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Inciting Comments Are Part Of Insecurity By Femi Adesina

8Apr

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Security

Inciting Comments Are Part Of Insecurity By Femi Adesina

Let’s start with a caveat: free comments are part of democracy, and so this is not an attempt to muzzle anyone. Nobody should come and shout, oh, they don’t want us to say our minds again. They want to padlock our mouths. Not at all. President Muhammadu Buhari is not even the type that would gag anyone, and the polity is today suffused with all kinds of comments, the responsible, and the not so responsible. The inspiring, and the bilious. The encouraging, and the poisonous. The reasonable, and the not so reasonable. Nobody would deny that Nigeria has very severe security challenges, though the intensity often varies from time to time. There are seasons when our courageous security agencies have the upper hand, clobber the criminals black and blue, and things calm down. At other...

Femi Adesina Replies Nnamdi Kanu On Buhari Being ‘Jubril Of Sudan’

16Oct

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Nigeria

Femi Adesina Replies Nnamdi Kanu On Buhari Being ‘Jubril Of Sudan’

The Presidency has rubbished claims by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), that President Muhammadu Buhari is Jubril of Sudan. Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity said it is “idiocy” to claim that the president is dead and was replaced with Jubril from Sudan. Adesina disclosed this in his latest article titled, ‘The Essential Buhari: VP Osinbajo got it!.’ He recalls how Buhari, upon return from his medical trip abroad in 2017, recognised him. The article reads partly: “I remember that day in August 2017, when the President returned to the country finally from his medical vacation. From January of that year, he had been in and out a couple of times, but spending weeks and months outside, attending to his health. And finally, on August 19,...

More PDP Governors to Defect – Presidency

28Jul

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Education, Nigeria

More PDP Governors to Defect – Presidency

The Presidency took swipe on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for saying that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has turned the Presidential Villa into its headquarters. At their meeting in Bauchi on Monday, PDP governors accused the APC of “parading” coerced PDP members who defected into the ruling party. But, Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity Femi Adesina chided the governors for belly-aching over the misfortune of their party. Speaking from the United Kingdom (UK) in a television interview, Adesina claimed some of them (PDP governors) come to the Villa at night unannounced. According to him, some PDP governors have been talking with the APC leadership on plans to defect, saying that many of them will dump their party next year when Presi...

Ngige’s Sermon on the Mount, by Femi Adesina

26Jun

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

News, Nigeria

Ngige’s Sermon on the Mount, by Femi Adesina

Did you watch the interview granted about 10 days ago by Labour and Employment Minister, Dr Chris Nwabueze Ngige, to Channels Television Newsnight program anchored by Ladi Akeredolu Ale? If you didn’t, then you missed something. But not to worry, you can still get to watch it online. I have decided to call it Sermon on the Mountain, according to Dr. Ngige. It was bold, frank, forthright, and something to be highly commended. The medical doctor-turned-politician and now Conciliator General of the Federation parried no question. He answered them all. And most important was that he spoke boldly about the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Eastern Security Network (ESN) at a time most leaders of thought and people of influence in the region were still calling them ‘Unknown Gunmen...

ICYMI: Adesina hails Kumuyi, lambasts Preachers making Negative Prophecies

30Apr

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Religion

ICYMI: Adesina hails Kumuyi, lambasts Preachers making Negative Prophecies

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, on Thursday night, lambasted preachers making negative prophecies about Nigeria. He urged such clerics to rather emulate the Founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor William Kumuyi, in his optimism that Nigeria will fly again, despite the multifarious challenges confronting the nation at the moment. The presidential spokesman made this known in a piece titled, ‘Nigeria Will Fly Again: We Can Believe Kumuyi’. He wrote, “To Kumuyi and the state of the nation. Nigeria can fly again. There will be a turnaround. But that’s not what we hear from most preachers today. They talk of doomsday, encourage their members to hate the country and its leadership, give negative prophecies ...

