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Presidency Reacts to Calls for Pantami’s Sack

By Sahel Standard April 23, 2021 55 0

STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENCY ON RECENT CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE MINISTER OF COMMUNICATIONS AND DIGITAL ECONOMY Today, there is an unfortunate fashion in public discourse that makes leaders in politics, religion, and civil society liable in the present for every statement they have ever made in the past – no matter how long ago, and even […]Continue Reading

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Buhari Approved N5b For NIMC

By Sahel Standard Magazine March 10, 2021 206 0

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday approved N5billion for the National Identity Managment Commission (NIMC) to enable it deliver the national digital economy project with appropriate infrastructures and attractive conditions of service in agencies saddled with the responsibility to do so. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami said there was Continue Reading

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Buhari seeks Senate’s confirmation of Ahmad as DG NASRDA

By Sahel Standard Magazine March 2, 2021 204 0

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday urged the Senate to approve the appointment of Dr Halilu Shaba Ahmad, as the new Director-General of the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA). Senate President Ahmad Lawan read Buhari’s letter of request on the floor at plenary. In the letter, Buhari enjoined the lawmakers to give his request […]Continue Reading

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COVID-19: Tomori Warns Against A Third Wave, Urges Nigerians To Take Responsibility

By Sahel Standard Magazine March 1, 2021 146 0

A Professor of Virology, Oyewale Tomori, is worried about the attitude of Nigerians to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. While Nigeria is about two months into the second wave of the pandemic, the virologist is concerned that slipping into a third wave will be dangerous for the people. “If a third wave comes, I fear it […]Continue Reading

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Buhari Says We Will Deal With Banditry, Insurgency

By Sahel Standard Magazine February 26, 2021 190 0

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said there will be no softening of the ongoing measures aimed at tackling insurgents, bandits, kidnappers, and other criminals constituting a threat to innocent citizens across the country. The President gave the warning through his Chief of Staff, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, during a security meeting of the Northern State Governor’s Continue Reading

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Age has nothing to do with Demanding for Better Governance in my Country, Wizkid replies Buhari’s Aide

By Sahel Standard Magazine October 7, 2020 329 0

Nigerian superstar singer, Ayo Balogun, a.k.a Wizkid, on Tuesday responded to a statement by the Special Assistant to President Muhammdu Buhari on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, where she described him as a dumb kid for addressing President Muhammadu Buhari the way he did in a tweet. Onochie had in a tweet described Wizkid as being […]Continue Reading

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Buhari condoles with ex-Gov. Fayose over Sister’s death

By Sahel Standard Magazine September 23, 2020 205 0

President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with former governor of Ekiti, Ayo Fayose, over the sad loss of his immediate elder sister, Mrs Moji Ladeji. The president’s condolence message is conveyed in a statement by Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, in Abuja on Wednesday. Buhari prayed God’s comfort […]Continue Reading

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#TETFUND Gets N7.5bn for 2020 Research Grants

By Sahel Standard Magazine June 24, 2020 392 0

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved an increase of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund, National Research Fund, NRF,  to N7.5 billion for the year 2020 from an initial N3 billion. Executive Secretary of TETFund, Prof. Suleiman Bogoro, stated this in Abuja at the 2020 TETFund Board of Trustees, BoT, Retreat Professor Bogoro said the approval […]Continue Reading

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Re – FIRS ignores Buhari’s Directive, sacks Nine Directors

By sahelstandard01 June 1, 2020 743 0

ADVERTORIAL: Re – FIRS ignores Buhari’s Directive, sacks Nine Directors The attention of the FIRS Management has been drawn to malicious publications in some no less reputable media outfits such as Premium Times and PUNCH Newspaper dated 18th May, 2020, entitled “FIRS Chair ignores Buhari’s directive, retires nine directors”, which blatantly twisted facts to create Continue Reading