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Buhari
July 13, 2017

Fayose knows everything about Buhari’s health status. We should listen to him

Whose report shall we believe? Governor Ayodele Fayose‘s gloom-ridden assertions or Acting President Yemi Osinbajo‘s good news. President Muhammadu Buhari has been out of the country for health-based reasons for 66 days and counting and Nigerians have been largely kept in the dark on the state of his health. Up until Osinbajo‘s recent feedback, the... Read More
Thinking Through
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July 10, 2017

The Thread: “This country is really a jungle” “Nigeria is the new NatGEO wild” | Twitter NG reacts to Aisha Buhari’s peculiar words

Twitter NG is having fun with Aisha Buhari and Shehu Sani’s Facebook posts. We think it’s code for Buhari is coming back soon and those trying to steal his seat will be put in their place. Don’t take our word for it, though. It’s just a calculated guess. Apart from Kayode Ogundamisi who has taken... Read More
Opinion
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July 10, 2017

114 days after, we have the 411 on how Buhari scammed us | Many thanks to the EFCC

If you spent some of your Monday on Twitter like we did, then you must have caught some part or the other of the @officialEFCC handlers’ #Format trend. #TheEagle “hit a nerve” and thought to help by enlightening people on the various ways that Nigerian fraudsters prep their preys for the taking. One thing they... Read More
Thinking Through
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July 5, 2017

[The Presidential Blog] Can we all calm down now? The head of government is back

Yesterday, Senators flexed some three-weeks-of-recess worth of muscle when they tried to make Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki Acting President. The Senator from Abia who initiated the hustle claimed that “the acting president [Professor Yemi Osinbajo] is the person who is at the head of government now, but we have a serious problem in Nigeria today.... Read More
The Presidential Blog
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July 5, 2017

If yesterday’s attempt to ‘steal’ his government didn’t wake Buhari from the ‘dead’, what else will?

You may have heard that a certain President – not Buhari nor Osinbajo – almost entered the Villa yesterday. Despite the attempt by a number of lawmakers to move Zuma to allow for a Bukola Saraki Acting Presidency, the Senate President held back and shut it down. “I simply want to bring to the attention of... Read More
The Presidential Blog
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July 3, 2017

The Thread: “Buharists have no moral basis to criticise Nnamdi Kanu”

Nnamdi Kanu, the current Biafra Messiah has flouted his bail conditions in one, two, four ways but IPOB blindly insists that he has kept within the ambit of the law. @Afrispheric wants critics to hush and learn this : anyone who applauded Buhari’s disdain for the law (e.g the continuous incceration of Ibrahim El Zak... Read More
Opinion
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June 26, 2017

Ayo Sogunro: Making power uncomfortable in Nigeria

by Ayo Sogunro The continuing mystery of President Buhari’s illness and the handling of the saga by his aides is more evidence that Nigeria’s political system works almost independently of the individual nominally in charge. If we had a responsive and functional political system in Nigeria, the independence of the system from political actors would... Read More
Opinion
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June 26, 2017

The Big 5: These are the stories you should be monitoring today

These are the top five stories you should be monitoring today. 1. BUHARI’S VOICE MESSAGE TO NIGERIANS IS A SCAM – FANI KAYODE Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has stated that the voice message purportedly from President Muhammadu Buhari is fake. 2. EID-EL-FITR: GOV GANDUJE GRANTS FREEDOM TO 500 INMATES The Kano State Government on Sunday... Read More
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June 25, 2017

“Happy Eid-el-Fitr” – Buhari’s new address to Nigerians, Schwarzenegger and Macron mock Donald Trump | Our top 10 quotes from last week

“I, again, appeal to all Nigerians to avoid reckless statements or actions against our fellow countrymen. We should all resolve to live in peace and unity in our great country, which is the envy of many less endowed nations. “Happy Eid-el-Fitr.” We had to begin this week’s round up of quotes with our absentee President,... Read More
Thinking Through
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June 24, 2017

