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May 29 2020 marks exactly five years since Muhammadu Buhari is sworn in as Nigeria’s President. Buhari administration said it came with strong conviction to rid Nigeria of problems of corruption, insecurity and improve the country’s economy. In five years of his administration, have Nigerians see the promised change?

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The dismissed Kano State commissioner for works, Engr. Mu’az Magaji, has tested positive to coronavirus.

Magaji, on Thursday, in a series of Facebook posts, apologised to many for his inability to respond to their messages. He said this was because of his deteriorating health condition.

In another post, he...Read more at: https://politicsdigest.ng/index.php/2020/05/07/sacked-ganduje-commissioner-coronavirus/

April 2020 will forever be remembered for its tragedy of multiple deaths that struck Northern Nigeria and Kano state in particular, with the death of notable personalities, including parents of some high profile personalities, Politics Digest has learned.

From politicians (state governors and ministers inclusive) to academicians, business moguls to religious leaders...Read more at: https://politicsdigest.ng/index.php/2020/05/01/how-fintiri-adamu-lose-parents/

Kaduna state Governor, Nasir El-Rufai has explained why his administration decided that civil servants and political appointees who are among persons fortunate to earn incomes during this lockdown should make a contribution to the cost of buying palliatives for vulnerable citizens of the state who cannot eke out a living due to the lockdown.

The governor made the clarification while fielding questions from some broadcast journalists in a live media chat on Tuesday night.

He said... Read more here: https://politicsdigest.ng/index.php/2020/04/30/why-deducting-salaries-fight-covid-19-el-rufai/

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chapter in Edo State has called for the immediate investigation and empanelling of an Independent Judicial Commission of inquiry into the circumstances that led the state government to seek to renovate/construct the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office building in Benin City, the state capital.

The party... Read more at: https://politicsdigest.ng/index.php/2020/04/29/obaseki-renovate-inec-office-pdp/

The speech delivered by President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday to update the nation on the ravaging coronavirus and the lockdown to prevent the spread of the disease was leaked hours before its broadcast.

The fake version of the address...Read more at: https://politicsdigest.ng/index.php/2020/04/29/how-buharis-speech-leaked/

The House of Representatives and major stakeholders in the power sector have agreed to set up a joint implementation committee on the planned two-month free power supply to Nigerians to cushion the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The House recently announced its plan to...Read more at: http://ow.ly/Hg0c30qyyAV

A Councillor in Katcha local government area of Niger state has disappeared with palliative grains meant for vulnerable households in his ward.

The Councillor is said to be nowhere to be seen after been given 30 bags of palliative grains...Read more at: https://politicsdigest.ng/index.php/2020/04/14/councillor-disappears-palliative-niger/

While it may appear to be an arduous task for his peers and even some acclaimed inventors, Mr. Usman Dalhatu, a 200-level student of Mechanical Engineering at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, in Kaduna State, has designed and produced a manual ventilator, to be used in treating coronavirus patients.

Dalhatu, who just clocked 20...Read more at: https://politicsdigest.ng/index.php/2020/04/07/abu-student-produces-ventilator-covid19/

As part of efforts to cushion the effect of the lockdown in some states, the Federal Government has said that it has begun distribution of over 70,000 metric tonnes of assorted food items to vulnerable Nigerians,

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Sabo Nanono, made this known...Read more at: https://politicsdigest.ng/index.php/2020/04/07/fg-distributes-garri-nigerians/

As controversy over the link between 5G and COVID-19 rages, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ibrahim Pantami has again dismissed the fear of Nigerians, saying that he is not aware of any research linking the dreaded virus with 5G.

The minister said... Read more at: https://politicsdigest.ng/index.php/2020/04/06/pantami-clears-air-covid-19-5g-network/

As the federal government adopts cost-cutting measures resulting from the fall in crude oil price in the world market caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 budget of the National Assembly will be slashed by N25.6 billion.

The amount represents...Read more at: https://politicsdigest.ng/index.php/2020/04/02/fg-slashes-nass-budget-n25-6bn/

Primarily, the novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) can be spread through person-to-person contact and droplets (sneeze, cough) of infected persons.

Since it is also spread through contaminated objects, there have been concerns that banknotes could transmit the dreaded virus.

This concern escalated recently when a UK Telegraph article quoted a World Health Organisation (WHO)...Read more at: https://politicsdigest.ng/index.php/2020/04/01/can-naira-spread-covid-19/

In one its major shake-ups, the Nigerian Army has approved postings and appointments of some senior officers.

This is contained in a statement by the acting Director, Army Public Relations, Colonel Sagir Musa, adding that the postings are with immediate effect.

The posting... Read more at: https://politicsdigest.ng/index.php/2020/03/31/army-approves-new-postings-officers/

The speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly, Collins Chiji has ordered the member representing Nkwerre State Constituency, Mr. Obinna Okwara to leave the hallowed chambers when he suddenly started coughing and sneezing during the plenary.

