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President Muhammadu Buhari has written the Senate to confirm Justice Salisu Abdullahi as substantive Chief Judge of the High Court of Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s spokesman, who confirmed this in a…

New things are happening at the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), and suddenly, there’s a throwback to the 1996-1999 Lagos State, when the then Colonel Mohammed Buba Marwa was military administrator.Marwa took a broom, and…

It’s often intriguing to hear eminent and well-appointed Nigerians talk about disintegration, destabilization and outright war, as if it’s a picnic. War? Not a tea party, and not something you should wish even upon your enemy.Nigeria…

Almost everything in our country is accompanied by some sort of furore. You do, you are damned. You don’t do, you are damned. No wonder President Muhammadu Buhari often says in private conversations, when some tumults occur on certain…

President Muhammadu Buhari has felicitated veteran journalist Olusoji Akinrinade, on the occasion of his 70th birthday anniversary.The president extended his congratulations to the Fellow of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) in a…

Former Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has faulted the comparison presidential aide, Femi Adesina drew between President Muhammadu Buhari and former President Olusegun Obasanjo.In the latest installment of his "From The…

Let’s go back in time to May 2004, when the lands of Yelwa-Shendam, in Plateau State, had turned crimson. Primitive fury and hatred were unleashed, leading to internecine bloodbath. Hundreds and hundreds of people were killed along…

Whenever you see them file in, it is always in this order: Chief of Defence Staff first, followed by Chief of Army Staff, then Chief of Naval Staff, and finally, Chief of Air Staff. It is an institution that scrupulously respects hierarchy,…

The trial of a self-styled herbalist, Alfa Jamiu Isiaka, who allegedly impersonated the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina and a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum…

Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina says Nigeria is going to "very, very challenges times" in every sphere of national life.He said that being a spokesman of the current administration, he…

Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, our own Hajia Amina Mohammed, led a team to visit President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday.Many things agitated the minds of the UN team, which said it was visiting to highlight issues dear to…

There’s a board in my office at State House, Abuja, which I recommend for everyone to have in whichever traffic lane of life they operate: office, home, church, mosque, anywhere, everywhere. It would remind that we are but pilgrims, passing…

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina says it is wrong to regard looters as "hungry" people.He stated this on Sunrise Daily, a popular Channels Television programme on Thursday.The presidential aide…

For well over one week, the polity has been suffused with what President Muhammadu Buhari describes as “genuine concerns and agitations by Nigerians about the excessive use of force and in some cases extra-judicial killings and wrongful…

“A good teacher is like a candle-it consumes itself to light the way for others,” said Turkish statesman, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.And that is what teachers in Nigeria had been for ages. They burn themselves out to light the way for all…

President Muhammadu Buhari came sparkling as Nigeria marked her Diamond Jubilee on Thursday, October 1.In the National Broadcast to commemorate the day, the President fired on all cylinders. He was forthright, matter-of-fact, not…

There is a story that President Muhammadu Buhari likes to tell. He has done so many times in public and private meetings. It goes thus:“After we got inaugurated into office in 2015, I asked the Governor of Central Bank for the state of…

In the past one week, those who think they own Nigeria, and their cohorts, have been making magisterial pronouncements on the state of the nation. What they couldn’t get through the ballot box in 2019, they are attempting to achieve through…

“You can’t manage what you can’t measure,” posits management thinker, Peter Drucker. And that was one of the reasons that got the Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to embark on a 2-day Performance Review Retreat for its Ministers,…

The strife is o’er, the battle done. But it was by no means easy. It took so much: tact, diplomacy, guts, deft footworks, prayers, yes, prayers, and so many other things.But today, we can noise it all around. Dr Akinwumi Adesina…