Aisha Buhari Lands A Fresh Appointment


Reports has it that the wife of Nigeria's President Aisha Buhari has just been appointed the grand patron of the Rochas Foundation College of Africa, a non-governmental humanitarian organisation that seeks to provide the underprivileged accross Africa with quality education .

The foundation has announced its plans to take 1 million African children off the streets by the year 2030. Aisha Buhari, the wife of Nigeria's Commander-In-Chief as the grand patron is saddled with the daunting task of reaching out to wives of other African presidents to help nominate children to benefit from the initiative.

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Buhari will eventually endup one of Nigeria’s best presidents – Presidency

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Mr Garba Shehu,the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, on Sunday stated that President Muhammadu Buhari would be one of Nigeria’s best presidents even as he described the last couple of weeks as tough on the commander-in-chief as he encountered the graviest public criticism since he assumed office on May 29, 2015. Shehu said much of the criticism which he sees as unfair on the FG had been on account of the unresolved social and economic problems facing the country. In his words, “The currency liberalisation and the deregulation of the petroleum products sale will make President Buhari one of the best presidents till date. “The removal of subsidies on the petrol products has saved the government more than N2tn annual expenditure in this respect. “President Buhari’s foreign trips have brought many things to the country. He has energised our foreign policy. Beyond the enormous goodwill reaped from “resetting” age-old but damaged relations with neighbo...
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Parents call for the swapping of Chibok girls for Boko Haram detainees

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The April 14 2014 photo Latest Photo as was screen-grabbed from  the video released on  sunday by the sect The parents of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls in coalition with the BringBackOurGirls group on Sunday requested that the Federal Government exchange detained Boko Haram members for the girls who were held hostage by the sect for over two years. This was as a follow up to the video of the girls as was released by the sect on Sunday. Boko Haram captured more than 200 of the 276 final-year girls it abducted from Government Secondary School, Chibok, in Borno State, in April 2014. Some of them escaped, but 215 girls remain missing. In May 2016, one of them, Amina Ali, was rescued. Abubakar Shekau faction of the Boko Haram sect In an new video (11 minutes long) avowed that some of the girls were killed by air strikes launched by the Nigerian Air Force on their hideouts. There in the video is a masked armed man standing in front of several girls, wh...
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In The Steps Of Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh Concedes Defeat After Loosing To Opposition In The Presidential Poll

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''As Goes Nigeria, So Goes Africa'' -  This quote is handy in the discuss and dissection of the issues of the moment in Our continent. Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s timely acceptance of defeat in the 2015 presidential election clearly saved Nigeria from bloodbath and political chaos as some retrogressive elements had prepared to unleash mayhem on the country had the presidential election result gone the other way round.
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Jean Ping Declares Himself President Of Garbon

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Gabon opposition leader Jean Ping on Friday declared himself the rightful president while demanding for a vote recount,48 hours after incumbent Ali Bongo was announced the winner of a weekend and election was returened re-elected throwing the central african nation into crisis. “I am the president, ” Ping told a press conference at his home in Libreville late Friday, calling for a recount from every polling station. Since the anouncement of the elections results of the  Saturday election huge crowds of irate supporters, some of whom torched the parliament, have taken to the streets. However, Bongo’s government launched a fierce crackdown, with security forces arresting around a thousand people. Two people died early Friday following overnight clashes, bringing to five the number killed in the violence that erupted after Bongo was declared victor of the disputed election on Saturday. Bongo was declared victorious by a razor-thin margin of just under 6,000 votes, but his mai...
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