The presidential aide wrote ‘’So Zamfara is back home! Welcome, Matawalle’’. Governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle, has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Personal Assistant to Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari on Digital and New Media, Bashir Ahmed disclosed this on his verified Facebook page on Sunday morning. Read … Read more
Ahmad’s post was a direct reference to an earlier controversial civil war threat shared on Twitter by his principal. Personal Assistant to the President on Digital and New Media, Bashir Ahmad, on Saturday, took to his verified Facebook page, to taunt the Nigerian Twitter community over the suspension of the ‘operations’ of the microblogging site … Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed his junior media aide Bashir Ahmad to supervise a powerful and lucrative division at the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) — a role that supersedes his work experience and area of expertise, officials familiar with the development told Peoples Gazette over the weekend. Mr. Ahmad, 29, has served as personal … Read more
Bashir Ahmad, Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Social Media, has reacted to a tweet on homosexuality by outspoken human rights campaigner, Aisha Yesufu, asking her to state specifically if she was endorsing the prohibited act. Aisha Yesufu had on Monday tweeted: “You do not need anyone liking your of sexuality. All you need … Read more
Personal Assistant on New Media to the President, Bashir Ahmad, on Sunday claimed that a significant number of the abducted students of Government Science School, Kankara, in Katsina State, have been rescued. Ahmad disclosed this on Twitter last night but did not give a specific figure of the freed students. “A significant number of the … Read more
Bashir Ahmad, Personal Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari has discredited Sahara Reporters’ news story that he used the presidential Jet for his wedding. The wedding fatiha of Ahmad held, on Friday in Katsina State. The online newspaper wrote on it Twitter handle that “Buhari is in abuse of office for deploying Presidential Jet for aide, … Read more
The Northern Governors’ Forum has urged all stakeholders, especially in the North, to remain calm and be democratic in expressing their views about the suspended Ruga settlement project by the federal government. The forum chairman and governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong, made the appeal in a statement he issued on Wednesday in Abuja. Mr … Read more