Category: Governance

The Hypocrisy and Unprofessionalism of Daily Trust’s Editorial on Punch By Farooq Kperogi

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In a professionally unusual editorial in response to Punch Newspaper’s editorial, the Daily Trust said today that “PUNCH went overboard” in describing “an elected government as a ‘regime’ and to refuse to recognize the president by his statutory title.” It characterizes this as “an attempt to delegitimise an elected president and the government he heads.” Daily Trust’s editorial is at once hypocritical and unprofessional. Let’s start with hypocrisy. Daily Trust doesn’t even pretend to be neutral when it comes to Buhari. It’s unapologetically in bed with his regime. This is…

Endless Borrowing Will Lead to Endless Sorrowing, By Atiku Abubakar

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John Quincy Adams once said “there are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.” He may have very well been referring to Nigeria of the last three years. Barely two weeks ago, I warned during my Founder’s Day lecture at the American University of Nigeria, Yola, that Nigeria had taken almost as much foreign debt in the last three years, as she had taken in the thirty years before 2015 combined. Now that is frightening. And very true. Frightening,…

President Buhari signs 2020 Appropriation Bill into Law

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President Muhammadu Buhari today in state Abuja, signed into law 2020 Appropriation bill . The signing of the budget was witnessed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Senate President Ahmed Lawan, Speaker , House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, Secretary to the Government of Federation, Boss Mustapha, Chairman Senate Committee on Appropriation Senator Jibrin Barau and Senior Special Assitant to the President on National Assembly(Senate), Senator Babajide Omoworare .     Read full speech of the President: PROTOCOLS 1. It is my pleasant duty, today, on my 77th birthday, to sign…

Gov Abu Sani Bello and 576km of Rural roads in Niger state. By Abdullberqy U Ebbo

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Very often people are disposed to expect lies from public officials. When we put out information, the first position is to doubt the truism of our content, especially when the projects we report appear fantastical. So I was not surprised in the least when I came under serious attack after I published that Niger State Government has in conjunction with RAMP, constructed about 576km of rural roads. The hostility has been unkind, some less kind than others as some even went as far as insulting my person and my parents.…

The NBS Classification, A Fallacy of Mischief

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Efforts to sustain the negative onslaught against the government of kogi state regained its momentum recently when the National Bureau of Statistics launched what appears to be a jejune hatchet by turning reality into fallacy. In her unprofessional and non empirical conjecture, it listed Kogi State as the most corrupt state in Nigeria. How it arrived at this satanic preposterous conclusion leaves sour taste of reasoning. Like the NBS, another agent of the smear campaign against the government of Kogi called BudgIT Nigeria towed the infamous lane of deceit by…

FRIDAY SERMON : Prophet Musa (Alaihis-Salam) And Tyrant Fir’aun (Pharaoh) By Imam Murtadha Gusau

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In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful Verily, all praise is for Allah, we seek His help and His forgiveness. We seek refuge with Allah from the evil of our own souls [and from our bad deeds]. Whomsoever Allah guides will never be led astray, and whomsoever Allah leaves astray, no one can guide. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, [alone and without any partner] and I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and Messenger. “O you who believe! Fear Allah as He…

Gov Sani-Bello Swears- in newly Elected LG Chairmen . …..Harps on increased IGR to facilitate grassroots development

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Niger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello has sworn in the newly elected 24 Local Government Chairmen with a strong call on them to collaborate with the state government to generate and boost the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in order to enable them to carry out their responsibilities.   Speaking during the swearing-in ceremony held at Government House, Thursday, Governor Sani Bello drew the attention of the Chairmen to the financial challenges facing the state and urged them to work closely with the state government in order to facilitate increased…

Gov Sani-Bello Swears-In HoS, ,Six Perm Secretaries

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The newly sworn in Head of Service and six Permanent Secretaries have been charged to be selfless and dedicated in their various places of assignment. Governor Abubakar Sani Bello gave the charge during the swearing-in at Government House. Justice Balkisu Gambo Yusuf who represented the Chief Judge of Niger State administered the oath of office while Governor Sani Bello presided over the ceremony. Governor Sani Bello who described their respective appointments as well deserved, called on them to remain dedicated and hardworking. “Your appointment is deliberate and is driven by…

Buhari appoints Edward Adamu, CBN Deputy Gov, as AMCON Chairman

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President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Edward Adamu, deputy governor for corporate services at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), as the chairman of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON). This was contained in a letter sent to the senate by the president on Tuesday. The letter dated December 9 reads: “In accordance with Section 10(1) of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) Act, 2010, I hereby present Mr. Edward Lametek Adamu for confirmation as Chairman of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria by the Distinguished Senate. “While hoping…

YEAR 2020 BUDGET PRESENTATION BY ALHAJI (DR) ABUBAKAR SANI BELLO, THE GOVERNOR OF NIGER STATE, AT THE NIGER STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY COMPLEX, MINNA; ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10TH, 2019.

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Mr. Speaker, Honourable Members, Fellow Nigerlites, Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen. 2. I am indeed pleased to once again address this Honourable House as I present the 2020 Budget Estimates. This kind of occasion usually afford us the opportunity to take cursory look at, and reflect on, how far we have fared in the outgoing fiscal year, noting our achievements and challenges in the course of the implementation of the fiscal budget, so as to guide our projections for the in-coming year (2020). 3. However, Mr. Speaker and Honourable Members, I…