Politics

JUST IN: Osinbajo finally signs 2017 budget

The Acting President signed the budget with President Muhammadu Buhari nowhere near the seat of power.

June 12: “Why I stopped MKO Abiola from becoming President” – Ibrahim Babangida

Abiola “encouraged a campaign of divide and rule among our ethnic groups”.

Photos: Wole Soyinka meets rusticated UNILAG student, calls him “my prison mate”

“I know you so well. I read you on magazines. You are my prison mate.”

Osinbajo signs 2017 budget in Buhari’s absence…on Thursday

Acting President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo will sign the 2017 Budget into law on Thursday by 9:00 A.M at the Presidential Villa.

“Nigerians can own houses with as low as N30,000” – Acting President Osinbajo

Osinbajo says FG is implementing a N100 billion Family Home Fund which Nigerians can afford by paying N30,000 per month.

2019: Nigerian “fine boy” Donald Duke to run for President again

“I have contested the presidency before; I will still give it a shot when the opportunity presents itself. I believe I still have the energy in me.”

Lai Mohammed: “Buhari has created a new set of millionaires”

The information minister praised his boss on the great achievement.

WATCH: Odumegwu Ojukwu’s last warning to Igbos on Biafra

“We should have learned from the first war.”

Sokoto: 200 students get scholarship to study Medicine abroad

The programme, according to the government, was part of ongoing efforts to re-position the education sector in the state.

Nigeria: Schools, shops, offices shut as Igbos mark Biafra Day

The situation also affected activities at the courts with some sitting and others not working.

Biafra: “I don’t want war any more” – civil war veteran

The rebel province in southeast Nigeria declared independence on May 30, 1967, triggering a bitter civil war that would leave more than one million dead, most of them from famine and disease.

READ: Buhari missing as Osinbajo delivers Democracy Day Speech

It’s two years since Muhammadu Buhari became President.

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Democracy Day: 81 promises Buhari, APC made to Nigeria

How many of these promises have been fulfilled?

5 reasons Buhari must resign today

Buhari has spent the better part of this year on a sick bed. Here’s why this must change.

PIB: That’s how it took the Senate 17 years to pass Petroleum Industry Bill

The Bill which has gone through 5 sessions of the National Assembly beginning from the 4th Assembly which was inaugurated in 1999 under President Olusegun Obasanjo.

Democracy Day: President Buhari absent as FG declares Monday public holiday

Barring any last minute development, President Muhammadu is set to miss out on the May 29 celebrations.

“Igbos didn’t support Buhari, shouldn’t cry about marginalisation” – Minister of Labour

Ngige described politics as a form of “business”, in which if you dont “invest”, you wouldn’t get returns.

“Change must begin with Buhari” – Atiku

“The reality is that our nation does not work well whether we focus on security, education, economic production, employment generation and people’s welfare.”