The African Continental Free Trade Agreement is probably the most historic, epoch-making development since the establishment of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which later became the African Union (AU) in 2002. It is also probably the biggest trade agreement since the establishment of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), and a concrete, provable culmination of the goals of African Renaissance and Afro-optimism. It should be noted that Nigeria was part of this process from the very beginning.
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This was disclosed on Wednesday, a day after President Muhammadu Buhari, through the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, ordered all heads of Ministries, Departments and Agencies to defend their budgets before the end of this week.
With that effect, Nigerians fell for the lure of the centre. That lure gifted us with the system of leadership where governors do not see themselves as answerable to the people, but to Buhari. It was such that even Buhari’s body language became an understandable summon to belong with the centre, and the All Progressives Congress, for developmental benefits.
The statement said further: “President Buhari joins the United Bank of Africa, the Tony Elumelu Foundation, the Elumelu family and all professional colleagues of the economist, consummate banker and successful entrepreneur, whose pacesetting antecedents continue to inspire both the young and old on the power of ideas, big dreams and hard work.
Osinbajo had on Monday levelled the allegation against Jonathan, who lost the 2015 presidential election to President Muhammadu Buhari, at the seventh Quarterly Business Forum at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The party said the report however vindicated its stand that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Presidency and the All Progressives Congress must be held responsible for the Dapchi abduction and several other atrocities committed by insurgents against citizens, particularly in the northern part of the country.
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The Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, made the plea during the screening of two nominees for Deputy Governorship positions of the Central Bank of Nigeria and for other members of the apex bank’s Monitoring Policy Committee by the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions.
“A directive for the withdrawal of all police officers deployed to VIPs, political and public office holders, with immediate effect, is hereby given,” he said.
The PDP in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Monday said the President already knows he has failed, adding that such accounts to why he is no longer confident whenever it comes to issues of 2019 general elections.
The youths in collaboration with the Coalition of Non Governmental Organisations, Civil Society Organisations told journalists in Minna, Niger State that the action of Buhari has dashed the hopes and aspirations of millions of youths.
The party said the presidency and the APC are not being sincere with the IDPs by providing cover for those who have been frittering away billions of naira donated for the well-being of victims of insurgency.
Buhari had withheld his assent to a bill seeking to amend the act after it was passed by both chambers of the National Assembly.
Some senators who are loyal to the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, had planned to override President Buhari on the bill.
The Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, Muhammad Abubakar, on Wednesday disclosed to newsmen that the operatives would be deployed for adequate security for the presidential visit.
The advisory stated: “When he arrives, Tillerson will become the highest ranking official in the Trump Administration to visit Nigeria.
The President has also granted a grace period of 90 days to all manufacturers before the commencement of the new excise duty regime.
Relying on the Senate rules, Melaye urged the Senate to revisit the bill with a view to veto the president if he failed to rescind his rejection of the bill.
The group said it will therefore mobilise 20 other local and international NGOs to embark on a tour of Sambisa Forest, the North East and other parts of the country to ascertain the level of success in the counter-insurgency war, as well as troops’ responsiveness to emergency and the current state of affairs of the various operations being carried out by the military.
Izam Azi, Head of Service, announced this on Tuesday in Jos, after an emergency State Executive Council meeting.