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Buhari Regards Soyinka’s Advice, Agrees To Hold National Economic Conference

Buhari Regards Soyinka’s Advice, Agrees To Hold National Economic Conference Barely a week after Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, urged Nigeria’s supreme leader to summon an emergency economic conference to brainstorm solutions to the problem facing the country, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the convocation of a national economic conference. A presidency official in Abuja on Thursday, while speaking to pressmen, said NEC members had in their deliberations called for a major conference, where the current economic situation of the country could be thoroughly discussed by all the states and the Federal Government. Soyinka, who made the disclosure known during a courtesy visit to the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in Abuja last Thursday, had said; “The President should call an emergency economic conference with experts to be invited – consumers, producers, labour unions, university experts, professors, etc. I think we really need an ...

Buhari Fired Nigeria’s Media Chiefs For Failure To Stop Radio Biafra – IPOB

Buhari Fired Nigeria’s Media Chiefs For Failure To Stop Radio Biafra – IPOB The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has on Tuesday, February 16, hinted reasons to President Muhammadu Buhari sacking of all the federal government owned Nigerian media executives. According to the directorate of IPOB, the media chiefs were all dismissed following their inability to comprehend the technological superiority of Radio Biafra. This was contained in a press statement issued to pressmen via e-mail on Tuesday by IPOB’s Coordinator of Coordinators, Dr. Clifford Iroanya. Mr Iroanya insisted that after voting billions of dollars to these government media outfits to knock off Biafra Radio from the world wide air wave, Buhari was disappointed by the ineptitude and dismal performance of the various units mandated to do the knock off, Vanguard  reports. The statement entitled: “Nigeria’s media chiefs sacked because of inability to stop Radio Biafra”, reads: In several occasions, the...

Why I Conceded Victory To Buhari — Jonathan

The immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan has in an event in Geneva, shed light on the crucial moments he faced on March 28, 2015 ahead of his decision to concede victory to President Muhammadu Buhari after that year’s presidential election. READ ALSO:   Jonathan’s Statement On The Ongoing $2.1billion Arms Deal Scandal Fmr President Goodluck Jonathan addresses UN Swiss press in Switzerland READ ALSO :  Buhari Is Fighting Boko Haram With The Weapons I Bought – Jonathan This disclosure was made known, last week, by the former president during a dinner in his honour by Cercle Diplomatique, Geneva, Switzerland. He said: “I was actually in that valley on March 28, 2015. I never knew that the human brain had the capacity for such enhanced rapid thinking. “One hundred and one things were coursing through my mind every second. My country was at the verge of collapse. The tension in the land was abysmally high and palpable, in the months and days leading to the election...