To this end, CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele was advised to make new naira notes available or re-circulate the deposited old naira notes to ease the suffering of Nigerians.
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The meeting, which is going to be discussing primarily the general elections, is also being briefed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu.
Amosun, briefing the State House Correspondents after the council’s meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, expressed the hope that the amount would enhance the Federal Government’s diversification programmes
Jonathan spoke against the backdrop of the crisis in the South East involving the Nigerian Army and the Indigenous People of Biafra, led by Nnamdi Kanu
Governor Akinwumi Ambode of Lagos State made this known in Abuja on Wednesday while briefing State House correspondents
The Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, disclosed the appointment of the new INEC chairman and other principal officers of the electoral body to newsmen after the Council of State meeting
This was contained in a communiqué signed by Governor Rochas Okorocha, the Chairman of the forum and governor of Imo State
The statement said further that upholding the February 14, 2015 date and other scheduled dates for the election confirms the sacrosanct nature of those dates as well as the May 29, 2015 handover date
The Council said since the Independent National Electoral Commission had expressed readiness for the conduct of the election, there was no need postponing it
The APC in a statement by its Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, at a press conference in Abuja, said plans had been concluded by the President Goodluck Jonathan-led Presidency to use Thursday’s Council of State meeting to secure the approval of members of the Council for the postponement of the elections
Abba was appointed in acting capacity after the retirement of Mohammed Dikko Abubakar
The meeting was convened by President Goodluck Jonathan to brief members made up of former Heads of State and the 36 state governors on the security situation in the country
Ajimobi was sited at the meeting of the leadership of the All Progressives Congress with its National Assembly lawmakers on Tuesday morning
If the scale and intensity of the public condemnation of this pardon, at home and abroad is anything to go by, the silliness of this decision can only compare in political terms to the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa by the late General Sani Abacha regime
However, a few, blind to the moral odium inherent in the pardon of Alamieyeseigha, may argue that Jonathan acted within the powers vested in him in Section 175 (1) (2) of the Constitution and cite past beneficiaries, including Obafemi Awolowo and Odumegwu Ojukwu, as credible references. These claims ring hollow
Our source said a former Chief of General Staff, Oladipupo Diya, was initially on the list but that the list has now been changed. It is not clear whether Mr. Diya’s name will return before the meeting begins