Month: October 2023

Tinubu appoints 7 new aides, deploys them to Ministry of Justice (Full List)

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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed seven new aides to the Federal Ministry of Justice, Abuja, where they will work under the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN. According to PREMIUM TIMES, the appointees include: Kamarudeen Ogundele, special assistant to the President on communication and publicity; Hussein Oloyede, special assistant on arbitration, drafting and regulations; Rotimi Oyedepo (SAN), special assistant on financial crimes and public prosecution compliance. The rest are: Monsurat Gafar, special assistant on coordination and intergovernmental agency relations; Marcus-Obiene Fernández, special assistant…

Between Wike and Gumi, who really owns Abuja? By Lasisi Olagunju

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Before Abuja, there was Lagos as our Federal Capital. And this is where I would want to believe that there is something about our North and Federal Capital Territories. Before independence and immediately after independence, Lagos had a succession of two ministers of Lagos Affairs, both were northerners. One was Alhaji Musa Yar’Adua, father of the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. There was also Muhammadu Ribadu, grandfather of our immediate past First Lady, Hajia Aisha Buhari. Years later, Nigeria moved to Abuja and a long line of FCT ministers was…

Solaris, Knownow, Specxs win NCC’s talent hunt

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Solaris GreenTech Hub, Knownow Africa Limited and Specxs Care Limited,has merged winners at the 2023 Nigerian Communication Commission’s inspired technology innovation(NCC)Annual Hackathon Competition, adjudged by an independent Panel of Judges chaired by the President of Digital Bridge Institute (DBI), Prof. Mohammed Ajiya. Solaris, whose team comprised Chiemela Anosike, Ineke Chinecherem and Onoh Chiemela, won in the Renewable Energy Solution category of the hackathon with their green energy solution that provided clean energy hubs for people in rural communities to be able to charge their phones and other mobile/electronic devices. Knownow,…

BEFORE WE PILLORY OUR LEGISLATORS By Sam Ted

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It is no hype that the nation is contending with a concatenation of socio-economic challenges. Without mincing words, it has become a tough row to hoe fixing overnight the long-standing comatose economic situation under which a common man in perpetuity has been activated in a survival mode as he strives unabated to keep his head above the subsistence level of living. The current deplorable state of the nation, in no small degree, has animated an avalanche of criticism that has greeted the proposed purchase of functional vehicles for members of…

NILDS seeks more funding for NASS Members

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The National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS) has called for more funding for members of the National Assembly (NASS) for effective monitoring of budget implementation by the executive arm of the government.   Director General of NILDS, Prof. Abubakar Sulaiman made the call in Abuja on Friday while lamenting the difficulties and challenges faced by the standing committees in the NASS in carrying out their oversight functions.   Speaking during a visit by the leadership of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) FCT Correspondents Chapel, Prof. Sulaiman said…

FG procures 6 attack helicopters from Turkey

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Minister of Defence,Mohammed Badaru and Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Hassan Abubakar are currently in Turkey to expedite the delivery of T-129 ATAK helicopters to the Nigerian Air Force (NAF).   The federal government procured six units of T-129 ATAK helicopters from the Turkish Aerospace Industry, out of which two are to be delivered to NAF in the coming weeks.   The remaining four helicopters are expected to be delivered before the end of the second quarter of 2024.   Director of Public Relations and Information at NAF, Air…

Nigerian Navy launches 76 metres high endurance offshore patrol vessels

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The launching Ceremony for the first of the Nigerian Navy (NN) 2 x 76m, 1200 Tons High Endurance Offshore Patrol Vessels (HE OPVs) was held at the Dearsan Shipyard, Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey on Thursday 26 October 2023.   The newly built HE OPV P203 was launched by the Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS) – Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ikechukwu Ogalla. It would be recalled that the NN signed a contract with Dearsan Shipyard, Turkey for the construction of 2 units of 76m HE OPV on 3 November 2021 and the…

Sen Fadahunsi congratulates Tinubu over Supreme Court Victory

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Senator representing Osun East in Nigeria Senate ,Francis Fadahunsi, has congratulated President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his victory at the Supreme Court.   Fadahunsi, in a statement personally signed on Sunday, and made available to Newsmen, noted that the victory was an attestation to President Tinubu’s doggedness and sacrifice for building the nation’s democracy over the years in the interest of the people.   The statement read in part: “I want to congratulate President Tinubu for the victory confirmed by the Supreme Court.   “I have faith in the President’s…

Justice Dantijjo, public opinion and the rumble in Supreme Court’s jungle By Festus Adedayo

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Is there any connect between law and public opinion or judgments and public opinion? Before Justice Musa Dattijo Muhammad’s (rtd) valedictory speech at the Supreme Court last Friday, the connect or disconnect between those two had begun to assume a life of its own. The presidential election judgment delivered by the Supreme Court the day before heightened concerted quests for the nexus or disjuncture between them. In the Dattijo valedictory, it would appear that the Learned Justice had deliberately set out to take the sail off the wind of views…

Akpabio, Kalu lead Senators to Villa, brief Tinubu on outcome of IPU assembly, congratulate President on victory at S’Court

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President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio and the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu Saturday night led Nigerian delegation to the just concluded Inter-Parlientary Union (IPU) held in Luanda, Angola to the Presidential Villa, Abuja to brief President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the outcome of the event. Recall that Akpabio was elected into the Executive committee of the IPU, having been nominated by Kalu at the 147th legislative assembly for the executive position. The development ultimately led to the breaking of a 59-Year…