Kawu Sumaila Former Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on National Assembly Matters, Alhaji Abdurrahman Sulaiman Kawu Sumaila, has insisted that no right-thinking Nigerians will endanger their lives to support the candidature of any Igbo politician vying for the presidency in 2023. Sumaila stated this on Thursday in a statement he issued to newsmen in Kano. On Tuesday, INEC chairman told newsmen that his organization has suffered 45 attacks on it’s facilities in the southeast.…
President Buhari and AGF Abubakr Malami President Muhammadu Buhari has been asked to suspend the Nigerian constitution and declare a state of emergency across the nation in an attempt to find a solution to widespread chaos and insecurity plaguing the nation, if a report on People’s Gazette is to be believed. The online publication claims Attorney-General Abubakar Malami in a lengthy legal advice to the Nigerian president, urged him to move swiftly to suspend the…
President Muhammadu Buhari Twitter has deleted a tweet in which Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari appear to threaten separatists among the people of Igbo-dominated South-East. In a statement issued by the office of President Muhammadu Buhari, who previously led Nigeria as a military ruler in the early 1980s, said “a rude shock” awaits “those bent on destroying the country through promoting insurrection, and burning down critical national assets”. “Those of us in the fields for 30…
American news publication, ForeignPolicy.com has assessed Nigeria’s situation under President Muhammadu Buhari and declared the country “a failed state”. In an opinion piece co-authored by John Cambell, a former American ambassador to Nigeria the influential magazine writes:“Nigeria has long teetered on the precipice of failure. But now, unable to keep its citizens safe… Nigeria has become a fully failed state. “This designation…is not a knee-jerk, casual labelling using emotive and pejorative words. Instead, it is…
Another week, another set of devastating headlines for Nigeria. It would be upsetting enough to read some of these stories in the same year. But just look at what we’ve had to read about in the last seven days. The kidnapping of “at least” two hundred students in Tegina – taking the number of children held for ransom in our northern states this year alone to over 700. International human rights pressure group Amnesty International…