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Nigeria: Aso Rock Security Breaches
This Day, 18 June 2020
The President should put his house in order Read more »
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Nigeria: IG Begins Interrogation of Suspects Over State House Shooting
This Day, 17 June 2020
The office of the Inspector General of Police yesterday began the formal interrogation of police personnel involved in the sporadic shooting that breached security at the State… Read more »
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Nigeria: Aso Rock Shooting Shows There's No One in Charge - Afenifere
Vanguard, 15 June 2020
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday directed security agencies to carry out proper investigation into the shooting that took place last Thursday within precinct of the… Read more »
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Nigeria: State House Shooting - 'Aisha Right to Protect Buhari'
Daily Trust, 15 June 2020
Professor Abubakar Mohammed Siddique of the Department of Political Science and International Studies at Ahmadu Bello University, ABU and Director, Centre for Democratic… Read more »
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Nigeria: Presidency Confirms Shot Fired in State House, Probe Under Way
Premium Times, 14 June 2020
The presidency has released the statement below confirming reports that a shot(s) was inappropriately fired at the State House recently. Read more »
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Nigeria: Gunshots in Presidency As Aisha Buhari Moves Against President's Aide, ADC Arrested
This Day, 13 June 2020
What security sources regarded as 'security breach' occurred at the precincts of the Presidential Villa, State House, Abuja on Thursday night, when the First Lady's Aide-de-camp,… Read more »
Suspects In Shooting at Nigeria's State House Questioned
President Muhammadu Buhari is calling for an investigation into a shooting incident on June 11, 2020 at Aso Rock, the official presidential residence. It is alleged that the president's special assistant Sabiu Yusuf was returning from a visit to Lagos and was involved in an argument with First Lady Aisha Buhari and her children for refusing to self-isolate for 14 days, as per the COVID-19 lockdown rules. The first lady's guard shot at Yusuf who fled from his home to the nearby residence of President Buhari's relative, Mamman Daura, according to This Day.The interrogation of police personnel involved in the sporadic shooting that breached security at State House is underway.
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Aisha Buhari has said that she was addressed as "wife of the president" throughout the first four years of her husband's tenure. Aisha added that her new title would take effect ... Read more »
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Nigerian First Lady Aisha Buhari has been busy putting out fires since her return from a 2-month break which by all accounts, should be feeling like it never happened. Her first Read more »