[The Presidential Blog] One photo from Osinbajo’s consultations says (almost) everything about Nigeria right now

It is so interesting, all these unexpected extras we are learning about Nigeria from the recent ethnic agitations and the consequent consultations. Who’d have thought that a situation as ugly as the issuance of “quit notices” from one part of the nation to another and the fear that the hate birthed would lead us to real truths about our... Read More
The Presidential Blog
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June 19, 2017

Peregrino Brimah: Petition for the FG to restore Nigeria’s true federalism

by Peregrino Brimah This petition is initiated in the interest of the progress and prosperity of Nigeria. Restoring Nigeria’s True Federalism is a clamour by the North and South, East and West and is frankly long overdue. We hope the government will listen to the cry of its people. While campaigning for the presidency in 2011, President Muhammadu... Read More
Opinion
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June 18, 2017

Anti-corruption: Buhari’s panel ridicules presidency, judiciary, says anti-graft war following wrong direction

Two members of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) in Abuja on Saturday derided government’s handling of the anti-corruption war. Chairman of the panel, Professor Itse Sagay (SAN), and member, Professor Femi Odekunle, while speaking at a programme organised by the National Association of Seadogs (the Pyrates Confraternity), attributed setbacks suffered by the administration... Read More
The News Blog
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Looters
June 16, 2017

The Thread: “Oga Lai can dethrone the devil” “Lai Mohammed is worse than Donald Trump” | Twitter NG slams Lai Mohammed

On the hot seat once more is our very own Minister of Information and culture, our spin king. There’s nary anything he can’t take and twist to some outlandish version of itself and serve it back with the emphatic claim that it’s nothing new. In otherwords, Lai Mohammed can lie for Africa. At least this... Read More
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Olusegun Adeniyi YNaija
June 15, 2017

Olusegun Adeniyi: Buhari and the 2019 debate

Thanks to Speaker Yakubu Dogara, I was on the floor of the House of Representatives last Friday as guest speaker at a special session to mark the mid-term of the 18th National Assembly. I was invited to speak on “Image Perception of the Legislature: Causes and Possible Solutions” . While, as I explained, individual lawmakers... Read More
Opinion
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June 12, 2017

These photos from the budget-signing make it look like misogny lives in Aso Rock

After what seems like an order from Mr President-in-diaspora, Muhammadu  Buhari, Acting President Yemi Osinbajo finally got around to signing the 2017 Appropriation Bill, 11 days after the deadline he first set for signing it. But not to dampen the mood. Hoorah!!! We have a budget! Who’d have guessed – 6 months into the New Year,... Read More
The Presidential Blog
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June 12, 2017

[The Presidential Blog] What Femi Adesina learnt while working for MKO Abiola

Femi Adesina, President Muhammadu Buhari’s special adviser on media and publicity has lived long years in the media industry. He has written for Vanguard Newspapers, The Sun Newspaper, and Concord Newspapers, the news outlet of Concord Press, one of Chief MKO Abiola’s many business ventures in Nigeria. Femi Adesina has also served as the president... Read More
The Presidential Blog
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June 12, 2017

The Big 5: These are the stories you should be monitoring today

These are the top five stories you should be monitoring today. 1. “I collect ransom in dollars because I’m different” – Kidnap baron, Evans says Suspected kidnapper, Chukwudi Dumeme Onuamadike, also known as Evans, who was arrested by police in Lagos said on Sunday, that he collects ransom in dollars because he is different.  2. Dino... Read More
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June 12, 2017

The YNaija Tracklist | ‘Buhari not returning soon’ | Clean up the White House or I fire you – Donald Trump threatens Priebus | More stories

From the papers, a tracklist. ‘Buhari not returning soon’ – Presidency sources – YNaija Dino Melaye turns pastor, insists he cannot be recalled – YNaija “We’re surprised that Northern youth calling for secession haven’t been arrested – Ohanaeze – YNaija Boko Haram kills 8 in Borno – YNaija “I ccollect ransom in dollars because am... Read More
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