President Muhammadu Buhari has described Professor Isidore Okpewho, a renowned novelist who died recently at the age of 74 as a of literary icon.
In a condolence message to the family, friends and associates of the deceased, as well as Delta state, President Buhari praised his him for his multiple award winning and exceptionally brilliant academic showing.
He said that the late scholar lived a simple, dignified and exemplary life, saying that as one of the winners of the Nigerian National Order of Merit (NNOM) in 2010, late Okpewho brought pride and glory to his country through inspiring novels, teaching skills and mentoring of young writers.
The condolence which was issued by the special adviser to the President on media and publicity, Femi Adesina, quoted President Buhari as saying that the legacies of discipline, hard work and honesty which shaped the life and times of the scholar, and were interpreted in his works, will continue to inspire younger writers in Nigeria and across the world.
He then prayed to Go to grant him eternal rest and to comfort his family. [myad]
Established under section 153 of the 1999 constitution, the National Council of States is an advisory body set up to advise sitting presidents on issues including those relating to the prerogative of mercies. The body comprises the president, who chair’s the meeting, the vice president, all former presidents and heads of government.
President Goodluck Jonathan walked into the council chambers of the presidential villa few minutes before 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Setember 7, to attend the rescheduled meeting of the council that was widely advertised last week. It was reported that the meeting was going to convene Thursday with his attendance practically tied on the invitation of President Muhammadu Buhari. Jonathan who is currently entangled in web of allegations relating to corruption shouldn’t have attended the meeting on moral grounds since the hallowed chambers of the council is still being cleaned having been brought into filth through a cesspool of corruption that he had allegedly supervised.
The gross allegations also include masterminding the current economic decline, the resurgence of militancy in the Niger Delta, official graft, lack of investments in infrastructures and all that is bad in this country by the government. This makes it indefensible, seeing him hobnobbing with the saints of today who are in the helms of power despite his claddings with yet to be ascertained high level of gross of immorality.
His presence at the meeting on Wednesday is unacceptable in a change environment and should not be welcomed by an administration that is instituting indelible anti corruption reforms. He has no business in a government that is preaching and practicing transparency, intolerance to nepotism, favoritism, advocating forthrightness and morals for the future generation of Nigerians. The government and persons alike must stand by principles and also adhere to their pronouncements. There is no reason hosting Jonathan to perform whatever form of advisory constitutional duties, stands as a mark of hypocrisy on the part of the government and also showcases his continued dance of shame and aloofness in the public parlance even when some public affairs commentators criticize such stance.
Recall that he had refused to speak to the press during his last visit to President Buhari on corruption charges leveled against his aides that are still in court and unresolved. That, I believe should have guided his steps not to perform constitutional functions that should require the involvement of only those that happen to be incorruptible.
In the past, especially in the days of his administration, the meeting was well graced by former heads of governments or statesmen as you would want to call them. However there was a particular former head of state that never set his foot on the forecourt of the presidential villa that is adjacent to the council chambers to attend that forum except on two occasions that it became imperative. You know who! At other times it is reported that he attended the council’s meeting sparingly on belief that he was standing on the principles of integrity and wouldn’t want his ideals tainted by mingling with those who are saddled with the affairs of the country but rose through elections that were allegedly rigged and fraught with so many irregularities. That’s actually what defines a man-never sitting on the fence but taking positions that are popular with his beliefs and are in line with his ideals especially if he has followers.
Penultimate week, a government official asked in an article; ‘how can we forget?’ ‘We cannot forget the maladministration that occurred in recent past in the course of moving the country forward.’ We can’t possibly forget that the Jonathan administration allegedly misappropriated monies meant for the purchase of arms to the tune of $2.1 billion dollars: sharing the money amongst political associates, changing still serviceable vehicles of former head of states, emirs and other senior citizens. Funds meant for securing the citizens in the northeast that is ravaged by insurgents while the Boko haram terrorists pound the people in the region and at other times beating intelligence agencies in their duties to detonate bombs in some urban areas in other parts of the country.
