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April 6, 2024 No Responses

Atiku: Electricity Tariff Hike Will Compound Nigeria’s Economic Hardship

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has joined the growing list of critics faulting the Federal Government’s hike in electricity tariff. According to Atiku, the move further compounds the citizens’ economic difficulties. The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Council (NERC) recently jacked up...

February 7, 2024 No Responses

Ministers, CBN, FIRS Pledge To Address High Cost Of Living

The Minister of Finance, Mr Wale Edun, and the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Atiku Bagudu, have assured Nigerians that the high cost of living being witnessed by Nigerians is currently being addressed. Mr Olayemi Cardoso, the Governor of...

February 2, 2024 No Responses

Atiku Faults FG’s Plan To Remit NNPC Crude Oil Revenue To CBN

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last general election, Atiku Abubakar, has described the directive from the federal government to remit revenue from the sale of crude oil to the Central Bank Nigeria (CBN) of...

January 1, 2024 No Responses

‘FG Must Address Economic Hardship In 2024’

May 30, 2023 No Responses

Tinubu, Atiku, Obaseki, PDP, Others Mourn Dokpesi

Tributes have continued to pour in for Chief Raymond Dokpesi, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and founder of DAAR Communications Plc, who died in Abuja on Monday. The family of Dokpesi confirmed the death of the media...

July 18, 2022 No Responses

Atiku Congratulates Adeleke, People Of Osun

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar congratulated the winner of the Osun governorship election, Sen Ademola Adeleke. Abubakar in a statement on Sunday described Adeleke’s victory in the election as a well-fought vi...

May 31, 2022 No Responses

Atiku Commences Consultations With Defeated Presidential Aspirants

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the 2023 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has commenced consultations with other aspirants who contested with him at the last Saturday’s primary in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) rep...

May 29, 2022 No Responses

Obaseki Congratulates Atiku On His Emergence As PDP Flagbearer

The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has congratulated Nigeria’s former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, on his victory at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential primary election. In his message, the governor hailed other aspirants...

November 25, 2021 No Responses

PDP Congratulates Atiku @ 75

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has congratulated former Vice president, Atiku Abubakar, as he marked his 75th birthday. The party in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan in Abuja on Thursday, said it was proud of...

March 23, 2020 No Responses

Atiku’s Son Tests Positive For Coronavirus

A son of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has tested positive for the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19). Abubakar revealed this on his verified Twitter handle late on Sunday night. Abubakar, who had a few hours before then issued a statement calling...

February 27, 2019 No Responses

INEC Declares Buhari Winner Of 2019 Presidential Election

President Muhammadu Buhari has been re-elected for a second four-year term. The 76-year-old defeated his main rival, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, with a margin of under four million votes. According to an official declaration by Prof...

February 26, 2019 No Responses

Buhari In Early Lead

President Muhammadu Buhari has taken an early lead as votes are being counted in Nigeria’s general election, amid allegations of manipulation. Mr Buhari has won seven of Nigeria’s 36 states, while his rival Atiku Abubakar took two states and the...

January 20, 2019 No Responses

Presidential Debate: Atiku Blames Buhari

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar said he failed to participate in the Saturday Presidential debate because of the failure of President Muhammadu Buhari at the debate In a statement, on Saturday night, Abubakar said you ‘can’t shave a man’s.....

January 18, 2019 No Responses

Atiku In US

In a post on Twitter on Thursday, Atiku Abubakar said: “Just arrived Washington D.C for meeting with US government officials, Nigerians living in D.C metropolis and the business community. Photograph of Atiku, clutching a bouquet of flowers, alo...