President Buhari attended the graduation ceremony of the Nigeria Defense College Course 24 at the National Defense College Abuja today August 4th. More photos after the cut. (more…)
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, says he will not be resigning as speaker despite allegations of budget padding leveled against him by Abdulmumin Jibrin. Speaking to state house correspondents after his 10 minutes closed door meeting with President Buhari, Dogara said he will not be resigning as budget padding isn't an offence ”I am a lawyer and have been a legislator for a while. I never knew of an offence called budget padding” he said
Mrs Aisha Buhari held a meeting at the United States Institute for Peace in Washington DC. Highlights of the round table bothered on security , nutrition , health , Education , Environment , community development and youth, collaborations and foreign aid. A comprehensive presentation on the Future Assured program of the wife of the president was also discussed. Speakers from representative states also gave brief remarks on relevant issues peculiar to their environments. (more…)
Nigeria’s men’s football team, had a disastrous start when they were left stranded in Atlanta, fortunately it got resolved. They get to Olympics and while on the field for their match against Japan, the wrong National anthem was played. The Nigerian U-23 team did a great job beating Japan 5 goals to 4 in Manaus on Thursday just hours after landing in Brazil for the Rio 2016 Olympics. Oghenekaro Etebo became the first Nigerian to score a hat-trick at the Olympics. There were 8 goals scored in 77 minutes. (more…)
After the wrong Nigerian National anthem was played, Nigerians took to twitter to express their disappointment at the organizers of the 2016 Rio Olympics. Read some of the comments after the cut... (more…)
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