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Buhari’s Eid speech in Hausa was awful

by Alexander O. Onukwue Why did the advisers of President Buhari allow a national speech in Hausa language to become public knowledge? In the first place, there are doubts that it was President Buhari himself who had given the speech, but it may have been better if it were so. The purported Eid speech to... Read More

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June 26, 2017

YNaija Editorial: President Buhari’s message to Nigerians in Hausa is ‘unacceptable’

About two years ago at his inauguration, the most quoted lines from the speech of President Muhammadu Buhari was, “I am for everybody, and I am for nobody.” The line which earned him a thunderous applause from the crowd at the Eagle Square, Abuja and got positive reactions across the country was intended to mean... Read More

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