by Alexander O. Onukwue The audio message released by the Presidency as the Sallah felicitations of President Buhari has been the subject of debate and controversy on social media. Amidst murmurings that Buhari, who has been in London for seven straight weeks without any verbal communication, is suffering from speech impairment, the Presidency decided it... Read More

Eid speech, President Muhammadu Buhari, Speech impairment, Story of the day

June 26, 2017

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Buhari’s Eid speech is an unnecessary distraction to Osinbajo

by Alexander O. Onukwue President Buhari has been in the news for the past 48 hours, not for returning to Nigeria from a vacation that has now lasted 50 days, but for a speech apparently given by him in Hausa language to commemorate Eid-al-Fitr. The contentious speech has generated a lot of buzz in media... Read More

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Eid speech, President Muhammadu Buhari, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Story of the day

June 26, 2017

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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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