Tag: Muhammadu Buhari
PRESIDENT BUHARI LAUDS AMERICA’S SUPPORT ON FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM
Sept. 25, 2021 Support by the United States of America has made a great difference in Nigeria’s efforts to stamp out terrorism within its borders, President Muhammadu Buhari has said. Meeting Friday in New York with Her Excellency Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Permanent Representative of America to the United Nations, the President indicated that America’s support ...UNGA: PRESIDENT BUHARI RAISES ALARM ON EROSION OF DEMOCRACY IN WEST AFRICA, URGES WORLD LEADERS TO REJECT UNCONSTITUTIONAL TAKEOVERS
Sept. 24, 2021 President Muhammadu Buhari told world leaders Friday in New York that unconstitutional takeover of power, sometimes in reaction to unilateral changes of constitutions by some leaders, must not be tolerated by the international community. According to the president’s spokesman, Femi Adesina, Buhari said this in his speech at the 76th Session of ...UNGA FSS: AMIDST SOARING FOOD PRICES PRESIDENT BUHARI REITERATES COMMITMENT TO NATIONAL FOOD SECURITY
Sept. 24, 2021 President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in New York reaffirmed the commitment of the Federal Government to attaining national food security. According to a statement by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity, the President told the Food Systems Summit (FSS) as part of the High Level meetings of the ...We have a lot to show for loans taken, we’re borrowing to build world class infrastructure – FG tells critics
Sept. 23, 2021 The minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has said those criticising the Buhari Administration for borrowing are insincere. According to the Minister who was speaking at at the town hall meeting on vandalisation of power and telecoms infrastructure in Borno on Thursday, noted that the Federal Government was not borrowing ...Nigeria To Establish 10 National Parks To Tackle Biodiversity Loss – Buhari
September 23, 2021 President Muhammadu Buhari has disclosed that 10 new national parks will be established as part of moves to tackle biodiversity loss. The Nigerian leader said this on Wednesday in a video message to the hybrid High-Level event tagged “Transformative Actions for Nature and People” on the margins of the 76th Session of ...2023: The north will not be cowed into submission, the thought of power rotation should be buried – NEF
Sept. 20, 2021 The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has rejected the push to have Nigeria’s next president come from the southern region, arguing that the region has the majority to produce a leader through the ballot. NEF, in its most recent submission on the nation’s polity said, it will not allow the 2023 presidency to ...NPA reforms and Koko’s new culture of Excellence
September 20, 2021 President Muhammadu Buhari makes no pretence about his desire to deepen and diversify the nation’s economy. The Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, the nation’s ports manager, is a key parastatal in this regard. It’s therefore of little wonder that the president’s attention is regularly on the activities of the NPA. The president desires ...President Buhari directs incorporation of NNPC, appoints board
Sept. 19, 2021 President Muhammadu Buhari, in his capacity as Minister of Petroleum Resources, has directed the incorporation of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited. According to a statement by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity on Sunday, this is in consonance with Section 53(1) of the Petroleum Industry Act ...Dangote in talks with traders for oil refinery loan
Sept. 16, 2021 Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote is in talks with some of the world’s biggest oil traders to help finance his mega refinery project outside of Nigeria’s commercial centre Lagos, sources with knowledge of the matter said, although his company denied the discussions. The 650,000 barrel-per-day refinery, once complete, will be the continent’s ...Agriculture: Over 3.8 mn hectares of farmland cultivated as FG makes N300bn available to 3.1mn smallholder farmers
Sept. 15, 2021 President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja said over 3.8 million hectares of farmland has been cultivated by smallholder farmers. Speaking virtually at the opening ceremony of the 14th Annual Banking and Finance Conference of Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, the President noted that the Central Bank of Nigeria through the ...