This came as the speaker also... Read more at: https://politicsdigest.ng/index.php/2020/03/27/speaker-lawmaker-leave-chamber/

Nigeria’s Minister of State for Labour and Employment,. Festus Keyamo (SAN), has described the Covid-19 pandemic as God’s affliction on human race aimed at teaching them a lesson.

He stated this in...Read more at: https://politicsdigest.ng/index.php/2020/03/26/god-using-covid-19-lesson-keyamo/

The federal government has refused to confirm the health status of the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Abba Kyari, after he reportedly tested positive to COVID-19.

The Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, did...Read more at: https://politicsdigest.ng/index.php/2020/03/24/lai-abba-kyaris-coronavirus-status/

The Ondo State Independent Electoral Commission (ODIEC) has said that the local government elections scheduled for April 18, 2020 would still hold as scheduled despite the threat posed by Coronavirus to the country.

It insisted that...Read here: https://politicsdigest.ng/index.php/2020/03/24/covid-19-ondo-hold-lg-polls/

Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai has directed a partial lockdown in Kaduna state, saying that, all civil servants from Level 12 and below, should remain at home for the next 30 days, effective from Tuesday.

El Rufai in a state broadcast on Monday,...Read more at: https://politicsdigest.ng/index.php/2020/03/23/kaduna-lockdown-ganduje-kano-closed/

The All Progressive Congress (APC) National Secretariat has been closed to help prevent spread of Coronavirus pandemic, the chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has said.

He said this...Read here: https://politicsdigest.ng/index.php/2020/03/23/apc-secretariat-shut/

Some Northern youths under the auspices of All Nigerian Youth Projects’ has kick started the 2023 presidential campaign for the deposed Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi in Kaduna at the weekend.

Addressing journalists in Kaduna...Read more at: https://politicsdigest.ng/index.php/2020/03/23/2023-campaign-sanusi-kaduna/

The son of former Vice President of Nigeria and the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar has tested positive to the deadly Coronavirus disease 9COVID-19) that is ravaging the world.

According to the former Vice president...Read more at: https://politicsdigest.ng/index.php/2020/03/23/atiku-sons-infection-coronavirus/

President Muhammadu Buhari may have approved the reduction of pump price of the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also known as petrol from N145 to N130.

According to...Read more at: https://politicsdigest.ng/index.php/2020/03/18/nigeria-reduces-petrol-price/

The ‘chief singer’ of Kano emirate council otherwise known as Sarkin Wakar Sarkin Kano Naziru Ahmad has resigned his appointment following the dethronement of Sanusi Lamido as Emir of Kano.

Ahmad’s resignation followed...Read more at: https://politicsdigest.ng/index.php/2020/03/18/another-kano-emirate-resigns/

Former Emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi II has revealed how he was allegedly humiliated by security agents including police, DSS and others in their effort to force him out the Emir palace and banish him to Nasarawa state.

The former emir was ....Read more at: https://politicsdigest.ng/index.php/2020/03/15/police-dss-humiliated-me-sanusi/

Ahead of its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has removed posters and banners carrying the picture of its suspended national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole.

The party’s NEC meeting is slated for...Read more at: https://politicsdigest.ng/index.php/2020/03/12/oshiomholes-picture-removed-apc-secretariat/

If the alteration being proposed by the Senate on the 1999 Constitution by the Senate scaled through, sitting Presidents will no longer enjoy immunity in criminal matters.

Also to lose immunity is the Vice President, Governors and their deputies in the impending alteration.

This followed the second reading of a Bill titled...Read more at: https://politicsdigest.ng/index.php/2020/03/12/senate-remove-immunity-president/

Barely one month after operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arrested Governor Ganduje’s Commissioner for Special Duties, Mukhtar Ishaq for alleged N86 million fraud, eleven (11) aides have been involved in assets declaration mess.

A painstaking investigation by...Read more at: https://politicsdigest.ng/index.php/2020/03/11/ganduje-aides-asset-scandal/

Former Kano State Governor, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso has alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the dethronement of Muhammadu Sanusi II as the emir of Kano but the state government. Continue reading at: https://politicsdigest.ng/index.php/2020/03/11/buhari-removes-sanusi-kwankwaso/

The Kano State Attorney-General, Ibrahim Muktar has said that the state government did not banish the deposed Emir, Muhammad Sanusi II from the state.

Muktar said the state government was clear...Read more here: https://politicsdigest.ng/index.php/2020/03/11/kano-denies-banishing-sanusi/

The Kano State House of Assembly has set up an eight- man committee to investigate alleged violation of culture and traditions as well as religious norms of Kano against Emir Muhammad Sanusi II.

The committee on public petition was mandated to investigate a petition...Read more at: https://politicsdigest.ng/index.php/2020/03/04/kano-assembly-probe-sanusi/

Nasarawa State Government has announced its new resolution to prohibit street begging in the state, Governor Abdullahi Sule has said.

He stated this at the inauguration of the Child’s Rights Protection Executive Order, in Lafia on Wednesday.

The Governor said...Read more here: https://politicsdigest.ng/index.php/2020/02/26/sule-bans-begging-nasarawa/