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P resident Muhammadu Buhari says Nigeria is safe for business, urging foreign investors to come to the country and invest. Fielding questions at the business forum of the Commonwealth Head of Government Meeting (CHOGM 2018) in Westminster, the president said Shell Group is preparing to invest $15 billion in Nigeria. “On security, certainly, both in the northeast and in the southsouth, there has been an improvement in the security of the country,” he said. “This morning, before I came here, I saw Shell Group. They came to see me, and they are preparing to invest $15 billion in Nigeria. “Really, we are not doing too bad, and I think you should get in touch with your colleagues back at home, and tell them to think very clearly and positively on what this administration is doing,” the president added, referring to the Nigerian youths he said want to sit and do nothing.” In his initial speech at the forum, the president said the Commonwealth should avoid trade war...

T he house of representatives has dropped the bill seeking to amend the electoral act. The amendment sought to change the sequence of the election in a way that the presidential election comes last, after the state assemblies/national assembly and governorship elections. The lower legislative chamber dropped the bill during plenary on Wednesday after Edward Pwajok, a Plateau lawmaker, who sponsored the bill, said he was withdrawing it. The lawmaker after consultations, he was advised to withdraw the bill. Source: TheCable

P resident Muhammadu Buhari says many Nigerian youths just want to sit down and do nothing, banking on the notion that Nigerian is an oil-rich nation. Speaking at the Commonwealth Business Forum in Westminster on Wednesday, the president said a lot of Nigerian youths have not been to school and they want everything free. “About the economy, we have a very young population, our population is estimated conservatively to be 180 million. This is a very conservative one,” Buhari said. “More than 60 percent of the population is below 30, a lot of them haven’t been to school and they are claiming that Nigeria is an oil producing country, therefore, they should sit and do nothing, and get housing, healthcare, education free.” The President said he has done well on the three cardinal points of his campaign, including economy and security. “Recently, my minister for information was constrained to answer a question on people accusing this administration of doing nothing...

J ust yesterday, my appointment as the Director, Strategic Communications of President Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organisation was made public. In that capacity, I would be the Official Spokesperson of the President’s campaigns for the 2019 Presidential Election. Let me put it on record that I was indeed consulted before the announcement. Upon the offer, I wholeheartedly and proudly accepted the challenge to do this for the good of my country and for posterity. For in President Buhari I have found an approximation of the lofty values I cherish and have fought for all my life. I know millions of Nigerians have never seen me in the mould of partisan politics. This is because for the past two and half decades, I have been under intense public scrutiny while engaging successive governments (military and civilian) in the most critical way possible. The public has also watched me grow steadily all the way from that young, restless lawyer to the exalted position of a Senior Advo...

S enator Omo-Agege who led hoodlums to cart away the mace has according to reports, been arrested by the Police. Omo-Agege, suspended last week for 90 days by the Senate was arrested by the FCT Police at 1:50 p.m while he crept into the chambers to join in the plenary. The Senate had gotten another mace as they continued plenary after a turbulent few hours of dramatic proceedings. In a statement released by the Spokesman of the Senate, Sabi Abdullahi, the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris and DG, SSS, Lawan Daura were ordered to recover the mace in the next 24 hours.

"T oday, some hoodlums led by suspended Senator @OvieOmoAgege walked into the Senate plenary and seized the symbol of authority of the Upper Legislative Chamber, the mace." #MaxGists Hoodlums Storm Nigeria Senate Floor, Seize Mace. #BringBackOurMace #nigeriansenate #NationalAssembly @Max1023FM #BreakingNews pic.twitter.com/7GhufzaG1S — MAX 102.3 FM (@Max1023FM) April 18, 2018

S ome hoodlums have reportedly invaded the Senate during a seating on Wednesday and did away with the mace. The hoodlums, unknown, got into the floor of the house and caused a stir in the seating chaired by Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekwweremadu who is deputising for Senate President, Bukola Saraki who is on a trip to the U.S on a spring meeting with the World Bank and IMF. The mace is the Parliament’s symbol of authority.