The immediate past Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari has confessed that leading Nigeria is one of the hardest in the world.
In a Sallah message to Muslims on Eid-el-Kabir, Buhari said: “leading a country like Nigeria is one of the hardest challenges in life.”
He appealed to Nigerians to therefore, fully support the Tinubu Administration to succeed.
“Leadership is a challenging task that demands the sacrifices and support of the citizens.”
The message was issued by his special assistant on media and publicity, Malan Garba Shehu, wishing Nigerian Muslims who are currently performing pilgrimage in Makkah, Hajj Mabrur and safe return home.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu returned to Nigeria today, June 27 after his first official foreign trip to Paris, France.
He had traveled to Paris to attend the summit on ”A New Global Financing Pact” and had also made a brief private visit to London, United Kingdom.
On his arrival at the presidential wing of the Murtala Muhammad International Airport today, June 27, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State; Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila; Acting Inspector-General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun; National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, Senators and Representatives from Lagos State, as well as party officials were on hand to receive him.
Dele Alake, Special Adviser to the President on Special Duties and Communications Strategy, confirmed that President Tinubu will join fellow Muslim faithful for the Eid prayers at the Obalende Eid Prayer Ground, located at Dodan Barracks, the former seat of the government.
The President, on his arrival, expressed profound gratitude to Nigerians for the overwhelming reception accorded him.
He conveyed his best wishes to all Nigerians during the Eid-el-Kabir celebrations.
The Commissioner of Police in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Garba Haruna has assured Abuja residents of adequate security measures for a hitch free and peaceful Sallah celebrations, starting tomorrow, June 28.
Speaking shortly after the FCT Security Committee Meeting today, June 27, chaired by the FCTA Permanent Secretary, Olusade Adesola, the Commissioner of Police advised residents to go about their businesses during the Sallah celebrations without fear of any breakdown of law and order.
“Arrangements have been concluded for the FCT residents to have a peaceful Sallah celebration. Our officers have been put on alert.
“Deployments have been done right from this evening preceding Sallah tomorrow.
“All the praying grounds, the DPO Area Commanders have been alerted. The areas will be covered. The EODs will scan and screen the areas that people are supposed to gather.
“The message I have for residents of the FCT is we have given them the assurance, they are safe and secure.
“They should move about their lawful businesses. Those who expect to go to praying ground should go and have their worship.
“We are there to support them and to secure them, there will be no problem.”
The security meeting was attended by heads of various military and para-military formations in the FCT, religious and traditional leaders as well as relevant officers of the FCTA.
An Abuja Magistrate Court sitting in Zuba, has ordered the Kuje Correctional facility to continue holding in its custody, an Abuja-Lagos bound air passenger, Obiajulu Uja, a supporter of the OBIdient movement.
Obiajulu was carried off a Lagos-Abuja flight after he started a lone protest demanding that President Bola Tinubu (then President-Elect) must never be sworn in as President, on May 29.
The OBIdient supporter is said to be mentally unstable, according to a medical report tendered to the Court at previous hearings.
However, Magistrate Abdulazeez Ismail Muhammad, the trial judge, at the hearing on the matter today, June 27, referred him back to the medical facility at Kuje Correctional facility, for further urgent medical treatment for a period of two months.
After listening to submissions of the prosecutor and defence counsels on bail application as well as the examination of the medical report which presupposed that the defendant is suffering from mental disorder, the magistrate noted that the defendant is of unsound mind and consequently is not fit for trial.
According to Magistrate Abdulazeez, since only a sane person could stand trial, it would be unsafe for the court to deliver it ruling on the bail application at that stage.
The magistrate said: “Having equally found that the defendant need urgent further treatment and having released the medical observation report is not too conclusive on the peculiar mental challenge of the defendant and in the interest of justice the appropriate thing for the court to do is to further subject the defendant to further medical care at the expense of the federal government.
“Thus, I hereby refer the defendant back to the medical facility at Kuje Correctional Center for further urgent medical treatment for a period of two months at the expense of federal government of Nigeria pursuant to the provision of Section 278(4).
“The control of the corrections (medicals) is at liberty to engage experts from other medical facilities within the FCT.
“However, if the mental soundness of the defendant appropriates during this period and before the expiration of the period, the medical officer shall file a report forthwith to enable the court proceed with trial including delivering its ruling on the the defendant’s bail application.”
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has assured Nigerians that less than a month in the saddle, he and his team have been able to remove all the Impediments to economic growth of the country.
“At the moment, our country is going through some challenges, especially with our struggling economy and simmering security challenges.
“While I acknowledge all of these, I want to assure you that they are not insurmountable. I am working day and night with my team, fleshing out solutions.
“We have started with the decisions taken so far, to reform our economy and remove all impediments to growth.”
In his Sallah message today, June 27, to Muslims in the country, President Tinubu said that as the nation embraces the present challenges, “we must face the future with vigour and Renewed Hope with the confidence that our tomorrow shall be better and brighter.”
The President called on the citizens to embrace the sense sacrifice as exemplified by Prophet Ibrahim who demonstrated a greater sense of duty ever recorded in history.
He recalled Prophet Ibrahim’s offering his only son Ismail as sacrifice to Allah, saying that the best way “by which we can demonstrate this example is in how we conduct ourselves in relation to our fellow citizens and in our duties to our beloved country. “We must imbibe and manifest those values inherent in Prophet Ibrahim’s life, namely; complete devotion to Allah, tolerance, patience, perseverance, selflessness, love and compassion.
