Speech by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Ramadan Breaking of Fast with the Diplomatic Corps

President Muhammadu Buhari Addressing  Diplomatic Corps

Protocols:

I welcome you all to this iftar dinner and I thank you for accepting my invitation. It has become an annual tradition which I am quite happy to maintain.

2. This Ramadan season is auspicious to me in one very important respect as it coincides with our administration’s first year in office. It has indeed been a challenging time for Nigeria. But our government has striven to meet these challenges head-on and with a proper commitment to address them. Much has been achieved but clearly much remains to be done.

3. As everyone knows, the security situation that we met at inception in May 2015 was one that portended great danger for the unity and territorial integrity of the country. Boko Haram was running rampant across the country seizing territories. Today, thanks to our motivated Armed Forces, Boko Haram has been technically defeated.

Aso Rock lists President Buhari’s achievements in first year in office

On Friday, the Presidency released a long list of achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Government.
This is coming a few days to the first year in office of the Buhari Administration.
Buhari came into power on May 29, 2015.
This was after defeating the then incumbent, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, in the first of its kind unseating of a sitting president in Nigeria.

SECURITY:

•The relocation of the Nigerian Military Command Centre to Maiduguri, since May 2015, contributed to the success in the fight against insurgency in the North Eastern part of the country.

PHOTONEWS: Regional security summit in Abuja at the moment

President Muhammadu Buhari at the opening Regional security summit in Abuja.

PMB speaking at the second regional security summit in Abuja

PHOTONEWS: PRESIDENT BUHARI RECEIVED HIS FRENCH PRESIDENT HOLLADE

President Muhammadu Buhari recieved the French President Hollande in Abuja as the second Regional Security Summit (RSS) kickoff today. Other presidents that are expected are Cameronian President Paul Biya, Chadian and Nigerien Presidents of the river basin authority and President Benin Republic.

FACTSHEET: THE SECOND REGIONAL SECURITY SUMMIT (RSS)

THEME:  CONSOLIDATING COLLECTIVE EFFORTS FOR REGIONAL PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT

DATE:  Saturday May 14, 2016

VENUE: Transcorp Hilton, Abuja, Nigeria

OBJECTIVES:

The Regional Security Summit holding in Abuja tomorrow is the second edition of a gathering that first held in Paris, France, on May 17, 2014, with the following objectives:

• Strengthen Cooperation between the member states of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) and Benin Republic

PRESIDENT BUHARI, HOLLANDE, BIYA, USA, BRITAIN, EU, ECOWAS, OTHERS FOR SECURITY SUMMIT IN ABUJA

In furtherance of ongoing efforts by his administration to enhance the security of lives, properties and investments in Nigeria and neighbouring countries, President Muhammadu will host the second Regional Security Summit in Abuja on Saturday, May 14, 2016.

Participants in the summit will include President Francois Hollande of France who hosted the first Regional Security Summit in Paris on May 17, 2014.

President Buhari and the French President who is scheduled to arrive Abuja on Friday on an official visit to Nigeria will be joined at the summit by the Presidents of Cameroon, Niger Republic, Chad and Benin Republic.