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The Special Presidential Envoy on Climate Action, Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, has stepped down from his role with immediate effect. He tendered his resignation letter on September 7, 2024.   Early Life and Family Background Ajuri Ngelale was born on November 13, 1986 to Chief Precious Osaro Ngelale, a former Honourable Minister of State for Water Resources, and his German-US-born mother. He grew up in Ogoniland in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. His father’s political background and his upbringing in a diverse family helped shape Ajuri’s early understanding of leadership and governance. Adeola Oluwatosin Ajayi Biography: State of Origin, Age, Religion, DSS DG   Ajuri Ngelale Biography: Education Ajuri Ngelale completed his secondary education at Government Secondary School, Port Harcourt. He later pursued higher education in the United States at the University of Kansas, where he earned a degree in Political Science. Ajuri continued his academic journey, obtaining a second degree in History from the same institution, further equipping him with a deep understanding of politics and governance.   Ajuri Ngelale Biography, Wikipedia Profile Full Name: Ajuri Ngelale Date of Birth: November 13, 1986 Nationality: Nigerian State of Origin: Rivers State (Ogoniland)   Career Ajuri's career began in Nigeria upon his return from the United States. He worked as a reporter for African Independent Television (AIT), where he gained prominence with his investigative journalism show, "Eagle Eye." His bold and incisive reports earned him recognition within the media industry. He later worked as a TV presenter, producer, and senior news correspondent for Channels TV, one of Nigeria's leading television stations. His work in broadcasting made him a respected figure in Nigerian media. Ajuri also served as the Lead Consultant for Public Affairs at the Federal Ministry of Power, where he played a key role in shaping public discourse around Nigeria’s power sector. Photo: Twitter/@AjuriNgelale In 2019, Ajuri was appointed as the Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to former President Muhammadu Buhari. His role involved defending the administration's policies both locally and internationally, and he became a staunch advocate for Buhari’s governance, frequently appearing in media to represent the administration’s stance on various issues. In July 2023, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu appointed Ajuri as the Official Spokesperson and Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity. Personal Life Ajuri Ngelale is married to an Igbo woman, and the couple has three children. Despite his busy career, Ajuri maintains a close-knit family life and is known for his devotion to both his professional and personal responsibilities. Photo: Twitter/@AjuriNgelale   Photo: Twitter/@AjuriNgelale   Photo: Twitter/@AjuriNgelale After his exit from Channels TV, he was appointed Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs by ex-President Muhammadu Buhari. Photo: Twitter/@AjuriNgelale   Ajuri Ngelale Marriage Photo: Twitter/@AjuriNgelale Ajuri Ngelale is married to an Igbo lady and they both have three kids. Ajuri Ngelale Achievements. Ajuri Ngelale has authored two books, Struggle for Nigeria’s Soul and Buhari: From General to President. He is regarded as an accomplished investigative journalist, having made significant contributions to the field of media with his “Eagle Eye” reports. Photo: Twitter/@AjuriNgelale Ajuri Ngelale Controversy. Ajuri's position as a spokesperson for the government and his unwavering defense of former President Buhari’s policies has often drawn public backlash. Critics have targeted him for his vocal support of contentious government decisions, and he has faced public criticism for his statements on the government's handling of various issues. One significant controversy surrounded his interview with CNN, where he made claims about the 2023 Nigerian elections that were later disputed.

His comments regarding election day violence and the conduct of the election led to widespread debate, with fact-checkers examining the accuracy of his statements.   Photo: Twitter/@AjuriNgelale Ajuri Ngelale has carved a niche for himself in Nigerian media and politics through his work as a journalist, political analyst, and public spokesperson. His career reflects a strong commitment to public service, though it has not been without its share of controversy.

