Tag: President Muhammadu Buhari

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…

THE ‘GOOD DISAPPOINTMENT’ WE WANT

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It’s the figure of speech called oxymoron in literature, isn’t it? When you talk of a ‘good disappointment.’ When apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction, it is called an oxymoron. When you have antithetical words with opposing meanings coming together. Examples: ‘A gentleman of the road.’ ‘A honest thief.’ ‘Why, then, O brawling love” (Shakespeare, in Romeo and Juliet). ‘Organized confusion.” ‘Deafening silence.’ These are oxymorons. I remember a teacher who had told us long ago: “You are a moron, if you don’t know an oxymoron.” Lol. But why have…

Buhari assents to 16 Constitutional Alteration Bills

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President Muhammadu Buhari has assented to 19 Bills in furtherance of Section 58 (4) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 16 these bills are Constitutional Alterations of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended)   The highlights of the assented Constitutional Alteration Bills, amongst others, are: • ensuring financial independence of State Houses of Assembly and State Judiciary; • Regulating of the first session and inauguration of members-elect of the National and State Houses of Assembly and for related matters; • ensuring that…

JUST IN: FG postpones 2023 national census

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The Nigerian government has announced the postponement of the 2023 population and housing census earlier scheduled for March 29 to May 2023.     Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed made the announcement when he briefed State House correspondents at the end of the meeting of the Federal Executive Council presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday in Abuja.   According to the minister, the decision to shift the census was necessitated by the postponement of the gubernatorial and State Assembly elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission…

Buhari congratulates President -Elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu

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President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the winner of the (2023) Presidential Election, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu .   Reacting to the results just announced, President Buhari said:   “I congratulate His Excellency Bola Ahmed Tinubu on his victory. Elected by the people, he is the best person for the job. I shall now work with him and his team to ensure an orderly handover of power.   “The election was Africa’s largest democratic exercise. In a region that has undergone backsliding and…

Ignore Obasanjo’s call for election cancellation, Gemade tells Buhari, INEC

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Former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Chief Barnabas Gemade has urged President Muhammadu Buhari and Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof Mahmud Yakubu to ignore calls by former President Olusegun Obasanjo for the cancellation of Saturday’s presidential election. Gemade who was addressing the press on Tuesday in Abuja, said Obasanjo was a meddlesome interloper who had nothing at stake in the election. He said the calls for the cancellation of the elections by the former president was an assault on democracy and the rule of…

Obasanjo writes Buhari,calls for cancellation of altered results .

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By Ehinomen Azeigbe Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has written a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday alleging that Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections were grossly manipulated and results uploaded without due process. Obasanjo in the letter he personally signed on Monday added that some INEC officials had collected “blood money” while noting that the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System and servers had “been manipulated or rendered inactive.” The former president in the release titled, “An appeal for caution and rectification” asked Buhari to order the cancellation of altered results…

Presidential candidates sign peace pact in Abuja

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By Godwin Ebiboute Leloh     Presidential Candidates participating in Saturday’s election signed a peace accord in Abuja on Wednesday.   Omoyele Sowore of the African Action Congress, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, Peter Obi of Labour Party, Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party were among the presidential candidates who attended.   President Muhammadu Buhari alongside ex-President Jomo Kenyata (Kenya), and Thabo Mbeki (South Africa) also attended the event.

Of coup, interim government and allied nonsense By Festus Adedayo

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At times like this, two works of literature are my abiding refuge. One, written over a century ago, speaks to the melee both in the APC and Nigeria as a whole. It is a poem entitled ‘The Second Coming’ by William Butler Yeats. It was written at a time similar to that of present Nigeria. It was a time when it looked like the world was coming to an end. The casualties of the First World War were benumbing and overwhelmingly high. The deaths of millions from the pangs of…

INSIDE THE COUNCIL OF STATE MEETING *Obasanjo’s commendation for PMB, and what Emefiele truly said

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It is most likely the last Council of State meeting to be chaired by Muhammadu Buhari as President, and it held on February 10, 2023, at State House, Abuja. It was a hybrid meeting, with some attendees physically present, and others online. Former Presidents/Heads of State on parade included Gen Yakubu Gowon, Olusegun Obasanjo, Abdulsalami Abubakar, and Goodluck Jonathan. There were two former Chief Justices of the Federation, Modibo Alfa Belgore, Mahmud Mohammed, and almost all the Governors of the States, either virtually, or physically. There were two critical issues…