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Tinubu breaks fast with Ministers, Service Chiefs, heads of MDAs
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Tuesday hosted members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC), Service Chiefs and Heads of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to Ramadan Iftar at the State House, Abuja.
Many of the cabinet members assembled inside the New Banquet Hall of the State House to break fast with the President.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu hosts members of the Federal Executive Council, Service Chiefs and the Head of Ministries, Departments and Agencies to the 2024 Ramadan Iftar, at the State House pic.twitter.com/LerOo1trS3
This would be the second high-level engagement the president will be having with senior public officials since the start of Ramadan.
Recall that on Thursday, March 14, President Tinubu hosted Governors from the 36 states of the federation for a Ramadan Iftar (breaking of fast).
Tinubu used the opportunity to appeal to all state governors to set aside their political differences and focus on governance.
He also said the country is no longer in the state he met it since assuming office nine months ago, assuring Nigerians that the “tunnel is not as dark as when we started”.
“Since we recognise the need to build our nation together, the time for politics is over. It is now time for governance,” Tinubu said.
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I regret obtaining NDA form for Lagbaja, says family head
The head of the late Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. General Taoreed Lagbaja’s family, Pa Tajudeen Lagbaja, has expressed regret obtaining Nigerian Defence Academic (NDA) form for the deceased.
Pa Tajudeen, the younger brother of the late COAS’s father, stated that he would not have bought the form had he known it would lead to his death.
Some family members also alleged that Lt. General Lagbaja may have been killed through diabolical means due to a land dispute in his hometown.
According to TheNation, In 2023 a dispute arose in Ilobu, the headquarters of Irepodun Local Government Area in Osun State, when representatives of the Nigerian Army planned to establish a hospital in the community.
Pa Tajudeen told TheNation that he initially obtained the NDA form for the late Lieutenant General.
“Everyone who is born must die. We give glory to God. The year that I obtained NDA form for him, if I had known that he would die before me, I would not have done so. I regret obtaining the form for him. But it is destiny.
“The death that killed Taoreed Lagbaja ought to take me. I took him as one of my children. We are greatly bereaved, we are sad. He constructed a borehole in his father’s compound and other places in the community.
“We can never forget him, his death is so shocking to us. I have accepted the fate, all the promises he made to me have hit a brick wall. He always gave us hope in the family, despite the sorrow, I give thanks to God,” the family head said.
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Tinubu Reappoints Prof Abdullahi Mustapha As DG Of Biotechnology Agency NBRDA
President Bola Tinubu has reappointed Prof. Abdullahi Mustapha as the Director-General of the National Biotechnology Research and Development Agency (NBRDA).
Prof. Abdullahi is expected to serve another second term of five years as the head of the research agency.
His appointment was announced in a press statement issued by the Press Secretary to the NBRDA Director-General, Toyin Omozuwa, in Abuja on Saturday.
According to the statement, Mustapha’s reappointment was conveyed in a letter signed by the Secretary to the
Government, George Akume.
“Mustapha’s second term is effective from 31st October 2024 and is in line with the provisions of Sections 10 (1) and (3) of the National Biotechnology Development Agency (Establishment) Act, 2022,” the statement said.
Omozuwa stated that industry experts regard the reappointment as an expression of Tinubu’s confidence in Mustapha’s capability to drive innovation towards achieving food security.
He added that the reappointment would allow the Director-General to complete his work in enhancing pharmaceutical production, as well as positioning Nigeria at the forefront of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Mustapha is a Professor of Bioinorganic Chemistry and hails from Dambatta Local Government Area of Kano State.
The National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) is an agency established in 2001 under the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology, that implements policies, explores resources, conducts research, promotes, coordinates and develops biotechnology in Nigeria.
The NABDA also controls and supervises the introduction of genetically modified organisms into Nigeria.
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