Akpabio made this known while addressing the plenary in Abuja on Wednesday.
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He made the call while presenting a paper, titled: “Managing Nigeria’s pluralism for peace and National Development.”
Director General of the Agency, Mallam Issa-Onilu, made the clarification in a statement issued on Wednesday.
To him, the old anthem strikes a chord in him and believes (rightly or wrongly) that many Nigerians share his view.
The constitutional lawyer said this in an interview on a Channels Television programme: “Sunrise Daily,” on Thursday.
Issa-Onilu said the presentation of the official version became necessary, because of wrong version being circulated on the social media.
The Director-General of the Agency, Malam Lanre Issa-Onilu gave the assurance in a statement by the agency’s Deputy Director of press, Paul Odenyi on Tuesday in Abuja.
This is precisely the diversionary tactic that has been adopted by the Tinubu administration by making the reversion to Nigeria’s old National Anthem the big issue of the day as the administration marked its one year in office.
Does it mean the labours of our heroes past have been in vain? Are we no longer able to serve with heart and might?
The response of the former Minister of Education in Nigeria followed a comment by an X user: @OlorogunErnest.
A final assent to the passage of the bill will bring about a shift from the now-recognised, “Arise O Compatriots.”
The bill, which speedily passed first and second readings on Thursday, now awaits assent into law by President Bola Tinubu.
The bill, which was sponsored by the Leader of the House, Julius Ihonvbere, was passed for second and third reading on the floor of the House during plenary in Abuja.
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Ajuri Ngelale, sent out a state house press release
The Head of Directorate of the group, Chika Edoziem, revealed this on Monday in an address to its people worldwide.
The report, which also called the Lekki Tollgate shootings of October 20, 2020 “a massacre,” was an incriminating indictment of heightening extrajudicial killings and unprofessionalism by Nigerian law enforcement agents
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the IGP arrived the Command at about 1:40p.m. and was only able to take the National Anthem before the downpour started.
Busari-Akinnadeju restated in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Friday that Dr Omoigui, John Ilechukwu, Eme Etim Akpan, B.A Ogunnaike and P.O Aderibigbe; as well as the late Pa Benedict E. Odiase composed the lyrics of the present Nigerian National Anthem.
The clergyman made the call while delivering an address at the two-day retreat organised by the Southern Senators’ Forum in Calabar, Cross River State on Saturday.
Trump praised NASCAR race car drivers for not following a move in the NFL to kneel out of protest while playing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the start of the game, and dismissed criticism that his remarks were racially tinged.