Wars and Rumours of War, by Femi Adesina

12Mar

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Boko Haram, Fulani Herdsmen, News, Nigeria, Safety, Security, Terrorism

Wars and Rumours of War, by Femi Adesina

Femi Adesina It’s often intriguing to hear eminent and well appointed Nigerians talk about disintegration, destabilization and outright war, as if it’s a picnic. War? Not a tea party, and not something you should wish even upon your enemy. Nigeria fought a war before, in which about two million people died. There was sorrow, tears and blood, till good sense prevailed, and we said there was no victor, no vanquished. The scars of that internecine conflict are still very evident in some parts of the land. Why then do some newspaper columnists, public commentators, ethnic warlords, even academics, talk of war as something they long for, an affliction they want to inflict their country with? War? Is it a picnic or tea party? Hear what President Muhammadu Buhari once said to the ...

The Facts Speak for themselves: You do not have to Speak for them – Reno Omokri to Femi Adesina

19Sep

By adminNo Comments

News, Nigeria

The Facts Speak for themselves: You do not have to Speak for them – Reno Omokri to Femi Adesina

Dear Femi: The Facts Speak For Themselves. You Do Not Have to Speak For Them I watched, with considerable amusement, Femi Adesina’s interview on Channels TV on Wednesday, September 17, 2020, wherein Femi said that his boss, General Muhammadu Buhari, inherited a badly divided nation from former President Goodluck Jonathan, and has been working to unite her. Mr Adesina said: “As of 2015, when President Buhari came, Nigeria was terribly, terribly divided; divided along religious lines, divided along ethnic lines; divided along language, divided hopelessly, terribly and that is the division that the President had been working at.” Well, it is true that there are some fault lines in Nigeria, as there are in many other nations, however, it is false to say that Nigeria was badly div...

President Buhari Focused on Nation Building and Unity of Nigeria by Femi Adesina

13Sep

By adminNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Press Statement

President Buhari Focused on Nation Building and Unity of Nigeria by Femi Adesina

..this administration remains committed to honouring the promises made to the Nigerian people across the key areas of Security, Economy and fighting Corruption. To state that we live in challenging times is perhaps an understatement and does very little justice in accurately capturing our current realities. Those realities include a world faced with a pandemic the scale of which hasn’t been seen in 100 years. The crisis has crippled economies, destroyed global supply chains and obliterated once productive and viable sectors of the economy. Our dear nation has not been spared in this difficult period and, indeed, has felt the impact of the global crisis. But as a responsive government, the Buhari administration has within limited resources designed responses that are targeted at m...

Position of Northern Elder’s Forum, a Mere Irritant and Featherweight – Presidency

15Jun

By adminNo Comments

Boko Haram, Fulani Herdsmen, News, Nigeria, Safety, Security, Terrorism

Position of Northern Elder’s Forum, a Mere Irritant and Featherweight – Presidency

Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President has in a statement today referred to the position of the Norther Elders' Forum as "a mere irritant and featherweight." This statement was released in response to an earlier statement released by the forum in which it stated that the President had failed the North. This was referencing the daily killings by armed bandits suspected to be Fulani Herdsmen being recorded in different parts of the North. See Also: Northern Elders’ Forum Blasts Buhari, Says He Has Failed the North Responding on behalf of the President, Femi Adesina released the following statement: "The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) in a statement Sunday signed by its so-called Convener, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, alleged that the insecurity in some northern states of the countr...

Opinion: Ojukwu Was a Prophet – Femi Adesina

8Sep

By adminNo Comments

News, Nigeria

Opinion: Ojukwu Was a Prophet – Femi Adesina

I tell you, Ojukwu was a prophet, and like most prophets, he had no honour in his own country. In December 2009, I was at Aburi, while holidaying in Ghana. We Nigerians call it A-b-u-r-i, but the Ghanaians pronounce it as E-b-r-i. For those who have read widely about the civil war that we fought between 1967 and 1970, Aburi is a significant place. This was what I wrote about Aburi, after returning from that journey: “Aburi. Beautiful, serene Aburi, set daintily atop a hill. It is home to a botanical garden that is 119 years old. But for us in Nigeria, Aburi goes beyond just nature and its preservation. It is the town where General Yakubu Gowon and Odumegwu Ojukwu met, to try and avert the Nigerian Civil War that lasted between 1967 and 1970. They came out with Aburi Accord, which lat...