OPENING REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, DURING THE MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE ABUJA AT THE TRANSCORP HILTON, HOTEL ABUJA 28TH JUNE 2019 PROTOCOL I warmly welcome you all to Abuja and to this important event organised by the Munich Security Conference on the eve of the 55th Ordinary Session of the Authority of ...

A political pressure group, Citizens for Equity, Fairness and Justice has appealed to the National Chairman, the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, to zone governorship position to West and Central Senatorial Districts of Kogi. The President of the group, Mr Mohammed Abubakar, made the appeal on Friday while speaking with newsmen in Abuja. Abubakar said that for the past ...

The Abundant Nigeria Renewal Party (ANRP), on Friday, countered the claim by Chairman of the Independent National Election Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, that INEC was the ‘most improved public service institution in Nigeria’. Mr Sesugh Akume, National Spokesman, ANRP, told newsmen in Lagos that INEC’s performance in the 2019 elections did not show that there were improvements on what ...

Mr Olakunle Oluomo, Speaker, Ogun House of Assembly says plans are ongoing to start translating bills passed into laws by the assembly to local languages for easy understanding by the people of the state. Oluomo made this known in Abeokuta on Friday while speaking at a strategic legislative luncheon organised in his honour by the State Branch of the Committee ...

Ex-Transportation Minister Rotimi Amaechi has raised the alarm over plots to launch smear campaign of calumny and lies against him. Amaechi, in a statement on Thursday, described the plot as “deceitful and misleading”. According to a statement through his media officr: “We know that attempts are being made to peddle all sorts of fictitious, misleading and concocted stories, distorted and ...

A former lawmaker representing Kogi West in the National Assembly, Senator Smart Adeyemi, has vowed not to support All Progressive Congress (APC) if the incumbent Governor, Yahaya Bello is denied the party’s ticket to contest the governorship election The ex-Senator made this known at the All Progressive Congress stakeholders’ forum held in Lokoja. According to him, the political destiny of ...

Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi has given the assurance that traditional rulers are ready to work with President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to restore peace and unity in the country. Adeyemi who said this at a gathering of Yoruba leaders on Thursday, in Ibadan, called for collective efforts toward restoring peaceful and unity in the country. He said that Nigerians ...

Mr Sanusi Inuwa, United Progressive Party (UPP), candidate in the Plateau North Senatorial election, has told the National Assembly Tribunal that he neither filled nor submit his nomination forms submitted to INEC by his party. The said forms, numbered CFOO1 and CFOO2C2, are political parties candidate nomination forms which are given to candidates by INEC, through their parties, to fill ...

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) says Nigeria currently ranks 181 out of 193 countries polled in terms women’s participation in politics. Dr Joy Onyesoh, Country Director, WILPF Nigeria, said this on Thursday in Abuja. Onnyesoh was speaking during the National Conference on Women’s Participation in Nigeria: Post 2019 General Elections, in a presentation on “Incidences of Violence ...

The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal on Thursday rejected a request seeking the withdrawal of Hope Democratic Party (HDP) from challenging President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election. Giving ruling, Justice Mohammed Garba, held that HDP and its presidential candidate in the Feb.23 general election, Chief Ambrose Owuru remained consenting plaintiffs in the eyes of the law. Mr Tapre Poland, an acclaimed National Chairman ...