those individuals who utilize those ranges as auto stops and exchanging to begin moving intentionally in their own best advantage.

"We plan to rest our privilege of way while work is going ahead on the Outer Marina to free movement,''  he said.

God will give the answer for our issues to Buhari in 2017 - Kumuyi

As indicated by Pastor William Kumuyi, the general administrator of Deeper Life Bible Church, the answer for Nigeria's issue will be given to President Buhari by God in 2017.

The General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor William Kumuyi, on Sunday said that in 2017, God would allow President Muhammad Buhari the answer for the various difficulties confronting the nation.

The mainstream Deeper Life head, said this while talking with the press as he facilitated the speaker, Lagos state House of Assembly, Mr Mudashiru Obasa and some different individuals from the Assembly at the congregation's December Convention.

Kumuyi said: "We discussion of the hours of subsidence, trouble, pain and all that, however God is allowing us His guarantees. We are not going to extend our issues. We supplicate and trust that the Lord will reply.

"As you will see, as we get to the New Year, there is no remainder of our issues. God will offer answers for the issues of our lives, families, groups, the state and our country."

The priest additionally said that with supplication and confidence in God, the nation would escape every one of its difficulties and the current monetary subsidence.

Counseling the group of onlookers, Kumuyi likewise said that God made ''us and needs everything to be adequate for everyone.''

Speaker Obasa tended to the gathering of a huge number of admirers, encouraging Christians to show love to their neighbors, and that the state was resolved to battle unemployment among the young.

Obasa additionally asked houses of worship to appeal to God for the state and country, said that the state was energetic to give great administration and enhance the economy of the state for the advantage of all.

He communicated enchant over the glow gathering agreed his group by the initiative of the congregation.

"We should go past religious boundary and demonstrate to ourselves that we are siblings and sisters. Give us a chance to love each other. We ought to stretch out hands of partnership to our neighbors," he finished up