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By • Olalekan Fagbade JUST IN: Nigerian Ambassador to Morocco dies at 42 years of age Nigeria’s Ambassador to Morocco, Alhaji Mansur Nuhu Bamalli, also known as the Magajin Garin Zazzau and a biological younger brother of the Emir of Zazzau, has passed away. He died at a private hospital in Lagos while in transit to Morocco. A statement from the Zazzau emirate council’s media and publicity officer confirmed his death, with funeral arrangements to be announced later. Ambassador Bamalli is survived by his wife and two children. Ex-President Muhammadu Buhari had appointed him just a year ago in recognition of his decades of meritorious service in the Nigerian Foreign Service. He was previously a deputy director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Nigeria’s foreign ambassadors were recalled across 300 foreign missions, but many are yet to return to the country due to logistical issues, including obtaining the Authority to Incur Expenditures (AIEs) for their return travel #Nigeria’sAmbassadortoMoroccodiesat42yearsofage

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FEC: Tinubu swears in three more ministers

President Bola Tinubu swore in three additional ministers into his 48-member cabinet at the Presidential Villa Abuja, on Monday. The newly inaugurated ministers are Jamila Bio Ibrahim, Ayodele Olawande and Balarabe Lawal. DAILY POST reports that they took the oath of office at 12:15 pm at the Council Chamber of the State House before the start of the Federal Executive Council meeting which Tinubu is presiding over. This comes nearly two weeks after the Senate cleared the trio after screening on October 4, 2023. On September 17, 2023, President Tinubu nominated Ibrahim and Olawande as Minister of Youth and Minister of State for Youth, respectively. He also requested the Senate to screen Balarabe Lawal as minister from Kaduna. Lawal, who served as secretary to the government under former Governor Nasir El-Rufai, replaced his principal in Tinubu’s cabinet as minister of environment. Ibrahim, 37, hails from Kwara State. She is a medical doctor, politician and development expert and advocate of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Before her recent appointment, she served as the National President of the APC Young Women Forum. Olawande, 34, is a community development expert and youth leader within the All Progressives Congress. Before his nomination, Olawande served as the special adviser on innovation to the former president, Muhammadu Buhari, office of the vice president, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo. He occupied the role from 2019 to 2023. Before the meeting began, the Council observed a minute’s silence in honour of Mobolaji Ajose-Adeogun, who passed on July 1, 2023. Ajose-Adeogun died at the age of 96. He was appointed the Minister of Federal Capital in 1976 by the Murtala Mohammed military regime and served in the position till 1979. Monday’s meeting is the second since President Tinubu assumed office on May 29, 2023. Read the full article

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Buhari mourns former AGF Bola Ajibola

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the death of former Attorney General of the Federation, Prince Bola Ajibola. The President also condoled with the legal luminary who doubled as Minister of Justice while in the service of Nigeria. He passed on at the age of 89. While commiserating with the legal community in Nigeria and worldwide, President Buhari noted that the outstanding…

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Nigeria’s 1966 coup d’état ushered a group of young military men into power, where they remain today as kingmakers, wielding immense political influence.

In this circle of elites known as the Class of ‘66 is Nigeria’s outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari and the former military leader and later civilian president, Olusegun Obasanjo. The late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, who was handpicked as Obasanjo’s successor, was the younger brother of an army officer turned vice president during the junta’s rule in the 1970s. Even Nigeria’s former civilian president, Goodluck Jonathan (the only president to have lasted just one term), was previously vice president to Yar’Adua.

Unprecedented young voter participation in this year’s presidential election aimed to break the two main parties’ 24-year monopoly (unbroken since democracy returned in 1999). Not only was a member of the Class of ‘66 not on the ballot, but neither was an incumbent, because Buhari has served his two-term limit. Around 40 percent of Nigerian voters are under the age of 35, and the vast majority of those voters cast their ballots for the Labour Party’s Peter Obi, who at 61 was the youngest of the top three contenders.

But in an election dogged by abysmal planning and fraud allegations, political “kingmaker” and ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who turns 71 later this month, emerged as the leader of a country with a median age of 18.

Tinubu’s exact age is contested; his critics suspect he is older. Few Nigerians wanted another leader in frail health (Tinubu once posted a video of himself riding an exercise bike as proof to Nigerians that he wasn’t dead) let alone a continuation of an APC leadership characterized by impunity for the massacre of children in its war with Boko Haram and of young people during protests against police abuse. His party’s terrible policy choices include blocking dollar access for food imports and a botched currency swap inflicting economic pain on households.

Tinubu may have won the top job on his first attempt, but his 37 percent share of votes is the lowest mandate of any democratically elected Nigerian president. Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) got 29 percent while Obi took 25 percent.

The perception among some analysts is that voter suppression prevented a run-off.