The people would definitely also not forget that Jonathan presided over the regime in which $20 billion dollars allegedly grew legs and ran away from the coffers of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. And the present administration in that vein had assured the people that it was working with foreign intelligence agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigations of the United States of America and others, hoping that it would one day recover the $20 billion dollars from what part of Europe or Americas that it walked or flew to. We as a people are all ears to hear more of these revelations and more that are still being expected from the NNPC as stated by the Information Minister, Lai Mohammed earlier this year.
At a point that people are angry and are in the verge of losing their sanity because of an economic recession, I believe that the person that supposedly brought the country to its knees is disallowed from any gathering that involves the taking of sound decisions for the good of this country. Meanwhile, there are other areas where Jonathan is also being bashed over corruption and under performance recorded during his tenure as a president which I need not mentioned to push up my argument since the elements for the progressive discuss of this subject is already established.
Why then did he appear at the council, stealing shows and all that paparazzi display of the indolent? On a day it is also reported by the media that the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris Kpotun’s appointment was being ratified at the council? And I asked! Wouldn’t his presence at the ratification had been read to; one day influence, taint and affect investigations and decisions being carried out against him. Having been allowed to play high level executive roles in the capacity of the state’s council member? Except there are some truths Jonathan and this administration are hiding from the public, I felt it should have been better a precedence on instilling a level of credibility in the fight against corruption was set by this administration by disallowing Jonathan from attending that meeting or anyone in the future. And if the administration was not supposedly interested at further embarrassing him, he should have atleast voluntarily stopped attending the forum’s programme until he has a clean bill of health from investigations instituted against him. Not such allowing himself into spaces where his skin is bath with raw corruption acid over every of Nigerian headache.
However, in spite of the foregoing and the many troubles of Jonathan, some of the past heads of state and presidents are failing in health over age and may not be able to continually attend such forum as often as before. Former President Shehu Shagari and Head of Interim National Government, Ernest Shonekan fall into such category. Others could have been on international engagements, like in the case of the organizer of the Nigerian Praise, former Head of state, General Yabuku Gowon who actually took permission from President Buhari before jetting out of the country.
In the absence of those three, their spaces could be filled by the ever upright and committed member of the council, Olusegun Obasanjo, the mentally matured, Abdulsallam Abubakar and the unpredictable, Ibrahim Babaginda leaving little or no room for the persons of former President Goodluck Jonathan but like the powerful trojan horse, Shonekan attended the meeting; fit and fiddle while, controversial Obasanjo happened to have been absent from the forum.
A reason it becomes immoral for Jonathan to perform duties at the council in this dispensation having been labelled an administrator of criminals just waiting to be shame by the prosecutors.
This led to my verdict, which is the need for Jonathan to give himself a moral break from the council’s activities for now.
Ex Nigerian leaders: L-R; Cross Section former Head of State, Chief Ernest Shonekan, Genera Abdulsalami Abubakar, Former President Dr Goodluck Jonathan, former Chief Justice of the Federation, Hon Justice Muhammadu Uwais, Former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Hon Justice Alhfa Belgore, Former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Hon Justice Idris Kutegi rise up to pray before the commencement of the National Council of State meeting presided over by President Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on September 7.
President Buhari joins other leaders R-L: Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbajo, SGF Engr Babachir David Lawal, Chief of Staff Mallam Abba Kyari, Head of Civil Service, Mrs Winifred Oyo-Ita, NSA, Major General Babagana Mongonu and Abia State Governor, Chief Okezie Ikpeazu to pray before the commencement of the Ntional Council of State Meeting at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, Abuja.
L-R; Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Muhammad Musa Bello; Governor of Adamawa State, Alhaji Mohammed Bidow Jubrilla and Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha were also there at the National Council of state Meeting. Photo by Sunday Aghaeze. [myad]
The Federal Government has made it clear that Nigeria will never again import rice, dismissing social media reports linking the government and Dangote group with a plan to ‘flood’ the country with genetically modified rice (GMO).
In a statement on Wednesday, the special adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on media and Publicity, Femi Adesina said that what has actually happened was that the Federal Government in 2014 signed a $1billion Memorandum of Understanding, (MoU) for investment in integrated rice project with Dangote Industries Ltd.
