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By Abdulkarim Ibrahim Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu is billed to depart Abuja on Friday, July 18, for Kano to console with the family of the late businessman, Aminu Dantata. The special adviser to the president on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga made this disclosure on X. Onanuga in a statement said, Tinubu will leave Abuja today for Kano State. However, he did not state when the president is due to return to the capital city after visiting the Dantata family. Onanuga said, “President Tinubu will depart Abuja today for Kano to condole with the Kano State Government and the family…

By Abdulkarim Ibrahim President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has renamed the University of Maiduguri after former President Muhammadu Buhari. Tinubu announced this on Thursday during an expanded FEC meeting at the Presidential Villa in Abuja in honour of the former Nigerian leader. Buhari, 82, died in a London hospital on July 13 after a prolonged illness, the Presidency said. His body was flown back to Nigeria and received with military honours in Katsina State before being taken to Daura, where he was laid to rest on July 15 in line with Islamic tradition. Tinubu, in earlier condolences, hailed Buhari as “a…

Today, we gather under a heavy shadow, drawn from the silence that surrounds a departed leader and the immense weight of a life whose absence will be felt for generations. We meet to honour a man whose presence once commanded this very room, whose voice once summoned the best in us, and whose convictions never bowed, even to the strongest winds of public opinion. President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, former Head of State and former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, has gone to rest. He was first among soldiers in war, first among citizens in peace, and first, without…