At 29 percent, this was Nigeria’s lowest voter turnout in decades. Of the 93.4 million registered voters only 24.9 million voted, with incidents of thuggery and biometric machine failures preventing many Nigerians who had queued for hours from voting at all. “The bottlenecks around the elections enabled the emergence of a Tinubu win,” said Leena Koni Hoffmann-Atar, associate fellow of the Africa program at Chatham House think tank in London.

The hotly disputed 2007 election that brought Yar’Adua into power ignited calls for reform and ushered in the 2022 electoral act and use of new technology. In that election, Yar’Adua won more votes in key areas than there were voters. “It is very ironic that the first election after the passage of the act from this long period of election reform is one that has caused such injury to the public trust,” Hoffmann-Atar said.

In some states such as Lagos where Tinubu lost by a small margin, there are reports that vote tallies transmitted electronically at some polling stations were actually erroneously uploaded totals from northern states—suggesting, for example, that Obi had a larger than officially recorded win in Lagos.

International observers slammed election day’s chaotic exercise. A 40-person delegation led by Joyce Banda, the former president of Malawi, concluded that the secrecy around some ballot counts “created confusion and eroded voters’ trust in the process”; the EU criticized logistical failures that “challenged the right to vote.”

Tinubu is a divisive figure who has been labelled “corruption personified” by one Nigerian politician. Money laundering allegations trail him. (Despite denying tax fraud allegations, he settled a $41.8 million lawsuit out of court in August 2022.) But his supporters credit his term as governor with having greatly increased Lagos’s revenue generation through foreign investment and taxation; and point to his pro-democracy activism, which led to his exile under dictator Sani Abacha. Nigerian newspaper This Day editor  Shaka Momodu cuttingly wrote that Tinubu’s “desire to be seen and called a democrat is only matched by the reality of his undemocratic tendencies.”

There are plenty of historical power structures and a divisive playbook underpinning Tinubu’s win. As a grandmaster of Nigerian political maneuvering and after decades behind the scenes financing or sabotaging political careers, Tinubu built himself powerful bases (alongside the erosion of the main opposition party’s strongholds) to win the vote.

He utilized regional and religious alliances like many Nigerian politicians before him. Outside of Lagos, in key southwestern cities such as Abeokuta and Ibadan, his campaign posters adopted a distinct phrase, “Awa Lokan,” meaning “It’s our turn”—merging his win with that of the Yoruba nation. In these cities, Foreign Policy witnessed his supporters calling out “Asiwaju”—his Yoruba title, meaning leader.

Tinubu also spent much of his time networking northern governors on a controversial Muslim-Muslim ticket alongside Kashim Shettima, a former governor of northeastern Borno State. He also claimed responsibility for Buhari’s presidency. “I am a talent hunter,” he once boasted. “I put talents in office.”

Opposition parties have ongoing litigation against Tinubu’s victory. PDP’s Abubakar—another political godfather—called it “a rape of democracy.”

The opposition parties are also blaming each other. Obi claims he won the election and will prove it. Abubakar, his former running mate turned rival, suggests Obi simply split PDP votes. Obi ditched the PDP last year when it became clear he wouldn’t be its presidential candidate, having been Abubakar’s running mate in 2019.

“There is a fact that he took our votes from the southeast and south-south and that of course would not make him a president,” Abubakar said. “You all know that to be a president of this country you need votes from everywhere.” Here he referred to Obi’s poor results in the north, outside of Christian areas, where he polled between zero and 10 percent. To win outright, a candidate needs the most votes and a geographical spread of 25 percent of votes cast in two thirds of all states and the capital territory. Northern Nigeria, which has 19 of Nigeria’s 36 states, thus determines elections.

Obi was dismissed as a “social media president“ but managed to outpoll the ruling APC in Nigeria’s federal capital Abuja and commercial powerhouse Lagos. The success was aided by young, digitally savvy Nigerians frustrated that the two main parties’ grip on power has failed to make their lives better or lift out of poverty the multidimensionally poor, which constitute over 60 percent of the population.

They wanted a president with a cleaner record, even if Obi is not entirely unblemished. (He was named in the Pandora Papers, a dossier of global leaders hiding offshore wealth.) “In Peter Obi, there was hope that Nigeria could change,” Edna Ugochinyere, a 24-year-old student in Lagos, told Foreign Policy.