He said that further to such agreement, Dangote Industries Limited this year cultivated over 8,000 hectares in Hadejia, Jigawa state, creating over 10,000 direct and indirect jobs for farmers who are the major beneficiaries of the scheme.
“In consolidation of the rice project of the Federal Government, President Muhammadu Buhari administration is also in partnership with the African Development Bank (AfDB) and other reputable companies to tap into the vast potentials in the private sector and broadening the economic base of the country.
“The gains of the diversification drive especially in the Agriculture sector are already yielding dividends as shown by the recent statistics in the sector as published by the National Bureau of Statistics.
These engagements will continue until the present administration has laid a solid foundation for the economic development of the nation.
“It is therefore ridiculous that a government that is wholly devoted to the generation of employment for Nigerians especially through Agriculture will turn around to get involved in an activity that will reverse the gains of the same partnership.
President Muhammadu Buhari has said it repeatedly that, ‘’we have the capacity to feed ourselves in Nigeria and even export from what we produce in the country.” He has also said that through the provision of N200 billion by the CBN for small holder farmers and processors involved in local production of rice and other grains, rice importation will hopefully stop in the next three years.
“It is unfortunate that while the Buhari administration is working assiduously with well-meaning Nigerians to bring the country out of the current economic situation it has found itself, a few self-serving individuals are bent on distracting the administration from the avowed focus to reflate the fortunes of the country through the diversification of the economy which, very soon, Nigerians will begin to see and experience the results.
“The Federal Government warns purveyors of such malicious information and those thinking of embarking on the same route to have a rethink and retrace their steps.” [myad]
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state has made it clear that the All Progressives Congress (APC), is “over-prepared” for the Saturday, September 10 scheduled governorship election in the state.
He therefore called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) not to postpone the election, saying that shifting the election would further postpone the “final burial of the PDP for too long.
“The APC is ready for the election this Saturday and that was why we held our mega rally on Tuesday and after that rally our people across the state became more committed, more dogged and ready for the Saturday election.
“I am already preparing to go to my village to also mobilize my people as other party leaders are doing, that is to let you know that we are not relaxing despite the fact that we know the PDP is already dead and our people are just getting ready for the burial.”
Oshiomhole who said that security issues are security issues and as regards elections they are very critical said: “if on their own they are calling on INEC for postponement, I am sure they must have their reasons because they are experts in it. If you recall, we raise the alarm that the PDP had planned to import thugs from neighbouring states to help them unleash mayhem on our people because they are not prepared for the election.”
Meanwhile, the INEC has confirmed that it is prepared to conduct the Edo State gubernatorial election slated for Saturday, September 10. The commission’s willingness to go ahead with the poll undermines requests by the police and Department of State Security (DSS) to postpone the election.
The two security agencies had on Wednesday morning threatened that “insurgents” and “extremists” would provoke violence during the election.
This was disclosed in a security report issued jointly by the police and DSS.
But INEC officials said that they heard of the “Security Report” while at a stakeholders meeting Benin City with the Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of Operations in attendance. The officials said that INEC is 99 percent ready and had already distributed non-sensitive election materials across the State when the devastating report hit its officers and ad-hoc staff
They said that neither the DSS nor the Nigeria Police Force consulted with the commission before advising it to postpone the election. INEC, however, was aware of the security report issued by the two agencies.
Saturday’s election between Godwin Obaseki (APC) and Osagie Ize-Iyamu (PDP) is expected to be tightly contested, with both camps engaging in last-minute efforts to secure victory.
Meanwhile, PDP governors have been pumping funds into local government areas surrounding Benin City, claiming that the party has made progress that would defeat the APC on Saturday.
At the time of reporting, INEC has yet to make a statement officially postponing the election, although a source at the agency admitted that the security report has psychologically demobilized its workforce. [myad]
Governor Ayo Fayose has said that henceforth, anybody who wants Ekiti State Government’s approval for his building or is seeking permit to build on any piece of land must show evidence of paying correct taxes to the government.
He added that a government team will duly assess the value of the land and the type of structures being proposed among other steps to either accept or reject the tax paper so presented.
