Nigerian netizens are reacting to a viral video posted on Twitter by Special Assistant to President Buhari on Digital and New Media, Tolu Ogunlesi, which shows President Buhari wrongly answering a question about Nigerian youths at the ongoing 74th United Nations General Assembly. The President was at the time attending the side event which focused on Climate Change. Also on the discussion panel with President Buhari were the Fiji Prime Minister, H.E. Frank Bainimarama, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, Netherland Prime Minister, H.E Mark Rutte, Bank of England Governor, Mr Mark Joseph Carney and Chief Executive Officer of Wills Towers Waston, Mr. John Haley. During the discussions, the moderator asked President Buhari. Nigeria has a very young population. Perhaps you might highlight a pathway for what resilent future looks like?’. President Buhari went ahead to read his speech which focused on Climate change which had no correlation with the question he was asked. W...

It’s the age of social media memes and roasting of all forms and no one is left out, not even those in political offices. Most social media users take delight in creating funny posts with pictures of their political leaders and apparently, it has got the attention of Nigeria’s vice-president, Yemi Osinbajo. In a video shared on social media, the Vice-President reacted to the funny memes used to ‘roast him’ on social media. Osinbajo specifically made light of the meme about him speaking with President Buhari, saying ”It appears that every photograph of me speaking with the president has been characterised as though I am saying something mischievous.” Video below; Video Player 00:00 00:60

Lai Mohammed and President Buhari Nigeria’s minister of information, Lai Mohammed had come under severe attack on Friday, after a video wherein he was pleading with Nigerians to forgive President Muhammadu Buhari over his West African Examination Council(WAEC) emerged online. However, in a statement on Saturday, the minister said the 2015 video was doctored making it look like he was begging Nigerians to forgive the president. The statement reads thus, ”A pattern is emerging of the antics of the desperate opposition to latch on to the use of fake news and disinformation as a strategy to trigger chaos in the country. “On Friday (6 Sept 2019), they doctored and circulated the video of my appearance on Channels Television on January 2015 (when I was the spokesman of the APC) to make it look like I was begging Nigerians to forgive President Buhari for not having a school certificate. “Worse still, they posted the video afresh, giving the impression it happened la...

The  Federal Government  has told the  El-Zakzaky-led Shiite members  to  cease  from violent street  protests  and await the decision of the court in Kaduna where their leader is currently being tried. Shiite members have been on a series of protests demanding the release of their leader, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, who has been in custody since fighting between his supporters and the army broke out in December 2015. The Shi’ia leader is facing trial over allegations of culpable homicide, unlawful assembly, and disruption of the public peace, among others. In a statement on Friday, Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on media and publicity said that the FG no longer has hands in the matter and should be cleared of any alleged violations of court orders. “The Presidency appeals to El-Zakzaky-led Shiite members to desist from needless violent street protests and await the decision of the court in Kaduna where their leader i...

Hon. Debo Ogundoyin, 32, has won the position of the ninth Oyo state of Assembly after a unanimous voice vote of the 32-member assembly this past Monday. Davido jumped in on the congratulatory spree and congratulated the new speaker of the house via his personal Twitter handle... love when Dreams come true!!!!! 3 years ago you were co managing @drenodrizzy with me ! Today you became THE SPEAKER OF THE OYO STATE HOUSE IF ASSEMBLY!!! I am so happy and Proud if you!!! Haha OGUN D !! #3 !! @debo_ogund https://twitter.com/iam_Davido/status/1138069355160358913 The Oyo ninth Assembly is dominated by the ruling PDP with 26 out of the 32 members.

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has approved the appointment of six new Permanent Secretaries in Lagos State Public Service with effect from 1st June 2019. A release by the Lagos State Head of Service, Hakeem Muri-Okunola listed the appointed Permanent Secretaries and their previous positions as follows: Dr. Eniayewun Ademuyiwa Benjamin: MD Lagos Island Maternity, Erinle Olumide Olufolami; Principal Apapa Senior High School, Education District IV and Oludara Okelola, Principal Babs Fafunwa Millenium Senior Grammar School, Education District VI. Others are: Mr. Akewusola Wasiu Adedamola: General Manager, New Town Development Authority, Mrs. Falugba Yewande Abiodun: Director Admin & Human Resource, Ministry of Youth and Social Development and Mr. Osi- Efa Mustapha Abiodun; Director Admin & Human Resource, Ministry of Home Affairs. The statement said that the portfolios of the appointees will be announced later. In a similar development, the Governor has con...

