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Good Governance Ambassadors of Nigeria (GOGAN) has kicked off the mobilization of Support for President Muhammadu Buhari with commissioning of office in London, United Kingdom.

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday hailed the announcement by President Muhammadu Buhari declaring June 12 as the New Democracy Day in honour of the late presumed winner of the June 12 1993 Presidential Election, Chief Moshood Kasimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola.

The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD-West Africa) today, 27 May 2018, releases the report of its Buharimeter Opinion Poll. The opinion poll was commissioned to assess the Nigerians' rating of the Buhari' administration after three years in office.   Overall, the 2018 Buharimeter poll revealed that  40 percent of  Nigerians approve of the President’s performance while  44 percent disapprove with the remaining 16 percent neither approve nor disapprove of his performance .  This implies that the President is rated  below average by Nigerians . The President’s approval rating of 40 percent marks  a decline of 17 percent from 57 percent  rating recorded in the 2017 Buharimeter National Survey.

PUNCH SECURITY MEN, LAWMAKERS CONSPIRED TO STEAL MACE —POLICE The Divisional Police Officer in the National Assembly, CSP Sulu-Gambari Abdul, yesterday blamed the April 18 invasion of the Senate and removal of the Mace by hoodlums on internal conspiracy. Abdul stated this during an investigative hearing into the incident by joint ad hoc committee investigating the incident. He said what happened at the National Assembly was an act of internal conspiracy among some security agencies and some lawmakers. “There should be cooperation between security agencies and the lawmakers but in this case, the attack came from the roof as the senators are not helping security matters. On April 16, there was an earlier hint that a group planned to invade the National Assembly and disrupt activities, which called for a build-up of security with two units of mobile police mobilised to the complex. “However, on April 18, at about 11 a.m., my attention was drawn to a group protesting a...

  PAPER REVIEW PUNCH 20 SENATE SUB-COMMITTEES DELAYING 2018 BUDGET – SARAKI The President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, at the plenary on Thursday, insisted on today’s (Friday) deadline issued to standing committees to represent their reports on the 2018 budgets proposed by the Federal Government’s Ministries, Departments and Agencies. He said the deadline would not be extended, noting that the Senate would not be held to ransom by the 20 sub-committees that had yet to present their reports to the Committee on Appropriations. “My meeting with the Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations as of Wednesday showed that a number of committees have not

NEWS REVIEW FOR APRIL 12, 2018 NEWS PAPERS THISDAY FG APPROVES N47BN FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF ABA-PORT HARCOURT, LAGOS-OTA ROADS, OTHERS The federal government yesterday approved contracts for three road projects at the total rate of N47 billion including the redesign and reconstruction of Aba-Port Harcourt road. Speaking at the end of seven-hour Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting in the State House presided over by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, said the contract for Aba-Port Harcourt road portion of the Enugu – Port Harcourt road would cost N6.3 billion. He also said FEC approved N22 billion for the reconstruction of 81-kilometre Lagos-Ota-Abeokuta Expressway and another N19.392 billion for the repair of 44.625-kilometre Baban-Lamba-Sharam road in Plateau State. That road was first awarded in 2000 and it has since been left uncompleted because there were no budgetary provisions for it. The thi...

Abuja Popular MC and Radio Presenter, Chuks D General who claims he  eats and dines with the General shares another shocking photo. He took to his Instagram to share the photo below and wrote; The Other day at the traditional wedding of the Vice President's Daughter.. Nigerians on Instagram quickly reacted to the photo calling it a photoshopped picture. Meanwhile, the main photo was taken some days ago at the council of state meeting held in Abuja.

School girls who  were taken away by the Bokoharam on February 19, 2018 have returned home Report reaching TNN is that Five of the 110 girls has died in Boko Haram's custody. It will be recalled that Girls of Government school in Dapchi were whisked Away from their school over a month. According to Sahara Reporters, the terrorists arrived Dapchi 9 vehicles with the Giels in them the  same way they took them away.

President Muhammadu Buhari Has yielded to public outcry for not physically visiting crises troubled areas where terrorists and gunmen have been running rampage and has scheduled visit to Taraba, Yobe, Benue, Rivers and Zamfara state in the next couple of days. President Muhammadu Buhari was in Kano last weekend,  hours after terrorists attacked a military base in Borno State, killing aid workers military personals which sent the  Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) scampering for safety.

JONATHAN SPEAKS OUT...  This is a throwback news we thought to share! - Former President, Goodluck Jonathan has replied his critics who accused him of handing over a nation at the verge of collapse to his successor, President Muhammadu Buhari. - Jonathan recounted the achievements of his government to include, handing over a country that produced the richest man in Africa. - Jonathan said, “I took over a Nigeria that was the second largest economy in Africa with a GDP of $270.5 billion in 2009,  - I handed over a Nigeria that had grown to become the largest economy in Africa and the 24th largest economy in the World with a GDP of $574 billion.

One of the biggest news websites in Nigeria went offline late October and has remained unavailable since. Here I refer to  naij.com , a website that has repeatedly ranked among the top ten most visited websites in Nigeria for years. I hate to be the harbinger of bad news but I must inform you that many internet service providers in  Nigeria have knocked Naij and dozens of other websites off the Nigerian online space for weeks now. According to available evidence, the blockade of domain names of Naij and others was at the behest of the federal government. President Muhammadu Buhari, born-again democrat and lover of free speech, scored his biggest coup against the media and the country is quiet. Shutting down  naij.com  in

Picture from 2016 budget President Muhammadu Buhari presented the breakdown of the 2018 Appropriation Bill, while addressing a joint session of the National Assembly on Tuesday 7th November 2017 by 2pm Nigeria time. President Buhari told the joint section that the proposal is based on an oil benchmark of $45 per barrel, an oil production rate of 2.3 million barrels per day, an exchange rate of 3.5 percent, inflation rate of 12.4 percent and a real GDP growth of 3.5 percent. The President stressed that out of the N8.612tn, N3.494tn has been proposed for recurrent expenditure, and N2.428tn for capital expenditure – excluding the capital component of statutory transfers.