Obi’s popularity is historic. Nigeria has never had an Igbo candidate come so close to the presidential seat since the civil war, when Gen. Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, an Igbo, seized power in January 1966 and lasted just six months in office before being overthrown by Hausa army officers in an event that culminated in the bloody Biafran War.

Until today, the inner circle of the Class of ‘66, from Gen. Yakubu Gowon to Abacha, have controlled Nigeria. Their terms in office have been characterized by unaccountability and entrenched corruption that have proved difficult to shake. As Michael Ogbeidi, a professor of history and strategic studies at the University of Lagos, noted, “The sixteen unbroken years of the military era from the fall of the Second Republic in 1983 and the restoration of democracy in 1999 represents an era in the history of the country when corruption was practically institutionalized as the foundation and essence of governance.”

When Buhari first seized power in 1983, his short-lived regime was notorious for having jailed some 500 corrupt politicians and businessmen. But under his current eight-year civilian tenure, Nigerians have become less safe and income per capita has fallen.

Tinubu inherits his party’s legacy. Nigeria’s youth unemployment rate is 42.5 percent, impacting 21.72 million people, which is more than the entire population of Senegal and about 70 percent of Ghana’s population. Islamist insurgencies have spread beyond the northeast. Nigerians are under threat from kidnappers, communal clashes, and various secessionists.

Almost half of Nigerians lack electricity. Total debt stock has increased six-fold to around 77 trillion naira ($167 billion), or 40 percent of GDP. Buhari controversially added an extra $50 billion in government overdrafts to state debt.

Unsurprisingly, between 50 percent and 70 percent of Nigerians want to leave the country. One Afrobarometer survey suggests 89 percent of Nigerians believe the country is heading in the wrong direction.

Many worry a disputed election in Nigeria could be consequential for other elections across the continent. Social media misinformation is circulating now, including that U.S. president Joe Biden has called for results to be cancelled.

Prior to the election, analysts had warned of disputes if the process was not seen as transparent. “In a very divisive election cycle like this—one of the ways to manage division is to ensure that every policy is seen to be fair and believed to be fair, that there is uniformity of process and national compliance to the legal framework on election,” said Cynthia Mbamalu, director of programs at Abuja-based Yiaga Africa, a non-partisan group promoting fair elections in Nigeria. “With the economic hardship we have a lot of people that are angry. There are a lot of angry Nigerians.”

The nation’s political landscape is perhaps irreversibly fragmenting as young voters grasp the immense staying power of so-called kingmakers—elite politicians born decades before them.

The flip side is data collated by citizens and at polls will be scrutinized over many months. “An election that was not as transparent as people were expecting it to be will maybe even become one of the most transparent elections, ironically, Nigeria has ever had,” Hoffmann-Atar said. “Young people are going to learn how to engage with politics outside of election day and how that is very crucial to winning on the day …. They are going to learn how Nigeria’s politics disenfranchises them.”

Ultimately, the fact that a third party even managed to challenge Nigeria’s two-party system is a significant albeit small democratic success.

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PRESIDENT BUHARI NEVER TOLD AG AND CBN GOV TO DEFY SUPREME COURT ORDER

PRESIDENT BUHARI NEVER TOLD AG AND CBN GOV TO DEFY SUPREME COURT ORDER The Presidency wishes to react to some public concerns that President Muhammadu Buhari did not react to the Supreme Court judgement on the issue of the N500 and N1,000 old currency notes, and states here plainly and clearly that at no time did he instruct the Attorney General and the CBN Governor to disobey any court orders…

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M3NSA and Steve Hanke on African Leadership

This is an addendum to my previous article on the negative reaction to Bola Tinubu's win.

After hitting "Post now", I thought about a more constructive response to what I was seeing online: rather than complain about the naked ageism and lack of criticality in the assessment that Tinubu was unfit for office, I asked myself what a "proper response" would sound like.

I did not need to think very far: Steve Hanke, the colourful American economist seemed like a template gotten right.

In his meanest tweet yet about the Nigerian government, read here, Steve dips into the Trumpian trope and calls the sitting president "Sleepy Buhari". He accuses him of working to maintain power rather than the rule of law, and goes on to call him corrupt and incompetent. Not old.

