Wallowing in excuses On August 10, President Muhammadu Buhari found fresh reasons for the never-ending Boko Haram insurgency in North-eastern States. While speaking during a meeting...
That Monguno charge The pressure on President Muhammadu Buhari to rework the country’s security architecture over the never-ending security headache appeared to have forced an unclear...
PMB’s body language On July 31, President Muhammadu Buhari betrayed his emotions. Short of pronouncing some public officials guilty of crime, he couched his disappointment in...
Shehu’s tough task On July 19, President Muhammadu Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, lashed out at those accusing the President of...
Order, please! President Muhammadu Buhari cut a pitiable sight on July 16, as he issued a stern warning to his appointees over their alleged disrespect for...
Refurbished budget 2020 On July 10, President Muhammadu Buhari took further action to pull the country’s economy from the brinks. He made the move at the...
Waking up to reality On July 1, President Muhammadu Buhari woke up to the sad reality of some government officials abusing public trust. This came on...
Peace of the graveyard On June 25, President Muhammadu Buhari broke the ice in the intense conflict rocking the All Progressives Congress (APC). The President first...
Osinbajo’s confessions Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, last Friday, admitted that the present governance structure is expensive and unsustainable. He disclosed this while fielding questions by the...
The power of a woman! The Villa is never short on surprises. So it was last Thursday night, when Aisha Buhari, wife of the president, insisted...
Blowing hot air The seeming free reign of bandits in the north of Nigeria got President Muhammadu Buhari blowing hot air last week. The most recent...
The more things change… Yes, it’s been five years since Buhari began another tinkering with Nigeria. The first time, he did so all starched up in...
Six isn’t half a dozen! In what took many by surprise, and ignited some sort of celebration nationwide, President Muhammadu Buhari, last Friday, signed into law...
Now that Gambari is on the saddle No recent appointment into President Muhammadu Buhari’s kitchen cabinet had drawn so much suspense. First, were the unconfirmed reports...
To whom much is given… President Muhammadu Buhari is seeking all the help he can get to contain COVID-19 which is sweeping across the country. Funds...
Flogging Governor Ganduje President Muhammadu Buhari is certainly a man under pressure but the demands of the office are not such that he can abandon except...
Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) appointed President Muhammadu Buhari to lead the region’s fight against the spread of coronavirus last week....
In the morning of last week Saturday, Nigerians woke up to the news of the demise of Abba Kyari, Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari....
President Muhammadu Buhari, in the past week, approved the employment of 774,000 Nigerians into the Special Public Works programme, supposedly, as part of a stimulus package to ameliorate the effect...
President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive to the Ministry of Finance and National Planning to ensure prompt payment of workers’ salaries in order to cushion the hardship that...
The Nigerian media space was awash, last week, with news that President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, had tested positive for coronavirus after being...
Following the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic in Nigeria, and with the gradual increase of confirmed cases of people who have tested positive to the virus,...
Social media platforms, last week, were littered with a video clip of one Jamilu Mohammed Gondari who breached the security agents of President Muhammadu Buhari, during...
The sack of 5, 781 N-Power beneficiaries was one dominant issue around the Presidency last week. The dismissal of the beneficiaries of the N-Power programme was...
One dominant issue around the presidency last week was President Muhammadu Buhari’s order for an immediate withdrawal and replacement of security officials found to be sabotaging...
The quiet rumblings in President Muhammadu Buhari’s kitchen cabinet fully exploded last week. The National Security Adviser, Major-General Babagana Monguno, in a leaked memo, published by...
President Muhammadu Buhari was, last week, booed by some angry residents of Maiduguri – Borno State capital – during his condolence visit to the government and...
“I was taken aback by what is happening in the North West and other parts of the country. During our campaigns, we knew about the Boko...
From Nigeria’s seat of power, one of the talking points last week was President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement on the country’s ability to end the insurgency war...
Past week was, indeed, one of celebration in Aso Rock, the Nigerian seat of power. It was a week President Muhammadu Buhari could not hide his...
There was no escaping the pictures. Hanan, Buhari’s daughter, had caused a stir with images of her descending the presidential jet and waving at some mass...
Many mouths were left agape in surprise when President Muhammadu Buhari was recently quoted to have said that citizens must resist the urge to travel abroad...
Nigeria got a bit of bashing here and there past week. Perhaps, not the sort that President Muhammadu Buhari would have loved to witness on his...
The dust raised by a section of the Nigerian media to address President Muhammadu Buhari as a ‘Major General,’ a ‘Dictator’ might not settle soon. But...
Perhaps, no other story attracted as much attention last week as the drama orchestrated by the Department of State Security (DSS), an agency under the watchful...
President Muhammadu Buhari last week sparked public concerns when he returned to the Nigerian Senate on Thursday to seek approval to borrow additional $29.96 billion loans....
President Muhammadu Buhari shot straight from the hips last week. In doing so, he expressed concern over the failure of constituency projects, inserted into the country’s...
President Muhammadu Buhari last Friday returned to Nigeria from London, United Kingdom, where he went for a ‘private visit.’ While he was away, Aso Rock bubbled...
The perceived soured relationship between President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo dominated national discourse last week. It has been so for a while. The...
After months of suspense and tension, Aso Rock and its number one occupant, President Muhammadu Buhari, heaved a sigh of relief last week. The Nigerian Supreme...
It was another fascinating week keeping an eye on Aso Rock, and to see President Muhammadu Buhari return from Russia-African summit with a basket of goodies,...
Expectedly, Aso rock, home and office to the Buharis, was a beehive of activities last week. For a first time visitor, the ambience at the seat...
Keeping an eye on the presidency could be an interesting undertaking. Like other times, last week was loaded with events that did well to keep the...
Watch on Aso Rock revealed pleasant surprises last week, with different reactions elicited. Among these events was President Muhammadu Buhari’s three-day state visit to South Africa,...
Like always, events around President Muhammadu Buhari and other members of the Aso Rock team, last week, got Nigerians talking. The social media and other media...
Events around Aso Rock, the Nigerian seat of power, last week showed that things may no longer be at ease with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, once...
Trust Aso Rock with intriguing events. Like preceding weeks, last week did not pass without fascinating stories from Nigeria’s seat of power. Among the stories that...
As xenophobic attacks in South Africa heightened, Nigerians were, last week, left with tales of ‘double wahala’. No thanks to perceived inertia at Nigeria’s seat of power....
Shouts of a ‘fake Buhari’ rent the air again last week. That was in Tokyo, Japan. It started off as a whisper but gained momentum when...
The supposition that President Muhammadu Buhari’s government has been run by a cabal got heightened last week with the president’s order to his new ministers. Many...