The national chairman of the All Progressive Congress political party, Adams Oshiomhole was chased away by a security personnel for breaching protocol at the Presidential inauguration in Abuja today. The former Governor of Edo State was filmed standing next to the acting chief judge of Nigeria and other security personnel as they waited for the arrival of President Muhammadu Buhari and his vice Yemi Osinbajo. However, a military official went to speak with Oshiomole and soon after escorted him from where he was standing as he was not meant to be there. Watch the video below; Video Player 00:00 00:00

Outgoing Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha, has told the incoming government and others not to trouble him after leaving office, promising not to trouble anyone as well. The governor said this in his final address to the state government house workers a day before yesterday Tuesday, May 28th. ”As I walk out of this government house, let nobody fight me and I will not fight anybody. Governor is a shield that covers every personality that is in office. When you remove the shield of the governor off my face, you will see the real Rochas. The real Rochas is still as big, if not bigger than the Rochas who was governor”. See video below ; Video Player 00:00 00:59

Few hours after he was officially handed over to, incoming Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has made his first appointment. He has appointed Tayo Ayinde as the new Chief of Staff. Ayinde was Sanwo-Olu’s Campaign Director. Sources close to Ayinde confirmed the appointment of the former Campaign Director of Sanwo-Olu. Many friends of Ayinde has bombarded the social media with congratulatory messages. Independent Online reports that the out-going Governor of Lagos State, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, on Tuesday officially handed over to the Governor-elect, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, ahead of his inauguration on Wednesday. Sanwo-Olu’s emergence followed the decision of the ruling All Progressives Congress party in the state not to sponsor Ambode as its governorship candidate in the general elections. Shortly after the handing over at the Government House, Alausa, the governor-elect told newsmen that it “was a very private formal hand over’’. The governor-elect was accompanie...

Head of states, President Buhari has stated that the people who have referred to him as  Baba Go Slow during his first term in office, will be shocked at the pace he will work in his second term which commences tomorrow Wednesday, May 29th. The President made this known during a special interview session with the Nigerian Television Authority NTA which aired last night. According to President Buhari, he will be more ruthless and he will ensure the judiciary and police work effectively. When asked if he will be more ruthless in his second term, he said “ Those who call me ‘baba go slow’ will see whether I am slow or fast .” Expatiating, President Buhari said, “It means I will persuade the police and the judiciary to be hard and where I uncover that they are not hard, I will find out who is responsible for the slowness in terms of command from the DPO upwards. The IG cannot do it alone; he needs to depend on commissioners who in turn depend on DPOs.”

The Presidency has said there is no guarantee that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari will eradicate Boko Haram insurgency. The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, explained that such promise can’t be made because Boko Haram has become a global challenge. He stated that the federal government was doing all it can to tackle banditry and kidnapping. According to Shehu who spoke on Channels TV Sunrise Daily: “I can’t promise you that Boko Haram will or will not be eradicated but it is an ongoing challenge globally even in the more advanced, more weaponised nations, it is still a challenge. “I am happy that there is a realisation that there is shifting ground. When the president came in in 2015, the big issue was Boko Haram. Boko Haram has faded away, it is on the way out but new challenges have arisen. You have mentioned banditry and kidnappings and these ones are being tackled. “Recent successes have been recorded, look at what fo...

Femi Fani-Kayode, former Minister of Aviation, has reacted to remark by the Minister of Transportation thanking President Muhammadu Buhari for not converting him to Islam. Amaechi had stated this during a valedictory session Buhari had with his Ministers at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Reacting, Fani-Kayode described Amaechi as “an accursed slave”, hence Buhari need not convert him to Islam. In a tweet, the former Minister wrote: “Thank you, Mr. President, for not converting me to Islam – Rotimi Ameachi. “He does not need to convert you because you are already his useful idiot and accursed slave, because he already has you by the balls and because you have spent the last four years licking his rectum.”

President Muhammadu Buhari has given directives that ministers should continue working until Tuesday, May 28th. The president who presided over the valedictory federal executive council held at the state house, Abuja on Wednesday, asked the ministers to keep working, as they prepare to hand over to the permanent secretaries of their respective ministries. According to Buhari, the ministers should submit their handover letters to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation on that same date. The ministers also recounted their experience while working with Buhari in the last three and a half years. The Valedictory session held at the council chambers of the presidential villa, Abuja.

Eight days to the end of Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode’s administration in Lagos State, the confusion over the whereabouts of the 2019 Appropriation Bill passed by the Lagos State House of Assembly seems to have no end in sight. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that there were a lot of impasses between the executive and the House before the budget was formally presented in February by the governor on the floor of the House. The House, however, passed the budget on April 29, more than 80 days after it was laid before the lawmakers. Meanwhile, three weeks after the appropriation bill was passed by the House, the whereabouts of the bill seems to be uncertain which has become a subject of discuss among concerned groups and ordinary citizens of the state. Several efforts have been made to know the whereabouts of the bill which proved abortive as those who should know have kept shifting responses from Clerk of the House, Mr Azeez Sanni to the Chief Press Secretary to t...

