Former President Muhammadu Buhari has opened up on the revocation of a plot of land belonging to the Muhammadu Buhari Trust Foundation in Abuja. In a statement by his media aide, Garba Shehu, on Thursday, Mr Buhari explained that he was not the owner of the plot allocated to the Foundation named after him. PREMIUM … Read more
About 17 months after the substantive Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Abubakar Raheed, a professor, resigned from office, President Bola Tinubu on Friday announced a replacement. In a statement issued by the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, a copy of which PREMIUM TIMES obtained, the new NUC helmsman … Read more
A former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Kingsley Obiorah, told the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Abuja Thursday that the bank’s board never recommended Naira redesign to former President Muhammadu Buhari. Mr Obiorah testified virtually as the fifth prosecution witness at the resumed hearing in the ongoing trial of … Read more
Borno South Senator Ali Ndume has recounted how former President Muhammadu Buhari and President Bola Tinubu ordered him to join the All Progressives Congress (APC) some years ago. Mr Ndume, a member of the APC, disclosed this in a viral video posted by Channels Television on Friday. He was removed as Senate Chief Whip on Wednesday following … Read more
The House of Representatives has resolved to launch an investigation into the National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) under the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari. The lower chamber resolved to investigate the funds disbursed to the licensed electricity distribution companies by the CBN as loans under the NMMP. … Read more
Despite the nation’s economic challenges, federal lawmakers have raised their own allocation in the 2024 budget to an unprecedented N344.48 billion. The lawmakers increased by over 50 per cent the N197 billion proposed by President Bola Tinubu for them in the budget proposal submitted to them in November. Both the Senate and the House of … Read more
President Bola Tinubu has congratulated former President Muhammadu Buhari on his 81st birthday. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity on Saturday, Ajuri Ngelale, President Tinubu described the former president as “an icon of truth, justice, and patriotism.” He appreciated Mr Buhari for his friendship and vote of confidence shown through … Read more
