Muhammadu Buhari GCFR (born 17 December 1942) is the President of Nigeria, in office since 2015. He is a retired major general in the Nigerian Army and previously served as the nation’s head of state from 31 December 1983 to 27 August 1985, after taking power in a military coup d’état.
The term Buharism is ascribed to the Buhari military government
He unsuccessfully ran for the office of president in the 2003, 2007 and 2011 general elections. In December 2014, he emerged as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the March 2015 general elections. Buhari won the election, defeating the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan. This marked the first time in the history of Nigeria that an incumbent president lost to an opposition candidate in a general election. He was sworn in on 29 May 2015.
Muhammadu Buhari has stated that he takes responsibility for anything over which he presided during his military rule, and that he cannot change the past. He has described himself as a “converted democrat
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that President Buhari did not address the nation on the May 29 Inauguration day because he must have ”assessed his administration and rightly adjudged it a failure.” The
President Buhari loses his nephew Ibrahim Dauda President Buhari nephew, Ibrahim Dauda is dead. A statement released by the president’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu on May 30, said Dauda died
Lai Mohammed, who addressed a press conference in Abuja to mark the beginning of the second year of the second term of Buhari’s Presidency, pointed out that the administration had justified the mandate it got
The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday requested the National Assembly to consider and approve his request to borrow $5.513 billion from external sources. Buhari’s letter of request was read
The Conference of Speakers of State Legislatures in Nigeria has described the approval of financial autonomy granted its members by President Muhammadu Buhari as the best Sallah gift from the latter. The chairman of the
The Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Professor Godswill Obioma as the new National Examinations Council (NECO) Registrar and Chief Executive Officer. A statement by the Head of Information, Azeez Sani, said
After undergoing necessary scrutiny,the 2018 Amended Executive Order 008 on Voluntary Offshore Assets Regularization Scheme (VOARS) was Thursday signed by President Muhammadu Buhari. Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the sacking of the Managing Director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Usman Gur Mohammed. This was made known in a statement from the office of the Minister of
The House of Representatives on Tuesday underscored the need for relevant authorities in charge of education in Nigeria to urgently develop a National Policy and Framework for online education for schools at various levels. The
Following President Muhammadu Buhari‘s decision to call off his scheduled nationwide broadcast on Monday, former Senator, Shehu Sani, has disclosed why it was called off. According to Senator Shehu Sani, Buhari canceled yesterday’s broadcast because
Barring any last minute change, President Buhari is expected to address the nation in a broadcast today, Monday, May 18, as the first phase of the gradual easing of the lockdown comes to an end.
The Presidency has explained why the federal government is not giving funds to states to fight the Coronavirus pandemic. The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina who spoke on
President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, has called on the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, to decongest Nigerian prisons amid the Coronavirus pandemic, in order to reduce the risk of person to person
The Chief of Staff to the president, Abba Kyari has died. He died on Friday April 17, more than two weeks after he tested positive to Coronavirus. Announcing Kyari’s death on Twitter, Presidency spokesman Garba
The federal government, on Tuesday, said its cash transfer to citizens in the cities would only be received by those with N5,000 or less in their bank accounts. The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management