PORT HARCOURT —Director-General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has advised Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State not to take another oath of office on May 29, 2019, if he (Wike) cannot handle the security situation in the state. Dakuku Peterside Peterside noted that the call was based on rising killings and relocation of businesses from the state, urging the governor to buckle up to end the menace head on. Peterside, who handed down the challenge, yesterday, in a statement, in reaction to the deteriorating security situation in the state, argued that as a state governor, Wike’s primary duty was to secure the lives and property of the people, without which citing of infrastructure and any other corollary of development would amount to zero. He noted that latest figures emerging from the state are both frightening and capable of permanently shutting out the state from the list of potential business destinations f...

Bola Tinubu, a National Leader of the regnant All Progressive Congress (APC) will before long be given back seat arrangement treatment in the nearest future, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said. The resistance expressed this in answer to remarks credited to the previous Lagos State representative wherein he said the PDP were owning saucy and distractive expressions as a result of their misfortune at the current year's general decision. "Try not to accuse them. They are crippled by the awful sentiments of the enormous loss of the decision," Tinubu was cited by the administration in an announcement to have said in Saudi Arabia on Monday. "You should assist them with managing the injury," the APC chieftain included. Reacting, the resistance who blamed the previous representative for pulling affronts at the PDP asked him not to curry political pertinence by assaulting them. The gathering likewise said it was a barbarity for the APC chi...

Olusegun Obasanjo Nigeria’s Federal Government has asked former President Olusegun Obasanjo to tender a public apology over his comments imputing ethno-religious motive to Boko Haram and ISWAP. Government also asked him to withdraw the statement it described as deeply offensive and patently divisive. It said such indiscreet comments are far below the status of an elder statesman. In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said it was particularly tragic that a man who fought to keep Nigeria one is the same one seeking to exploit the country’s fault lines to divide it in the twilight of his life. He said Boko Haram and ISWAP are terrorist organizations pure and simple, adding that they care little about ethnicity or religion when perpetrating their senseless killings and destruction. ”Since the Boko Haram crisis, which has been simmering under the watch of Obasanjo, boiled over in 2009, the terrorist organiz...

Minister for culture and Information, Lai Mohammed, has assured the World leaders invited for President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term inauguration that Nigeria is safe.   He made this known while fielding questions from journalists in Abuja today, 20th May. Nigerians while reacting to the comment have disagreed with him.   Reactions: If Nigeria is safe all the governors, ministers and including the president should move around like other Nigerians without security. — Kendo (@Kendo81326098) May 20, 2019 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Really! I thought u said @atiku is planning a coup. — Marko April®🇳🇬 (@debbieforsure) May 20, 2019 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Nigeria is Aso Rock? This man need to see a psychiatric — Augustine Okonji (@kongees) May 20, 2019 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js In Fela’s voice… “run o” — Don N’Abasi (@dedonnse) May 20, 2019

Abiola Ajimobi The Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, says his administration has spent about N46 billion to fund the state-owned tertiary institutions in the last seven years. He stated this on Monday while inaugurating the ultramodern Oba Akinbiyi Model School at Mokola, Ibadan, the state capital. According to him, the School Governing Board (SGB), a novel participatory model of school management system introduced by his administration in 2016, which accommodates the stakeholders in the day-to-day running of public secondary schools, had so far attracted funding to the tune of N15bn. Ajimobi’s comments come shortly after swearing-in 11 newly-appointed permanent secretaries. He thereafter inaugurated the newly-constructed Ijokodo-Apete Road, now named Ambassador Olu Saanu Road, as well as Challenge-Efunsetan Road named after former Governor Lam Adeshina. Ajimobi explained that his administration’s scientific approach to his mandate informed the organization of two e...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has withdrawn 25 Certificates-of-Return issued to some candidates that won some elections during the 2019 General Elections. This was disclosed by the Chairman of Information and Voter Education Committee (IVEC), Festus Okoye, at a `Forum on Media Coverage of 2019 General Elections’ held in Enugu today Monday, May 20th. According to Okoye, the certificates were withdrawn following different court orders. He disclosed that 20 of the 25 certificates-of-return were withdrawn from All Progressive Congress (APC) members to other APC members; while two from People Democratic Party (PDP) members were withdrawn and issued to other PDP members. He said that the other three were withdrawn from APC and PDP; and given to other political parties. Speaking at the forum, Okoye said “The commission has withdrawn 25 certificates-of-return from the first owners to their new owners following court orders to do that''.