Sentences with phrase «of ailing president»

Former Head of State, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has declared that the only solution to present political uncertainty in the country is for the National Assembly to set machineries in motion for the impeachment of ailing President Umaru Musa Yar» Adua.

He also slammed those criticising the return of the 82 Chibok girls, which coincided with the departure of ailing President Buhari who went for further medical treatment abroad.

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Obama's visit in March 2016 had left Cuban leaders ambivalent about the hand of friendship he extended: Fidel Castro, ailing and almost 90, stirred from his retirement to attack the American president's «syrupy words,» and what he saw as an insidious plea for Cubans to forget the Americans» dark history with the island.

CARACAS, May 3 (Reuters)- Venezuela said on Thursday it arrested 11 top executives of the country's leading private bank Banesco for allegedly hurting the OPEC nation's ailing currency, the latest move against the private sector that unpopular leftist President Nicolas Maduro blames for a deep...

The government has suspended a recall referendum drive against hapless President Maduro even as it tries to entice creditors of ailing state oil firm PDVSA to accept a sweetened bond swap.

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro ordered a re-denomination of the ailing bolivar currency today by knocking three zeroes off amid hyperinflation and a crippling economic crisis.

Venezuela's opposition demanded that the government reveal specifics of President Hugo Chavez's condition, criticising secrecy surrounding the ailing leader's health more than three weeks after his cancer surgery in Cuba.

In «Duck Soup «-- the 1930s Marx brothers» film — a powerful rich lady tells the ailing government of Freedonia, she will only bail them out with another loan, if her favourite — Groucho Marx — becomes president: chaos follows.

Yusuf, the ailing son of President Muhammadu Buhari who was hospitalized following his involvement in a bike accident is still in hospital.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams along with more than 20 of Brooklyn's elected officials have penned a letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo, urging him to rescind his plan to grant Long Island Rail Road riders a 25 percent fare reduction and consider using the recaptured funds toward desperately needed repairs to the subway's ailing signals instead.

But while the wife of the President has allayed the fears of Nigerians on the health of her husband, the umbrella body of the North, the Arewa Consultative Forum, attacked the former acting National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Bisi Akande, and others for warning Buhari's handlers to stop exploiting the President's ailing health for selfish reasons.

«The crass ineptitude and lukewarm attitude of this APC government is no longer tolerable, and therefore, we are calling on President Buhari and his team to return Nigeria to its state of booming economy before they assumed office in May, 2015, and then quit immediately to allow other capable leaders recover our ailing economy».

Buhari's close allies, the All Progressives Congress chieftains and wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, have indicated that the ailing number one citizen was getting better and would «soon return» to the country feeling «stronger.»

To say publicly and at different fora that Nigerians do not deserve to know what ails their president is not only an insult but also a futile attempt at the «privatization» of the president and the presidency by very few individuals who erroneously think our presidency is their private estate.

Aisha Buhari, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari has returned from the United Kingdom (UK) where she went to visit her ailing husband.

He further argued that Nigeria, as a nation, should not have been in the present situation if the provisions of the constitution were respected by the leadership of the country, insisting that the constitution has specific provisions on how an ailing president could be succeeded, even as he noted that the refusal by the FEC to respect and apply the constitutional provisions had led to the present crisis in the country.

The President - elect's team said the gesture formed part of measures to save what they call an ailing economy from further tumbling.

He urged the President to pay more attention to the ailing economy of the country instead of junketing around the world, wasting $ 1 million per foreign trip, saying; «President Buhari has travelled to 24 countries in eight months, and will be spending 16 out of the 29 days in February outside the country, with over $ 500,000 being spent on estacode while the Presidential Air Fleet, which includes fueling of the planes and allowances for crew members is said to be in the range of $ 500,000.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos just announced his formal support of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for president, saying the businessman «has what it takes to create private sector jobs and fix the country's ailing economy.»

It said that the insinuation that Aisha did not see the ailing Mr. President was «a tissue of lies aimed at ridiculing the President, his office, wife and officials working with him.»

Government, the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, other members of the National and state assemblies as well as groups, organisations, corporate bodies and philanthropists to come to the aid of the ailing girl.

President Alpha Conde of Guinea on Friday asked Islamic worshippers in his country to pray for his ailing Nigerian counterpart, Muhammadu Buhari.

They spoke the day after President Barack Obama called the public option a preferred but non-essential element of overhauling the nation's ailing health - care system.

New York City Transit's new president, brought in this winter from his job as the head of the Toronto Transit Commission, faces the unenviable task of fixing the city's ailing subway system and restoring faith in its vital transit network.

Sorrow, carnage, tragedy and affliction has struck our nation in the last few days and weeks yet we have not heard ONE word about any of them from our ailing President.

Borno State governor, Kashim Shettima has said that the feat of releasing the 82 abducted Chibok Girls at a time many people had concluded that Preside3nt Buhari was not working because of his ailing condition has shown pessimists that the president is working round the clock.

Year - Round Schooling Can Cure Much of What Ails Us This opinion piece, written by vice president / president - elect of the Illinois Association for Year - Round Education, Molly A. Carroll, extols the virtues of year - round education.

After President Clinton devoted much of his 1997 State of the Union address to standards, he called the then - ailing Shanker and told him, «Al, this is your agenda.

In 2009 James joined Volkswagen Group as President & CEO of SEAT based in Barcelona and tasked with revitalising its ailing brand.

Here he looks at FDR and his wartime decisions, in particular whether the ailing president failed to react to mounting evidence of the Holocaust.

«With the stroke of the President's pen, millions of Americans would suddenly have hundreds, or in some cases, thousands of extra dollars in their pockets each and every month with which to spend on ailing sectors of the economy,» Applebaum writes in the petition.