Tag: President Muhammadu Buhari

BREAKING: Buhari appoints Audu-Ohwavborua as NDDC Acting MD,hours after sacking Awka

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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Engr Emmanuel Audu-Ohwavborua, as Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).   The appointment was contained in a press statement issued by the Director of Press, Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, Patricia Deworitse, on Thursday, October 20, 2022.   His appointment followed the sack of Effiong Akwa, the Interim Administrator of the NDDC.     She said this arrangement will subsist pending the appointment of a substantive Managing Director and members of the NDDC Governing Board.   According to…

BREAKING: Buhari sacks NDDC Sole Administrator

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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the disengagement of the Interim Administrator of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Effiong Okon Akwa.   This was contained in a letter signed by the Director of press, Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, Patricia Deworitshe, dated Thursday, October 20, 2022.   According to her, the President has also approved the constitution of a new Management Team and Governing Board of the NDDC in line with section 5(2) of the NDDC Act, 2000.   Akwa was appointed interim administrator of the Commission for the duration…

FG directs Network Service Providers to reverse 10% Upward Tariff adjustment

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The attention of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has been drawn to media reports of unilateral implementation of the recently approved 10 per cent upward tariff adjustments for some voice and data services by the service providers, on their networks. The consideration for 10 per cent approval for tariff adjustments for different voice and data packages was in line with the mandates of the Commission as provided by the Nigerian Communications Act, 2003, and other extant Regulations and Guidelines, as this was within the provisions of existing price floor and…

84 bills signed into law justifies collaboration with Executive – Senate President

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  The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan has advanced copious reasons to justify the current dispensation of collaboration between the National Assembly and the Executive.   Lawan said the prevailing harmonious relationship between the arms of government made the ninth National Assembly the most productive since the inception of the Fourth Republic in 1999.   He disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari had so far signed into law 84 bills passed by the ninth Assembly, the largest by any Nigerian President.   The Senate President made the disclosure in a…

The Flood Disaster And The Need To Declare A State Of Emergency And Activate National Emergency Response By Bashir Mijinyawa

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The flood ravaging many states in Nigeria which worsen over the last few weeks has assumed an alarming and National emergency proportion.It is described by many experts as the worst flood in Nigeria in recent history directly affecting and displacing more than 2 million people from their homes and resulting in more than 600 deaths.   The flood has brought the policy debate on the effect of climate change back to our National consciousness and the need for Nigeria and other developing countries to once more take the issue seriously.It…

Debt Servicing, Relief and Restructuring: Evaluating IMF/WBG 2022 Meeting By Adefolarin A. Olamilekan

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Emerging Economies across the would especially countries across sub sahara Africa have always had a date with debt servicing. And this alone is causing a huge deficit to their domestic fiscal policies. A situation that many of this emerging economies work through tight measure’s to ensure adequate budget in a fiscal year. For instance, African countries debt profiles read in hundred of billions of dollars. In addition to the burden of servicing such debt that had in recent times brings this economies to there knees. A scary example of debt…

And what’s so special about Switzerland, anyway?, by Hassan Gimba

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The Arbiter I had wanted to write about the awards conferred on deserving – and not so deserving – individuals on Tuesday by President Muhammadu Buhari. I thought I would be reading it today in Geneva, Switzerland.   I should have been in Geneva, today, attending the 2022 World Cancer Congress organised by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) taking place from the 18th to the 20th of this month.   I was not going to the congress as a journalist covering an international event. No. I was going…

Between Tobi Amusan and Teniola Apata: A Reflection By Omoniyi Ibietan,PhD

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I am having a rethink and indeed quite reluctant to take a firm position on this matter. I think the ladies (Tobi Amusan and Teni Apata) are differently circumstanced. Would it not be disrespectful for Teni to offer the President a hand first? I thought culturally, the younger African person ought to shake an elder who has stretched hand towards him or her. I mean, the elder initiates handshake in most cultures of Africa, including Tobi and Teni’s.   During the award presentation to Tobi, the President offered Tobi his…

Reading Through Buhari’s Last National Budget By Adefolarin A Olamilekan

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Budget is an important document that modern state use as instrument to guard their economic direction. Budget is also a financial description that details the total spending expeditures and projection income revenues.   Interestingly, budget can be view from either as capital budget and recurrent budget.This two view of budget is what economist acknowledge as the driver of economic growth as well as facilitating development.   Chiefly also, budget is regarded as the instrument that strenghtens Fiscal policies of the government. And at same an hindsight to Monetary measures and…

National Honours Award: Call To Greater National Service – Orelope-Adefulire

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The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals, (SSAP-SDGs), Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire has said the conferment of the national honour of the Officer of the Federal Republic, OFR on her was a call for more service to humanity.   Orelope-Adefulire was one of the distinguished Nigerians conferred with national award by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday.   Speaking to journalists after she was conferred with the national award, the presidential aide who is also a former Deputy Governor of Lagos State said the award is a call…