The governor’s stand emanated from a meeting he held with the management and staff of the Ministry of Lands in Ado-Ekiti.
In a statement, the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi, on Wednesday, quoted Fayose as having also given the directive that some temporary staff be employed by the ministry to further boost its enforcement capacity. He also directed that some motorcycles be purchased, while he released a brand new pick up van for the ministry.
Fayose, however, warned that any official of the ministry found wanting would be severely dealt with, adding: “the ministry is supposed to be one of the cash cows of the state government.
“In other states, they generate huge revenue from the Ministry of Lands because people have to build.
“I am not impressed with the performance of the ministry so far. What we have are unapproved structures springing up everywhere. We also have a situation whereby people were given approval after being poorly assessed. Approving officials must be guided in what they do.
“They must not make themselves scapegoats on matters that do not concern them. Correct assessment of values of structures must be done. From now on, approving officials must put their names as well as their signatures on whatever structures they approve.
“We must evolve a system that whoever is seeking approval or permit be drawn into the tax net and subsequently followed up.
“The state government will provide a conducive atmosphere for you to work, but you must reciprocate that by improving on your performance.”
Fayose said that a retreat would be organized where those in the industry from all sectors would rub minds. [myad]
As the 14-day ultimatum issued to all owners of illegal structures, owners of abandoned buildings now harbouring prostitutes, shanties, street hawkers and those who have converted walkways into trading points and food courts in the affected areas expires on September 11, the Special Committee on Clean-Up of Ikoyi, Lekki, and Victoria Island inaugurated by the Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has concluded plans to commence the enforcement of the Environmental Sanitation and Town Planning laws in the affected areas.
The Secretary to the State Government and Chairman of the Committee, Tunji Bello, who disclosed this in an interview with newsmen on Wednesday, emphasized that the 14 days ultimatum would expire on September 11, saying that the Committee had decided to first embark on sensitization campaign to give the owners of such illegal structures enough notices to willingly pull down such structures themselves before the government pulls them down as well as prosecute owners of such structures.
According to him, every modality has been put in place to ensure that the original master plan of Ikoyi, Lekki, and Victoria Island as envisioned by the founding fathers is maintained.
He ssaid that the committee’s responsibilities include commencement of the implementation of the approved action plan and execution of the clean-up exercise; development of strategies for preventing re-occurrences as well as other recommendations.
It is also charged with sustaining the environmental renewal of these areas and to embark on a public sensitization exercise for the sustenance of a cleaner community in the axis.
The SSG added that the administration of Governor Ambode remains committed to doing everything possible to bring environmental sanity back to every part of the State.
“Cases of abandoned properties have become very rampant with miscreants and criminal elements taking over these properties as their base to cause havoc. The neat road sides of the past now parade pockets of kiosks, illegal parking lots, unapproved mechanic workshops, roadside beer parlours and commercial centres. In addition, originally residential areas now have industrial and commercial concerns located there, distorting the balance of the environment.
“These bad environmental practices, thriving in these prime areas, can no longer be tolerated and will be brought to an end immediately. These areas MUST regain their lost glory as this administration demands a return of environmental normalcy.”
Bello emphasized that the quest to have a safe, clean and prosperous Lagos is not negotiable as the present administration is committed to ensuring a cessation of the continuation of the environmental infractions being witnessed in Ikoyi, Lekki, Victoria Island.
He used the opportunity to advice owners of some of the illegal structures who may still be sitting on the fence or nursing the hope that the State Government would have a rethink on the Clean-Up to make use of the window offered to them now or face the full force of the law. [myad]
President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with the Government and people of Delta State, the Urhobos nation and the family of Olorogun Michael Ibru, who died on Tuesday, aged 85.
President Buhari who described late Michael Ibru as the patriarch of the Ibru family, said that the deceased was an accomplished businessman whose edifying role in the corporate world and private sector in Nigeria would continue to inspire generations to come.
He said that Michael Ibru will be long remembered for his hard work and dedication to entrepreneurship, which opened doors of opportunities to many Nigerians and associates who came in contact with his investments in the banking, aviation, tourism and manufacturing sectors.
