Tag: President Muhammadu Buhari

Buhari tasks African countries on Pan- Africanism, as Global African Diaspora Symposium 2023 begins in Abuja

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President Mohammadu Buhari has called on African leaders to create an interface for networking among Africa and other Diaspora around the world, to promote the implementation and institutionalizing of Pan-Africanism at the United Nations through the celebration of the International Decade for People of African Descent,     The President said the choice of Nigeria as the host country for GADS 2nd Edition was timely and historic in the face of the nation’s political transition to a new government.   President Buhari stated this on Thursday 27th April,2023 while declaring…

Buhari, Tinubu’s Appreciation Of Supporters In Perspective By Femi Ogunshola

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When the President-elect celebrates a relatively unknown you on your birth anniversary and mourn your losses via a Presidential Press Release, then it’s something to cherish, it suggest how much your support is deeply appreciated, even though you may not have had a physical contact with the president. For me, unlike Buhari, Tinubu will not put his On and Off line supporters under the bus.   You may think it’s too early in the day to commend such gesture as being exhibited by a President yet to be sworn in,…

FG Begins Payment Of 40% Salary Rise Arrears For Civil Servants – Excludes Doctors, Lecturers

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Only the 144,766 federal civil servants under the Consolidated Public Service Salary Structure will benefit from the new 40 per cent peculiar allowance introduced by the Federal Government. This implies that other workers under the employment of the Federal Government but operating under different salary structures will not benefit. For instance, university workers, who are under the Consolidated University Academic Salary Structure, and medical doctors, who work for the Federal Government, will also not benefit from the pay rise as they are under the Consolidated Medical Salary Scale. Other categories…

What to know about FG’s $800m petrol subsidy palliative

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The federal government, on April 5, 2023, announced that it secured the sum of $800 million from the World Bank as part of its post-subsidy palliatives scheme. Reiterating the government’s decision to proceed with the proposed petrol subsidy removal, Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance, said the fund would be disbursed to the 10 million households (about 50 million Nigerians) considered to be most vulnerable. Earmarking N3.35 trillion for under-recovery in the first half of the year, the federal government had said it would halt petrol subsidy payments by June 2023,…

Buhari asks Nigerians to forgive him

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President Muhammadu Buhari has urged people he might have hurt in the course of his duties to forgive him.   He made the appeal at the ninth and final Sallah homage by residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) led by the minister, Mohammed Bello, at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.   Buhari also thanked Nigerians for tolerating him over the last seven and a half years of his administration.   “I think this is a very good coincidence for me to say goodbye to you and…

Eid-ul-Fitr: FG declares Friday ,Monday as Public holidays

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The Nigerian government has declared Friday, April 21, and Monday, April 24, 2023, as Public Holidays for Eid-Il-Fitri celebration. The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government in a statement issued by the ministry’s permanent secretary, Dr. M.L. Shuaib on Wednesday, April 18, 2023. Aregbesola while congratulating all Muslims for the successful completion of the holy month of Ramadan, asked them to imbibe and practice the virtues of kindness, love, tolerance, peace, self-denial, sacrifice and good neighbourliness, as exemplified by the Holy…

FG unveils 5-year plan to address insecurity

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The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, on Tuesday, launched a five-year strategic plan for the Ministry and its Services/Board to tackle insecurity in the country.   In a statement by Afonja Fatai Ajibola, the spokesman of the ministry, the Minister said the Ministry of Interior is integral to the national security and prosperity of the country.   He said these are done through the four services – the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) which monitors comings and goings at the country’s borders, ensuring that those who are likely to harm Nigerians…

Why the minister of state position should be abolished, By Eric Teniola

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“We don’t want Minister of State again. It is like a condemnation, if you are in the office; they can’t bring file to you; if you are having a gathering like this, you can’t talk; you will seat down with your colleagues like a “mumu”, you won’t talk; if you go to federal executive council meeting, you can’t present a memo, it is the Minister that has the power. We don’t want that again”. Those were the exact words of Chief Donald Omotayo Alasoadura (73) at an event last year.…

President Buhari mourns ex Chief of General Staff,General Diya

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President Muhammadu Buhari has mourned the passing on Sunday of Lt. General Oladipo Diya, who served as Chief of General Staff from 1993 to 1997 and Vice Chairman of the Provisional Ruling Council in 1994.   The President paid tribute to General Diya’s bold and courageous career in the Nigeria military and dedicated service to the country as General Officer Commanding, 82 Division, Commandant, National War College (1991–1993), Chief of Defence Staff and Military Governor of Ogun State from January 1984 to August 1985.   The President recalled that Diya…

RESTRUCTURING: BUHARI WRITES HIS NAME IN GOLD By Law Mefor

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Restoration of Nigeria to federalism as agreed between Nigeria’s founding fathers (Zik, Awo, Ahmadu Bello, et al) and colonial Britain is what the deafening clamour for restructuring is all about. The 1999 Constitution is the worst in the nation’s annals for imposing a unitary system in a federal environment, with 68 items on the Federal List compared to a little over 30 flimsy and sundry items contained in the Concurrent List.   When the powers that confer economic autonomy to a federating unit are considered, virtually all of them are…