President Muhammadu Buhari is as committed to the freedom of the only Dapchi schoolgirl still in captivity as he was to the girls’ freedom when all 110 were in the captivity of Boko Haram terrorists, his office said Thursday. A statement by the Presidency, signed by Garba Shehu, said: “The Buhari administration will not relent in efforts to bring Leah Sharibu safely back home to her parents as it has done for the other girls after she was held back by the terrorists over her decision, as reported, not to convert from Christianity to Islam. “President Buhari is fully conscious…

PRESS RELEASE It is obvious that All Progressives Congress (APC) federal government has failed to protect Nigerians, if its electoral promises is anything to go by and one wonders the basis for the party to applaud President Muhammadu Buhari’s claim of bringing back home those innocent Dapchi Girls that ought not to have been abducted in the first place if not for the government’s laxity. Most importantly, that the abduction and return of the girls took place without resistance is a sign that APC led federal government has lost the war against insurgency, the basis for which it came to…

Funmi Olaitan, Ibadan National Chairman and Presidential Candidate of National Action Council (NAC), Dr. Olapade Agoro, on Thursday, called on President Muhammadu Buhari not to allow himself to be rubbished with the release of the Dapchi girls by Boko Haram insurgents. Agoro who made the call in a statement issued in Ibadan on the release of the abducted Dapchi students, described the circumstances surrounding the release of the students as play out of "Con Artists Celebration of Fraud" He said, "Obviously ‘the best language of a fool is self delusion’ this laughingly summarizing the narratives of the arranged abduction and…

The present economic templates being used by the Muhammadu Buhari government do not have the ability to address the unique needs of Nigerians at present, American business magnate, Mr Bill Gates, has said. The philanthropist and founder of Microsoft corporation however said Nigeria has the ability to approach ‘upper middle-income status’ like Brazil, China and Mexico, but added that achieving this status depends on ”the choice Nigerian leaders make”. Gates, at the special and expanded National Economic Council, held in Abuja on Thursday tasked Nigerian leaders to sincerely invest in not just infrastructural development but also human investment. The theme…