MR. PRESIDENT’S REMARKS AT THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS (APC), TUESDAY 31ST OCTOBER 2017, AT THE NATIONAL SECRETARIAT, ABUJA Protocols May I warmly welcome everybody to this important meeting of our party’s executive body. Let me on a personal note thank you all for your prayers and good wishes, which the Almighty
AMNESTY International has condemned the decision of a military court in Cameroon to sentence an opposition leader to 25 years in prison. Aboubakar Siddiki was arrested in 2014, accused of plotting to destabilise President Paul Biya’s government. He is “the latest victim of the Cameroonian authorities’ strangling of opposition voices”, the UK-based human rights group
More than 200 people are believed to have died in underground tunnels after a collapse at North Korea’s Punggye-ri nuclear facility. The test site was reportedly badly shaken by the aftermath of the country’s sixth nuclear test, a 100-kiloton hydrogen bomb roughly seven times more powerful than the atomic bomb the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar is conspicuously absent at the ongoing meeting of the national caucus of the All Progressives Congress. The meeting, which began at 8:30pm, is being held at the new Banquet Hall of the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja. It is being presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari. Senate President
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has welcomed the decision by President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the suspended Secretary to Government of the Federation, Mr. Babachir Lawal, and the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, Mr. Ayodele Oke. The organization also called on Buhari to “urgently handover Lawal and Oke to the Economic and
A group of President Muhammadu Buhari’s supporters and admirers will, on Wednesday, hold a rally to show solidarity to the President. The group will also use the solidarity march to demand the removal of Mr. Abba Kyari, the controversial Chief of Staff to the President. The march, slated to hold between 6 am and 6
Former House Speaker John Boehner has shed some light on former President Barack Obama’s smoking habit and his relationship with his wife, Michelle. Boehner’s encounters with Obama came up as part of a major interview with Politico detailing Boehner’s 25 years with the Republican Party in Washington. Boehner summarized the differences between himself and Obama
Roger Federer withdrew from the Paris Masters which leaves Rafael Nadal set to end the year as the world No. 1. Federer claimed a 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-3 victory over Juan Martin del Potro at the Swiss Indoors final in Basel on Sunday and afterwards withdrew from the tournament in Paris as he looks to
Mr, Boss Gida Mustapha is a lawyer, management consultant, politician, business man and boardroom guru of considerable repute. His appointment as the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, has been well received, thanks to his vast public sector experience, legal background, extensive travels and contacts in both government and business. The confidence in
President Muhammadu Buhari has studied the report of the panel headed by the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, which investigated allegations against the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Babachir David Lawal, and the Director General, National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ambassador Ayo Oke. The President accepted the recommendation of the panel