The President advised members of his family and his associates to honour his memory by constantly upholding the values of selfless-service, inter-ethnic harmony, knowledge and perseverance, which he passionately promoted through his successful career in the private sector. [myad]
The Federal Government has declared September 12 and 13 as public holidays to mark the Eid-el-Kabir. The Minister of Interior, retired Lieutenant General Abdulrahman Dambazau, who made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government in a statement signed by the acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Muhammadu Maccido asked all Muslims and Nigerians in general to support and join hands with President Muhammadu Buhari in his sustained efforts to diversify the economy and progressively accelerate the pace of economic recovery. The minister said that government is aware of the current economic challenges the nation is facing even as he assured Nigerians that appropriate steps are being taken to address the challenges. The minister said that the Federal Government is working to revitalize the agriculture sector and the Youth Empowerment Scheme in Information and Communication Technology. Dambazau said that other areas of priority included the “The Change Begins with Me,” a value re-orientation programme, and other social intervention programmes as well as massive capital releases. The minister expressed optimism that the current economic difficulties would soon be over, even as he appealed to Nigerians to continue to support the government toward building a new formidable Nigeria. [myad]
The Council of State, made up of the present and past Presidents of Nigeria, governors of the 36 states, including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) minister, as well as other relevant national leaders, has confirmed Ibrahim Kpotun Idris, as Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police.
Idris, a longtime Police veteran of over three decades, has been holding the post in acting position. His name was presented by the Police Board.
The Inspector-General, who hails from Kutigi, Lavun in Niger State, was born on 15th of January 1959, and was enlisted into the Nigerian Police Force in 1984, after graduating from the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria with a Bachelors degree in Agriculture. He also holds a degree in Law from the University of Maiduguri.
The IGP has served in various commands and formations in the Nigerian Police Force, working in the Police Mobile Force for 17 years as Unit Commander, Squadron Commander, and Commandant. He served as Commissioner of Police in Nasarawa and Kano States and was also the Commissioner of Police in charge of Police Mobile Force at the Force Headquarters.
He was also at the United Nations Mission in Liberia and East Timor and was awarded “Medal of Merit” by the President of the Republic of East Timor in recognition of his service. [myad]
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What Would Jonathan Be Doing In Buhari’s Council Of State Meetings? By Moses Okpogode
Established under section 153 of the 1999 constitution, the National Council of States is an advisory body set up to advise sitting presidents on issues including those relating to the prerogative of mercies. The body comprises the president, who chair’s the meeting, the vice president, all former presidents and heads of government.
President Goodluck Jonathan walked into the council chambers of the presidential villa few minutes before 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Setember 7, to attend the rescheduled meeting of the council that was widely advertised last week. It was reported that the meeting was going to convene Thursday with his attendance practically tied on the invitation of President Muhammadu Buhari. Jonathan who is currently entangled in web of allegations relating to corruption shouldn’t have attended the meeting on moral grounds since the hallowed chambers of the council is still being cleaned having been brought into filth through a cesspool of corruption that he had allegedly supervised.
The gross allegations also include masterminding the current economic decline, the resurgence of militancy in the Niger Delta, official graft, lack of investments in infrastructures and all that is bad in this country by the government. This makes it indefensible, seeing him hobnobbing with the saints of today who are in the helms of power despite his claddings with yet to be ascertained high level of gross of immorality.
His presence at the meeting on Wednesday is unacceptable in a change environment and should not be welcomed by an administration that is instituting indelible anti corruption reforms. He has no business in a government that is preaching and practicing transparency, intolerance to nepotism, favoritism, advocating forthrightness and morals for the future generation of Nigerians. The government and persons alike must stand by principles and also adhere to their pronouncements. There is no reason hosting Jonathan to perform whatever form of advisory constitutional duties, stands as a mark of hypocrisy on the part of the government and also showcases his continued dance of shame and aloofness in the public parlance even when some public affairs commentators criticize such stance.
Recall that he had refused to speak to the press during his last visit to President Buhari on corruption charges leveled against his aides that are still in court and unresolved. That, I believe should have guided his steps not to perform constitutional functions that should require the involvement of only those that happen to be incorruptible.
