Buhari met them in his office at the State House, Abuja.

Others who were present were Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele; the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa; as well as the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Lucky Irabor, in attendance.

Although, none of the participants of the meeting agreed to talk with reporters but it is believed that it was organised to discuss the cash swap policy which has been a major concern in the country.

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Emefiele made this known during the apex bank’s Monetary Policy Committee monthly meeting in Abuja.

According to Emefiele, the CBN won’t shift its deadline for all old notes to be returned to commercial banks in exchange for newly designed ones.

The CBN MPC also hiked monetary policy to 16.5% from 15.5% while all other parameters remained unchanged.

Emefiele had on October 26, 2022, said the apex bank will issue redesigned N200, N500, and N1,000 notes, effective December 15, 2022, while the new and existing currencies will remain legal tender and circulate together until January 31, 2023.

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Aduda threatened that the Senate will commence an impeachment notice if President Muhammadu Buhari fails to address the issue of insecurity in six weeks.

Aduda said: “At our closed door meeting, we agreed that we will discuss the issue of security at plenary and then ask the president on what to do.

“We agreed that if he didn’t execute them, we will commence an impeachment notice to President Muhammadu Buhari.”

Meanwhile, the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan rejected the move.

Ahmad Lawan said: “That notice falls short of what the rule book says. You didn’t cite any part of our rules and I can’t tolerate it. You didn’t consult me. So, I can’t allow it.”

Thereafter, Aduda led a walkout.

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This appointment follows the demise of the former Statistician-General of the Federation, Dr. Simon Harry, on 13th April 2022.

Semiu Adeniran is a professional statistician of repute with a bias toward Demography and Social Statistics. He has over three decades of statistical hands-on experience garnered from various local and international institutions.

Until his appointment, Semiu was the Director of Demographic and Household Statistics at the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

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Presidential Spokesman, Femi Adesina announced this development in a statement on Wednesday, Daily Dates Nigeria reports.

NNPC Ltd Chairman of the Board Senator Margret Chuba Okadigbo (South East), Mele Kolo Kyari, Chief Executive Officer, and Umar I. Ajiya, Chief Financial Officer.

Other Board Members are; Dr. Tajudeen Umar (North East), Mrs. Lami O. Ahmed (North Central), Mallam Mohammed Lawal (North West), Engr. Henry Obih (South East), Barrister Constance Harry Marshal (South-South), and Chief Pius Akinyelure(South West).

Adesina disclosed that the appointments take effect from the date of the incorporation of the NNPC Limited.

Also appointed are Executive Commissioners of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission. They are: Dr Nuhu Habib (Kano), Executive Commissioner, Development and Production, Dr Kelechi Onyekachi Ofoegbu (Imo), Executive Commissioner, Economic Regulations and Strategic Planning, Capt. Tonlagha Roland John (Delta), Executive Commissioner, Health, Safety, Environment and Community, and Jide Adeola (Kogi), Executive Commissioner, Corporate Services and Administration.

Earlier appointed are the Board Chairman, CEO, Executive Commissioner, Exploration and Acreage Management, and Executive Commissioner, Finance and Accounts. New appointees at the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority are Francis Alabo Ogaree (Rivers), Executive Director, Hydrocarbon Processing, Mustapha Lamorde (Adamawa), Executive Director, Health, Safety, Environment and Community, Mansur Kuliya (Kano), Executive Director, Midstream and Downstream Gas Infrastructure Fund, Bashir Sadiq (Sokoto), Executive Director, Corporate Services and Administration, and Dr Zainab Gobir (Kwara), Executive Director, Economic Regulations and Strategic Planning.

They join the Board Chairman, Executive Director, Downstream Systems, Storage and Retailing Infrastructure, the CEO, and Executive Director, Finance and Accounts, who had earlier been appointed. For Midstream and Downstream Infrastructure Fund, new Council Members are; Mr Effiong Abia (Akwa Ibom), Bobboi Ahmed (Adamawa), and Engr. Abdullahi Bukar (Katsina).

It will be recalled that President Buhari had last September written the Senate on the administrative structure amendments to the Petroleum Industry Act, which included the appointment of Non-Executive Board Members, removal of the Ministries of Petroleum and Finance from the Board of the two new institutions, and appointment of Executive Directors.

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FEC wishes the President many more years of good health in order to be able to provide exemplary and quality leadership for the country while building a sustainable future for the teeming youth.

It prays to God to grant him wisdom in handling affairs of the nation particularly at this time and enjoins Nigerians to give their unalloyed support to the government as it strives to bequeath an enduring legacy to the future generations.

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Daily Dates Nigeria recalls that on June 4, the federal government announced the indefinite suspension of Twitter’s operation in Nigeria following the tweets made by President Muhammadu Buhari. The President had threatened to treat members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in the language they understand.

The suspension was, however, attributed to “the persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence”.

While the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed was responding to questions on the issue on Wednesday, he disclosed that progress has been made in resolving the impasse following a series of meetings.