In tweets, here, and here, and here, Steve addresses instances of alleged corrupt actions, and points to the state of Nigeria and its economy as evidence that Buhari was a no-good leader, and his hand-picked president-elect will likely tow the same line. At no point has he yet addressed what's inflamed many young voters: that both men are "too old for the job".

There is, however, a good argument for "too old for the job" being codified into constitutions the world over, especially with regards to the highest public executive office. Ghana, for instance, has a minimum age limit below which a citizen cannot stand for President of the Republic. It only makes sense to have an upper limit, given the very well documented effects of immaturity and old age on a person's ability to get things done.

But that is besides my point. I would have been happy if such arguments were forwarded in the wake of Tinubu's win. Unfortunately, cheap shots are more fun to dish out.

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Ghanaian musician, M3NSA, tweeted a couple of days ago about two candidates from the NDC seeking office at the parliamentary level. In this tweet, he warns about either one or both men, citing his knowledge of them from the past.

I highlight this because on this one ocassion, Steve and M3NSA are on the same page, shining a critical light on African leadership by focusing on the stuff that matters more: outcomes of the leadership under discussion, character, etc.

I highlight this tweet because it flies in the face of the prevailing sentiment about the apparent source of our problems in the eyes of those who were disappointed by the recent Nigerian polls.

This moment of exemplar sanity for the otherwise radical M3NSA is a nice thing to dwell on, because it highlights the nature of the leadership situation in Ghana (and elsewhere on the continent), and the irony in how the next generation of leaders are already picking apart this current one.

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Ghana's political scene is going to heat up in the coming months as we're entering an election year in 2024. Given the state of the economy, the manoeuvrings of the main opposition party are a delightful playback of 2014-2016, when Nana Akuffo-Addo was the toast of the tired public.

Heck, I even read the NPP 2016 manifesto and ogled over the juicy bits in a previous post on this same blog. I can't wait to witness what will happen this time.

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RNZ Pacific 1310 1 Mar 2023

7390Khz 1259 1 MAR 2023 - RNZ PACIFIC (NEW ZEALAND) in ENGLISH from RANGITAIKI. SINPO = 45434. English, s/on w/bellbird int. until pips and news @1300z anchored by Susana Lei'ataua. Vanuatu is experiencing the wrath of Tropical Cyclone Judy with its destructive hurricane force winds damaging homes, uprooting trees and causing power cuts. Four Papua New Guinea fishermen who went missing at sea three weeks ago have been found alive. Family spokesperson Motu Lohia told RNZ Pacific the four were found drifting off Domara village, Abau, along the south-eastern coast of Central Province for about two weeks. "They had no anchor but they managed to use the motor as the anchor when they drifted on the reef. That's where they stayed for five days and [then were] found by the local fishermen." They survived off drifting coconuts and fish. The men, aged from 18 to 35, went trawling at 10am on February 7 and had been missing ever since. A Papua New Guinea politician, former cabinet minister, Bryan Kramer, has been found guilty of seven allegations of misconduct in office. A Leadership Tribunal found Kramer guilty of scandalising the judiciary by posting articles on his Facebook account and insinuating a conflict of interest with Chief Justice Sir Gibbs Salika. The government of French Polynesia has signed a funding deal for more than $US62 million for several green energy projects over the next four years. The fund was part of 27 engagements promised by French President Emmanuel Macron during his trip to the territory in 2021. A 2018 study found New Zealand children were exposed to alcohol advertising every day, with Māori and Pacific children exposed at a rate three to five times higher than Pakeha children. Changes in alcohol laws in Auckland proposed. Police officers were needlessly put in danger during the riots at Parliament when they were sent in without the correct protective gear, police advocacy groups say. About 150 officers were injured on 2 March last year during the full day push to remove protesters from the grounds and end the anti-mandate occupation. Tuesday's train crash about 350km north of Athens killed at least 36 people when a high-speed passenger train heading to the northern city of Thessaloniki careered into a freight train from the opposite direction, flying off the track and bursting into flames. Former Lagos governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu has won Nigeria’s presidential election, officials said early Wednesday, marking a victory for the ruling party despite the unpopularity of its outgoing president, Muhammadu Buhari. Sports. @1308z Cyclone Judy positions and windspeeds 185km/hr and predictions read in slow English by female announcer. Backyard fence antenna, Etón e1XM. 100kW, beamAz 35°, bearing 240°. Received at Plymouth, United States, 12912KM from transmitter at Rangitaiki. Local time: 0659.