In the past, especially in the days of his administration, the meeting was well graced by former heads of governments or statesmen as you would want to call them. However there was a particular former head of state that never set his foot on the forecourt of the presidential villa that is adjacent to the council chambers to attend that forum except on two occasions that it became imperative. You know who! At other times it is reported that he attended the council’s meeting sparingly on belief that he was standing on the principles of integrity and wouldn’t want his ideals tainted by mingling with those who are saddled with the affairs of the country but rose through elections that were allegedly rigged and fraught with so many irregularities. That’s actually what defines a man-never sitting on the fence but taking positions that are popular with his beliefs and are in line with his ideals especially if he has followers.
Penultimate week, a government official asked in an article; ‘how can we forget?’ ‘We cannot forget the maladministration that occurred in recent past in the course of moving the country forward.’ We can’t possibly forget that the Jonathan administration allegedly misappropriated monies meant for the purchase of arms to the tune of $2.1 billion dollars: sharing the money amongst political associates, changing still serviceable vehicles of former head of states, emirs and other senior citizens. Funds meant for securing the citizens in the northeast that is ravaged by insurgents while the Boko haram terrorists pound the people in the region and at other times beating intelligence agencies in their duties to detonate bombs in some urban areas in other parts of the country.
The people would definitely also not forget that Jonathan presided over the regime in which $20 billion dollars allegedly grew legs and ran away from the coffers of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. And the present administration in that vein had assured the people that it was working with foreign intelligence agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigations of the United States of America and others, hoping that it would one day recover the $20 billion dollars from what part of Europe or Americas that it walked or flew to. We as a people are all ears to hear more of these revelations and more that are still being expected from the NNPC as stated by the Information Minister, Lai Mohammed earlier this year.
At a point that people are angry and are in the verge of losing their sanity because of an economic recession, I believe that the person that supposedly brought the country to its knees is disallowed from any gathering that involves the taking of sound decisions for the good of this country. Meanwhile, there are other areas where Jonathan is also being bashed over corruption and under performance recorded during his tenure as a president which I need not mentioned to push up my argument since the elements for the progressive discuss of this subject is already established.
Why then did he appear at the council, stealing shows and all that paparazzi display of the indolent? On a day it is also reported by the media that the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris Kpotun’s appointment was being ratified at the council? And I asked! Wouldn’t his presence at the ratification had been read to; one day influence, taint and affect investigations and decisions being carried out against him. Having been allowed to play high level executive roles in the capacity of the state’s council member? Except there are some truths Jonathan and this administration are hiding from the public, I felt it should have been better a precedence on instilling a level of credibility in the fight against corruption was set by this administration by disallowing Jonathan from attending that meeting or anyone in the future. And if the administration was not supposedly interested at further embarrassing him, he should have atleast voluntarily stopped attending the forum’s programme until he has a clean bill of health from investigations instituted against him. Not such allowing himself into spaces where his skin is bath with raw corruption acid over every of Nigerian headache.
However, in spite of the foregoing and the many troubles of Jonathan, some of the past heads of state and presidents are failing in health over age and may not be able to continually attend such forum as often as before. Former President Shehu Shagari and Head of Interim National Government, Ernest Shonekan fall into such category. Others could have been on international engagements, like in the case of the organizer of the Nigerian Praise, former Head of state, General Yabuku Gowon who actually took permission from President Buhari before jetting out of the country.
In the absence of those three, their spaces could be filled by the ever upright and committed member of the council, Olusegun Obasanjo, the mentally matured, Abdulsallam Abubakar and the unpredictable, Ibrahim Babaginda leaving little or no room for the persons of former President Goodluck Jonathan but like the powerful trojan horse, Shonekan attended the meeting; fit and fiddle while, controversial Obasanjo happened to have been absent from the forum.
A reason it becomes immoral for Jonathan to perform duties at the council in this dispensation having been labelled an administrator of criminals just waiting to be shame by the prosecutors.
This led to my verdict, which is the need for Jonathan to give himself a moral break from the council’s activities for now.
Twitter @MOkpogode. [myad]