Mohammed noted that most of the conditions given to the platform have been accepted.

The minister while disclosing that Twitter has also agreed to set up an office in Nigeria, added that the company maintained that the earliest it can happen is 2022.

He also expressed confidence that everything will be sorted out with Twitter within a few days or weeks while acknowledging the anxiety that has been shown by Nigerians.

According to him, the Federal Government’s committee negotiating with the microblogging site will meet to make recommendations soon.

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Daily Dates Nigeria reports that President Buhari had earlier scheduled his journey for today, Friday, 25 May 2021.

Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, through a statement issued on Friday, announced the postponement of the President’s trip.

Buhari’s aide said a new date will be announced in due course.

Buhari had on 16 April 2021 returned to Abuja from the trip to London where he met his doctors.

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The government caterwauled over how the Jonathan administration magicked the public treasury into exclusive pockets. The biggest news headline at the time was — STOLEN $2.1 BILLION ARMS FUND.

Sambo Dasuki, former national security adviser (NSA), was the first casualty of the Buhari anti-corruption blitz. I witnessed how security operatives converged on his residence in July 2015; the intrigues, and his subsequent arrest.

The government accused him of being the wheel from where corruption in the Jonathan administration gyrated. His office was accused of diverting $2.1 billion earmarked for arms purchase.

I followed Dasuki’s case at the court when the government still fancied having him tried judicially. I was present at all the sittings – I witnessed the hooplas and the hooties. The government soon afterwards jettisoned the law and went on vengeful rampage. It incarcerated Dasuki illegally, denying him the right to defend himself in court. And days segued into months and months into years – they held him.

It became clear that the administration’s war was not against corruption but against perceived adversaries. It also became obvious that the anti-corruption crusade was only to excite Nigerians and to deflect interrogation from the government’s lachrymal failings. In the case of Dasuki, who now appears to be over the hump, it is difficult to convince anyone that his incarceration was not a pursuit of vengeance. Subsequent events have ratified this position.

Also, as those accused of partaking in the general sleaze under Jonathan were put in the dock, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) under Ibrahim Magu, dispatched its utilities to securing conviction in the media instead of the court. The arraignment of ex-public officers was well noised to whet the appetite of Nigerians who were hungry to see those who stole from them chalk up time and penitence in jail. But it ended there – just noise. Some of the ex-military officers whom the anti-graft agency charged for allegedly tucking into the $2.1 billion arms ‘scam’ are free men today, and with their cases sputtering in court.

The so-called recovered loot is now reported re-looted by the same agency hunting looters of the $2.1 billion and other sums. On Thursday night, the offices of the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) were vandalised after the presidential panel probing Magu requested the transaction history of a Kaduna-based bureau de change (BDC). The panel was told that the BDC, which allegedly has links to the suspended acting chairman of the EFCC, has recently transacted businesses worth over N500 billion in different currencies — N336 billion, $435 million and €14 million, according to TheCable. Painful but not surprising.

We exist in a Dickensian society. Those entrusted with securing citizens against public theft are themselves crooks in Messianic raiment. The watchdogs are themselves bloodhounds and vampires.

Let me also add: Where is Babachir Lawal? Yes. The case of the former secretary to the government of the federation (SGF) has been sputtering in court this despite his indictment by the government he served.

Also, I recall there is a petition against Bola Tinubu, national leader of the APC, for alleged money laundering at the EFCC – filed by Concerned Nigerians led by Deji Adeyanju. Tinubu himself admitted transporting cash in bullion vans on the eve of the 2019 election to his house. But the anti-graft agency under Magu did not move a muscle to investigate the allegation.

In fact, when Magu was asked about the petition against Jagaban by a journalist, he snubbed the inquiry, and said ‘’next question, please?’’ And there are other members of the APC and those in the Buhari fraternity who have corruption allegations hanging on their necks, but the EFCC under the suspended acting chairman did not crack up a case against them.

At this point, Nigerians need to ask, what happened to the $2.1 billion arms probe? How much has been recovered? How many persons have been convicted in connection to the sleaze?

They deserve to know.

Fredrick Nwabufo is a writer and journalist.

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STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE

PRESIDENT BUHARI CONDOLES WITH PASTOR ITUA IGHODALO ON LOSS OF WIFE

President @MBuhari expresses shock at the passage of Mrs Ibidun Ituah-Ighodalo, wife of Pastor Ituah Ighodalo of Trinity House, based in Lagos.

— Presidency Nigeria (@NGRPresident) June 15, 2020

In a statement issued over the death of Pastor Ituah Ighodalo via @NGRPresident, said: “Muhammadu Buhari shares the pain and sorrow of the family at the sudden death, and prays God’s comfort for the entire family, friends and members of Trinity House.

“He recalls that Pastor Ighodalo is one person who faithfully prays for the country, and the government, noting that he sent him a personal letter of condolence when his former Chief of Staff, Mallam Abba Kyari, passed away in April.

“Please accept my condolence. May God give you the fortitude to bear the loss, and strengthen you at this trying time,” President Buhari says.

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