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President Tinubu Makes Fresh Appointment
President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Barrister Farida Tukur Sada as his Special Assistant on Delivery and Coordination.
The appointment was confirmed in a statement on Thursday issued by the presidency.
President Tinubu also approved the appointment of Zeni Christine St. John as Special Assistant to the President on Delivery and Coordination.
Aishatu Kabir was also named as the special assistant to the President on delivery and coordination.
The trio will work under the office of the special adviser on policy and coordination/head central delivery coordination unit, Hadiza Bala Usman.
Meanwhile, an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, Uche Nwosu, has urged President Bola Tinubu to introduce a reward system aimed at promoting excellence among Nigerian ministers.
Nwosu also advised that non-performing ministers should be sacked.
He stated this while addressing newsmen in Abuja.
He noted that while it is still early to assess the administration, which will clock one year by May 29, 2024, visible indices show that Tinubu is on the right track.
The APC chieftain specifically canvassed national honours for ministers that perform very well.
According to him, “Let me stress that the President Tinubu administration is just getting to one year in office. When you look at the ministers that were appointed last year, people will be asking, ‘How many of them have done well?
“But we should also be looking at a reward system whereby ministers that perform well should be rewarded.
“Infact if I am Mr President, any minister that has performed wonderfully well should be given a national honour.
“I will say that Mr President has done well and this can be seen in various areas like FCT where we have seen infrastructural development, in the finance sector where the Naira is appreciating, in the solid minerals sector where efforts are being made to generate revenue through mineral deposits. Also, some of the refineries are about to start production.”
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Just in: Reps confirm Oluyede Chief of Army Staff
The House of Representatives on Thursday has confirmed Lit-Gen. Olufemi Oluyede as the substantive Chief of Army Staff.
This followed his screening on Wednesday by the Joint Committees on Defence and Army.
The committee Chairman, Babajimi Benson submitted the report during plenary and urged the House to confirm Oluyede; a prayer granted at the session presided over by the Deputy Speaker, Benjamin Kalu.
Details later…
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Just in: Former Liberian warlord Prince Johnson dies at 72
Ex- Liberian warlord Prince Johnson, a key player in the 1989-2003 back-to-back civil wars, died Thursday aged 72, officials from his party and the Senate revealed.
Johnson, who was seen sipping beer in a video as fighters loyal to him tortured then-president Samuel Doe to death in 1990, was an influential senator.
Senator Johnson was the longest-serving senator,” said Siaffa Jallah, deputy director of press at the Senate.
“Yes, we lost him this morning. He passed away at Hope for Women (health centre)”, Wilfred Bangura, a senior official in Prince Johnson’s Movement for Democracy and Reconstruction party, told AFP.
The death of Doe was an early bloody episode that would plunge Liberia into two civil wars which killed some 250,000 people and ravaged the economy.
Prince Johnson, who hailed from the northern region of Nimba, later became a preacher in an evangelical church where he enjoyed wide popularity.
He was also a leading opponent of the creation of a tribunal that would try civil war-related crimes.
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