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Explainer: Key voting blocs ahead of Nigeria election | Explainer News

Voters are set to head to the polls on Saturday to elect President Muhammadu Buhari’s replacement as he serves out the second of his constitutionally permitted two four-year terms. During their election campaigns, which officially ended on Thursday, candidates had to tailor their messages to appeal to individuals and the voting bloc they belong to. With voter interests varying according to age…

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Explainer: Key voting blocs ahead of Nigeria election | Explainer News

Voters are set to head to the polls on Saturday to elect President Muhammadu Buhari’s replacement as he serves out the second of his constitutionally permitted two four-year terms. During their election campaigns, which officially ended on Thursday, candidates had to tailor their messages to appeal to individuals and the voting bloc they belong to. With voter interests varying according to age…

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By • Olalekan Fagbade Labour backs tenure system for directors, permanent secretaries, demands immediate compliance   THE organised labour has expressed support in favour of the recent restored tenure system for directors in the public service rule in Nigeria. They also demanded immediate compliance to a recent circular issued by the Office of Head of Service of the Federation (OHSF) directing the effectiveness of the tenure restoration. National President of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN), Comrade Tommy Etim Okon, told journalists in Abuja that reversal of the tenure system was approved by former President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, in response to protest letters by unions, contrary to information in some quarters that it was a creation of the OHSF. He said tenure system of the position of director in the public service rule of the federation, ab initio, served as a tool to create vacancies, promotion and progress in the career of public and civil servants in the country. Okon added that the tenure rule was aborted earlier in the administration of the immediate past president by those who wanted to sit tight in a juicy position but following protest letters from ASCSN and other unions, the tenureship rule was restored. He said, “When tenure was abolished by the administration of Muhmmadu Buhari, the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria wrote and made a case for restoration of that tenure system which Mr President graciously approved before he left office. “It became obvious that it was to be embedded in the public service rule. The coming out of that rule was not a creation of the Head of Service at all. That fact needs to be established for everyone who cares to know because I have seen a lot of castigation against the Head of Service of the Federation because of the reversal of the rule. “It was the request of the union (ASCSN) that the tenure system, which was aborted by former President Buhari, be restored and the reason was to give opportunities for growth and promotion because some people will spend almost 15 years in a post as a director. Some spend 20 years as a director, some will not even want to leave directorate to go to permanent secretary. So, that was why we stood against the abolition of tenure system. Now tenure system has been revised in the public service and the circular for it is out and it needs to be implemented.” “Let’s not also not forget that there are also exclusion because there are those who are educational officers that their tenure were extended by former President Buhari’s administration to cover 65 years of age and 40 years in service. “A lot of people have remained as a director for over eight, 10 years. Some have even extended over 15 years so they think it should business as usual. But it shouldn’t be so, because the rule covers the civil service. So, if the same rule brought you into the civil service, you should abide by the rule. “Tenure restoration is in the interest of the entire working people. The reason is simple. As they move, they create vacancies so that there won’t be any stagnation in the service. Of course, when you get to the top, it is going to be pyramid. It cannot be an inverted pyramid. It therefore means that the top has to be thinner. Everybody cannot be permanent secretary. But definitely it is expected that when you rise in your career as a director, you have gotten to the top and have that fulfillment in your career. So where we now have stagnation from assistant director, deputy director is because of the over bloatedness in the directorate cadre.” #Labour

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9th NASS: We’ve done credibly well – Outgoing lawmakers

