To me the (YLPI) summit communique of June 29, 2017 should be taken as a template at this rally: there is little or nothing to add to it
Browsing: Restructuring
The chairperson made the remark at the closing ceremony of the 2017 NIM North West Summit in Sokoto on Friday.
The summit which attracted economic experts, industrialists and manufacturers as well as some state governors across the country was organised to attract investors in various fields to boost the state’s economy.
It is important that we all understand what we are talking about and the high stakes involved. There are too many mushroom organizations and seeming self determination groups that are all shouting on top of their voices talking about RESTRUCTURING.
Yet, I cannot proceed with my short commentary without due and specific commendation of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) who had considered me worthy of being accorded a space, as Guest Speaker, on the occasion of its first Annual Conference which also coincide with the occasion for the election of new executives’ to speak on critical national issues, especially as they relate to online publishing and the social media.
Afenifere said it would have allowed Osinbajo just take back his words as a politician, but for the disingenuous attempt made in the process of denial to cast one of its leading lights, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, in bad light
A statement by Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, on Tuesday said at no time did the Acting President say that those asking for restructuring were political jobbers looking for appointments.
Speaking at the 20th Wole Soyinka Annual Lecture, with the theme: “Nigerian State in the Aftermath of the Centenary: Prospect For its Indivisibility,” held in Benin City, Obaseki, who was the chairman of the occasion, said Nigeria’s unity was non-negotiable and maintained that it was possible to make Nigeria great and prosperous again
A communiqué issued after a two-day meeting of the governors in Kaduna on Friday said Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State would serve as Chairman of the committee, with the Deputy Governor of Plateau as Secretary.
In a statement issued by the group after its emergency meeting in Lagos on Thursday, the group said any attempt to circumvent the wishes of the people as contained in the report of the 2014 Constitutional Conference by any guise will fail.
And, since the days the military twisted the country’s federal structure by making the state governments weaker and creating a stronger and domineering central government, agitations have been persistent over the decades about the lopsided nature of the federal arrangement in Nigeria. While some label their agitations on the recourse to true federalism, others call it restructuring and the only difference between the two is merely in nomenclature as true federalism and restructuring essentially talk of the need to restore more strength to the state governments. Indeed, the divergence of opinion between the pro and anti-restructuring elements have remained the distinguishing parameter in the ideological leaning of politicians in Nigeria. The pro-restructuring element are called the progressives and the elements who believe that the current order of lopsidedness should be sustained are known as the conservatives.
In a statement released by his media office in Abuja, the Waziri of Adamawa decried the lost opportunity to honour one of the party’s election promises to bring about change by shifting power closer to the people in the remotest regions of Nigeria.
Buzzwords and mantras serve the same function in Nigeria – they are statements or slogans repeated frequently enough that they begin to sound like established facts or self-evident truths
The committee was constituted by the party’s National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, and made public by its National Publicity Secretary, Malam Bolaji Abdullhi, on July 19, 2017.
Kukuri said: “Corruption remains Nigeria’s most dreaded enemy, if we as a people can collectively fight this scourge, our country will be a better place without cries of marginalisation and calls for restructuring.
I am talking of the privileged few, the men and women who have stood between us and the actualization of our Confederation. These are men and women who have stood stoutly in the way of RESTRUCTURE. And it is not because they wanted a total return to Pre-Amalgamation which was/is the demand of the G9, the national Umbrella body of all Self Determination groups in the Lugardian Contraption called Nigeria. To them a return to 1914 was a tall order
Osinbajo made the disclosure in Abuja at the presentation and launch of a book titled: “Nigeria: The Restructuring Controversy.”
The Chairman of the South East Governors’ Forum, Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State, announced this in the early hours of Sunday in Enugu, while addressing newsmen on the outcome of an interactive forum of stakeholders.
Briggs said making such move at this time in the life of the nation was too late
In a message titled: “I am a Nigerian,” Babangida said the ongoing hate speeches in the country was what led to the country’s Civil War between 1967 and 1970