“This season, let us endeavour to multiply good deeds with our kindness to our fellow Muslims and others by helping and supporting the weak and vulnerable in our communities. By so doing, we showcase the values and virtues of our faith.”
In the Sallah message which he personally signed, President Tinubu, called on Nigerians to immerse themselves in the joy of this moment and celebrate, and that they should remember those who may not be as fortunate like them.
“Coming as the end of religious activities spanning the first ten days of the Islamic Month of Dhul Hijjah, Eid-el-Kabir enjoins us as Muslims to show mercy and compassion to our fellow humans.
“Eid-el-Kabir is a festival of sacrifice and total obedience to Allah as exemplified in the exceptional action of Prophet Ibrahim.”
The new National Security Adviser (NSA), Malan Nuhu Ribadu was at the Murtala Muhammad International Airport today June 27 to welcome President Bola Ahmed Tinubu from official overseas trips and to thank him for appointing him NSA.
The Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Abubakar Abdulrasheed, has announced his resignation from the Commission.
Abdulrasheed personally announced his resignation yesterday, June 26, at the Commission’s headquarters while approving the issuance of a provisional license to Kogi State University, Kabba, Kogi State.
He described the new university as his last baby in the Commission, as he has granted approvals to numerous universities in the country during his seven-year administration.
Abdulrasheed however, did not state the reasons for his resignation.
The State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has reportedly ordered the State’s Accountant General to stop salaries of 10,800 workers employed by the immediate past Governor of the State, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.
The Accountant-General, Abdulkadir Abdusalam, announced the Governor’s directive on yesterday, June 26 while addressing journalists in Kano.
Abdusalam said that the Governor ordered his office to remove the affected workers from the State’s payroll.
He said that his office would carry out an investigation to find out the genuineness of their engagement and procedures so as to remove those illegally recruited.
Concerning local government workers in the state, Abdusalam said that those who were converted to state workers by the former administration would continue receiving their salaries.
He said that it would be based on local government levels, asking them to continue working in their new state’s MDAs until the investigation is concluded.
Recall that the new administration had accused former Governor Ganduje of illegally employing over 10,000 workers when it was about leaving office.
President Bola Tinubu on Monday approved the renaming of some Nigerian Airports across the country.
This was contained in a memo signed by the Director, Airport Operations, Olatunji Joke R (Mrs.) and made available on the Twitter handle yesterday, June 26.
She asked all Head of Directors Operations of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria to take note and reflect it in their memos and letters.
According to the memo, President Tinubu renamed the Federal Airports in favour of some prominent Nigerians, like the immediate past president, Muhammad Buhari, late General Tunde Idiagbon, Chuba Okadigbo, Oba Akenzua 11, among others.
The memo, with reference number, FMA/T4464/7090/178/647 and dated 1 June, 2023, was issued from the office of the Federal Ministry of Aviation, on the naming of some federal airports after notable Nigerians.
Here are the names of the renamed Airports by the President as part of reforms of the Aviation sector.
Malam Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant on media and publicity to the former President, Muhammadu Buhari has opened up on why the Buhari government did not outrightly remove fuel subsidy shortly before the last general elections in the country.
Speaking to newsmen today, June 26, in a chat, Garba Shehu stressed the need for people to be politically honest.
“The Buhari administration, in its last days, could not have gone the whole way (to remove the subsidy) because the APC had an election to win. And that would have been the case with any political party that was seeking election for another term with a new principal as its head.
“Poll after polls showed that the party would have been thrown out of office if the decision as envisaged by the new Petroleum Industry Act was made.”
The spokesman to the former President said that with the election now behind us, “a capable leader, as we now have in place, is best positioned to move forward.
“We have nothing but confidence that the new administration will carry the nation and all its constituents into a stable future in the aftermath of these major economic and financial decisions.
“As they say, there are times when you have to lose in order to win.”
Garba Shehu said that Nigerians might have forgotten too soon that when Buhari came to power in 2015, he met subsidies on fertiliser and other things.
“The massive electricity subsidy; the fraudulent fertilizer subsidy, Hajj/Christian Pilgrim subsidies – remember them?
“The diesel subsidy. The aviation fuel subsidy. LPFO, kerosene, cooking gas and the other subsidy policies we found in place, and put them firmly on the ground. Remember them?
“For those with short memories, many of those subsides were all in place when president Buhari was elected to office in 2015: all those in place were gone by May 2023 – including the annual fertilizer subsidy that weighed 60-100 billion Naira (that’s trillion naira in about 10 years – yes you read that right) heavy on the federal budget each year.
“Buhari didn’t remove the petrol subsidy – but in vitally important stages, he removed every other budget-busting, egregious, economic-growth-crushing subsidy along the way.”
He pleaded that the administration of Buhari would not want to distract the current government of Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima from the onerous tasks facing them and the nation.
“Neither is it our wish to take the spotlight away from them in any way.
“In terms of the timings of the decisions to remove fuel subsidy and unify the currency, the Tinubu/Shettima administration has done overwhelmingly well.
“Even more importantly, they have been most dexterous in managing the aftermath of the decisions by successfully avoiding any crisis.
“To this extent, our wish and prayers are that fellow countrymen will continue to support the new leadership in these very laudable decisions and, in particular, for the Labour leadership and civil society to work with them to ensure that the palliative efforts as promised are successfully implemented.”
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Malam Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant on media and publicity to the former President, Muhammadu Buhari has opened up on why the Buhari government did not outrightly remove fuel subsidy shortly before the last general elections in the country.