Some House of Representatives members in the 9th National Assembly have said they performed credibly well in ensuring the delivery of democratic dividends to Nigerians. A section of those interviewed at the sideline of the valedictory session for members of the 9th assembly in Abuja, said the assembly had set a standard for the 10th assembly to beat. Rep. Ado Doguwa, the Majority Leader, said it had done well by enacting critical legislations that affected the lives of ordinary Nigerians. “One of the legislations was the historical passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill which couldn’t be passed by the past assembly because providence of time and circumstances did not allow them to have it on ground, this great 9th assembly made that history and we have a new trajectory in the oil sector. “The Electoral Act has undergone a lot of legislative processes and amendments to ensure that our electoral process is at power with and complete shoulder to shoulder with developed democracies,” he said. Rep. Nicholas Ossai (PDP-Delta) said it had been impactful and productive. Ossai, who represented Ndokwa East/Ndokwa West/Ukwuani Federal Constituency, urged the 10th assembly to build on the achievements. “Judging by the legislative agenda that was setup to measure performance, the 9th assembly was one of the best in terms of performance. “Some of us were part of it and I am proud to congratulate my colleagues. “During the COVID-19 pandemic, the assembly sat to address the basic economic problems of this country and the issues of the pandemic; it shows seriousness, commitment and patriotism and that is what we are witnessing today. “The 9th Assembly embarked on constitutional amendment and today I am proud to say that former President Muhammadu Buhari assented to as many of the bills that were passed by this assembly, I think it was very productive,” he said. Rep. Abbas Adigun (PDP-Oyo) corroborated Ossai’s claim, saying the assembly was one of the best. “If we look back, there were things that we wanted to achieve; but we have done so well in terms of the electoral act, the education sector, infrastructure development, we have done well in passing so many bills. “There is one thing I think we should have done, we raised the issue but it did not go far; it is about the age of who can come to the National Assembly and how many times can a person return. “I would like to see the 10th Assembly work on the age and put the maximum age limit at 60 years; if you are more than 60, you should not be able to contest for any office in the National Assembly in order to give room for the young generation that are coming. “Then the time you can spend in the National Assembly in either the Senate or the House, I believe it should not be more than two terms as it is in the executive,’’ he said. He added: “There is so much poverty in the land and so many people are coming into politics, this is to open the door for new ideas and experiences, I think they should limit the National Assembly to two terms only.” Rep. Chukwu Umumoji (PDP-Anambra) also said the assembly had performed beyond expectations. “I think the 9th Assembly should have gone further to checkmate the executive, there were certain things we would have stopped, especially the ASUU strike. “I think whatever ASUU needs, since education is very important in nation’s building, such demand should be met immediately by the government; that prolonged strike was a very big distraction not for the children and the representatives, I am not happy about that,’’ he said. Read the full article

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Explainer: Key voting blocs ahead of Nigeria election | Explainer News

Voters are set to head to the polls on Saturday to elect President Muhammadu Buhari’s replacement as he serves out the second of his constitutionally permitted two four-year terms. During their election campaigns, which officially ended on Thursday, candidates had to tailor their messages to appeal to individuals and the voting bloc they belong to. With voter interests varying according to age…

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Goodluck Jonathan Celebrated By Buhari At Age 65

Goodluck Jonathan Celebrated By Buhari At Age 65

Goodluck Jonathan Celebrated By Buhari At Age 65 On November 20, 2022, the former president Dr. Goodluck Jonathan turned 65. President Muhammadu Buhari celebrated with him. The President highlighted the former president’s unique position in the growth and development of the country in a message of congratulations delivered on Saturday in Abuja by his spokesperson, Mr. Femi Adesina. He praised…

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Breaking: President Buhari To Honour Dapo Abiodun With Industrial Revolution Award Tomorrow

Breaking: President Buhari To Honour Dapo Abiodun With Industrial Revolution Award Tomorrow

In recognition of his efforts to enhance rapid industrialisation, enhance the ease of doing business and make the state Nigeria’s top investment destination, the Ogun State governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun will, on Friday, October 21, be decorated by President Muhammadu Buhari with the Distinguished Award for Industrial Revolution. This was made known in a letter dated September 21, 2022 and…

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Buhari Urges Nigerian Varsities to Emulate Unilorin

Buhari Urges Nigerian Varsities to Emulate Unilorin

President Muhammadu Buhari has charged other institutions of higher learning in the country to take a cue from the University of Ilorin by always working for and maintaining peace at all times. The President, who made the call last Saturday (October 23, 2021) in his address at the 36th Convocation of the University of Ilorin, pointed out that “our universities must remain citadels of learning,…