Gambari has turned out to be not the Abba Kyari replacement Aisha had hoped he would be. Instead, Sabi’u “Tunde” Yusuf, her nemesis’ nephew, is the new Abba Kyari. By now, most people have read the story of the scuffle that occurred between Mrs. Aisha Buhari, her children, and her security aides on one hand […]
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Aisha, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, says Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, should have resigned for going beyond his brief. In a statement on Wednesday, she accused the presidential spokesman of interfering in the affairs of the president’s family. “In saner climes, Garba Shehu would have resigned immediately after going beyond his boundaries and powers,” she […]
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Your office is not recognised by law. Funds not approved.” A former Aso Rock official told me last week that President Olusegun Obasanjo wrote this in a file in response to intense pressures from his wife, Stella, that she must ‘work’ as the First Lady. But the matter did not die there. For women, there […]
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BUSINESSDAY Nigeria has to declare state of emergency in education ‘ Olumide Debt overhang looms in Nigeria Global strategy on Child Labour elimination: The Oyo State example CAN election: Contenders urged to exhibit Christ-likeness in their ambition How Rivers strives to achieve ‘Tax with Ease’ as RIRS unfolds informal sector IGR drive NEPC says Port […]
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It would have been okay to dismiss reported happenings around the Buhari Presidency as part of opposition blackmail and negative agenda setting of partisan press but for the publicly manifested interplay of the antics of the gods and demons at the seat of power. Those who have been married for sometime would agree that real […]
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Mamman Daura is today described as the “most powerful nephew” in Nigeria by virtue of his closeness to President Muhammadu Buhari. At the centre of the recent complaints by Aisha, Buhari’s wife, is that those who did not participate in the campaign were the ones calling the shots in her husband’s government TheCable understands that Duara […]
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”At the heat of the intense pressure mounted on the BBC to stop airing the remaining part of the controversial Aisha Buhari interview a few days ago, I had the privilege of listening to the interview before it was fully aired. My good friend, the Head of the Abuja bureau of the BBC, Naziru Mika’il […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife, Aisha, spoke to the BBC last week, about some appointments made by her husband, and warned that she may not support his re-election in 2019 if the president fails to shake up his cabinet. The president fired back by saying the first lady belongs in the kitchen. Below are full text […]
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Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife has warned him that she may not back him at the next election unless he shakes up his government. In a BBC interview, Aisha Buhari said the president “does not know” most of the top officials he has appointed. She suggested the government had been hijacked, saying a “few people” […]
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