Special Assistant on Media and Publicity

The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has expressed its gratitude to President Muhammadu Buhari for the appointing Aliyu Abdullahi as special assistant on Media and Publicity to the wife of the President.

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of the following aides to the First Lady, Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Aliyu Magartakada Foundation is to establish the first private University in Sokoto State.

The President of the Senate, Dr Ahmad Lawan has described insinuations that he is a rubber stamp to the Executive as “sentimental and laughable”.

Senate President Ahmad Lawan has succumbed to pressure by dropping Dr. Festus Adedayo, who he appointed his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity on Tuesday.

AS the 9th Assembly leadership is taking shape, Senator representing Sokoto North and Chairman, Northern Senators Forum (NSF), Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, on Monday said he is not in the race for leadership position in the senate.

The Bwari Area Council of the FCT has appointed a 13-member Ad-hoc Committee to handle the transition process in the council.

The Chairman, Northern Senators Forum, Senator Aliyu Wammako, has dissociated himself from a write-up that condemned the visit of INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, to the Sultan of Sokoto.

The Chairman of the Northern Senators Forum and Coordinator, North West, Presidential Campaign Council, Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, has said governments led by the All Progressives Congress (APC), at all levels, will continue to uphold fairness, justice, accountability and transparency.

Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko has donated N4,250,000 to the families of the 17 persons killed by bandits in Kalhu, Rakkoni and Dalijan communities, Rabah Local Government of Sokoto State.

As Nigeria intensifies the battle against corruption, the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) takes the battle to faraway Ghana to block slush fund.

The United Kingdom has said there is a high threat of kidnap throughout Nigeria.

Adamawa State Governor Mohammed Umar Jibrilla Bindow has joined millions of football-loving Nigerians to felicitate with and commend the Super Eagles of Nigeria for their qualification for the 2019 Africa Cup Of Nations in Cameroon.

Dr. Nandul Durfa, Chairman, Board of Directors, College of Health Technology, Zawan, has resigned his appointment, citing alleged electoral fraud and impunity in the Oct. 10 Plateau local government elections.

The President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has condemned the unwarranted search in the Abuja home of nonagenarian, Chief Edwin Clark, by the police.

President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday, in his Daura country home, said the combined efforts of defectors and their backers in the opposition would not distract his administration from the good work it was doing for the benefit and development of Nigeria.

Governor Mohammed Jibrilla of Adamawa State has again described reports of his plans to defect from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as malicious and baseless.

National Executive Council, NEC, of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, yesterday, passed a vote of confidence on its President-General, Chief Nnia Nwodo.