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  • Buhari’s invisible hand and body language

    Buhari’s invisible hand and body language

    During his presidency, ex-president Goodluck Jonathan often bristled at any reference to his body language. Former Speaker of the House of Representatives and now Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, had in 2013 suggested that Dr Jonathan’s body language condoned corruption due to his lackadaisical approach to the probe of fraudulent subsidy, pension, and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) transactions. For months, he was harangued by commentators on his body language, and he in turn gave his opponents as much as he got, at one time denouncing his critics as being more corrupt than the people they were alleging corruption against. Conversely, Dr Jonathan’s successor, President Muhammadu Buhari, takes abundant pride in his body language.

    During his recent interaction with the Nigerian community in Iran last week, the president made gloating reference to his body language. Said he: “I believe if you are in touch with home, you would have been told that already there is some improvement in power. We haven’t said anything to them yet. I think they only find it sensible or appropriate to try and improve power delivery.” The president was being truthful. In his first few weeks in office, and given the unusual, positive but coincidental improvements in service delivery of problematic agencies, many commentators began to attribute the instant successes, such as they were, to the effect of the president’s no-nonsense, disciplinarian image or body language. In other words, the public facilely invested the president’s body language with mythical and even magical properties. President Buhari basked in the accolades.

    But many scpetics harboured private suspicion, believing that the laconic president actually implemented a few measures to cause a turnaround in the power and fuel distribution sectors, but only chose to be silent. It is now clear they were all mistaken. The sceptics may think that just as the president seldom responds to critics, partly because of his taciturnity, he also, because of his modesty and reserved nature, seldom applauds or announces himself when his actions yield positive results. This conclusion is also far-fetched. The president has confessed that he did nothing to bring about the improvements noticed in both the power and fuel distribution sectors. In other words, for many months after his ascension, he was lulled into thinking the power and fuel crises he inherited had responded to his mystique.

    Hopefully, he no longer believes that gobbledygook. Nigeria’s energy crisis remains as potent as ever, and as the past two weeks or so have shown, the fuel supply chain works spasmodically. Both problems need scientific measures and diligent attention from the president to resolve on a fairly permanent basis. In fact, the problems will require a lot of hard work and attention. Disturbingly, by acknowledging that he did nothing to bring about the short-lived turnaround experienced in the fuel and power sectors, the president appeared to suggest that at his ascension, he had no programmes and policies to tackle any sector, except perhaps Boko Haram insurgency and corruption. This confession is one more indication that the president is not often measured in his responses or careful in his statements.

    Apart from the worrisome fact that many of his important policy statements have been made abroad, his admission of reliance on body language and the exaggerated consideration of the potency of his mystique may suggest to Nigerians that indeed, the president does not have prepared plans to tackle anything, including rescuing the 219 abducted Chibok girls seized by Boko Haram militants in 2014. Left to him, he had not wanted to constitute a cabinet; but if he must, he saw no reason to be in a hurry. More puzzlingly, he valued the contributions of permanent secretaries above the work of ministers, a group of appointees he dismissed as noisemakers.

    But it does seem President Buhari can learn; and he still has enough time at his disposal to allow experience to teach him and dissipate his delusions. Sooner or later, but perhaps slowly, he will see the value of transcending the intangibles of his image, and the urgency to buckle down to conceive, plan and implement great policies and ideas. It is possible he will come to this realisation soon; but it is not, alas, impossible that he won’t.

     

  • Support Buhari, group tells South -East youths

    Support Buhari, group tells South -East youths

    The Buhari South-East Youth Movement (BSEYM) has appealed to the youths of the South-East zone, irrespective of their political leanings, to support the government of President Muhammadu Buhari in order to bring about massive infrastructural development and favourable government policies to drive Igbo businesses leading to massive socio-economic gains to the highly enterprising South-East zone.

    Rising from a meeting in Enugu, the Director – General of the Organisation, Engr. Nwabueze Onwuneme, enjoined the youths of the South-East zone to disregard the campaign of calumny against the President especially in his fight against corruption by the opposition, stating that “it’s only the guilty that are afraid.”

    Onwuneme maintained that Buhari has the interest of Ndigbo, most especially their youths and has greatly shown strength and capacity in confronting the challenges of the nation citing the war against insurgency, the war on corruption and executive impunity, amongst others.

    Meanwhile, BSEYM has applauded Buhari on his appointment of six Igbo sons as ministers in his cabinet. The group said by this appointment, Buhari has once again demonstrated his love and trust for Ndigbo. Speaking to news men in Umuahia, Onwuneme appealed to Igbos most especially the youths to rally round the president and the ministers in order to bring about positive change to Igboland and Nigeria.

     

  • Association tasks Buhari on health investment

    The National Association of Nigeria Pediatric Nurses, NANPAN, has impressed on President Muhammadu Buhari the need to increase investment in the area of health, especially to tackle cases of infant and maternal mortality.

    The National President of the Association, Comrade Olubunmi Lawal, disclosed at the inauguration ceremony of LUTH branch of the association in Lagos.

    It has been reviewed that about one million infants under age of 5, die annually in Nigeria, and that actually make Nigeria second large contribution to under five infant mortality in the world after India

    She added that the plan of government to increase exclusive breast feeding awareness from its lower ebb of 17 percent to 60 percent by 2019, cannot be a success without a thorough orientation by the pediatric nurses.

    Lawal encouraged government to make emergency survival equipment readily available as emergency will not sound a note of warning before it strikes.

    “More than 60 percent delivery in this country takes place at home.  Many of our pregnant women do not come to the facilities for the delivery and many do not even come for ante-natal.”

    “Exclusive breast feeding in Nigeria is currently about 17 percent, and as a government, we are looking for 60 percent at 2019. We can’t stay at facility alone to get that happened.’’

    “And that is why we want to carry the orientation to the rural communities and ensure that we support our women to enlighten them on pregnancy and to use facilities for delivery’’.

    And that is why we asking the current administration of President Buhari  to pay more attention to the survival of new born and under five.’’

    Echoing the same stance, the LUTH Branch Chairman of the association, Comrade Olubukola Olawuyi, reiterated on the imminent sensitisation of the association in the rural community to make Nigeria free from infant mortality.

    Olawuyi said such sensitisation is necessary to forestall the wrong notions and fallacies among Nigeria nursing mothers, which sometime detriment to the health of these babies.

    “We are not going to limit our services to the hospitals alone. We want to go to field, market places and also go to religion houses to go an educate mothers, because we realise that some of them are not coming to the hospitals.’’

    National Association of Nigeria Pediatric Nurses is a body of trained professional pediatric nurses established in January 2014 to come together and help in reduction of mortality rate in Nigeria.

  • Buhari seeks more Commonwealth support for Nigeria, others on terrorism

    Buhari seeks more Commonwealth support for Nigeria, others on terrorism

    President Muhammadu Buhari  has tabled before the Commonwealth a proposal for the establishment of a Committee to oversee the rendering of greater assistance and support to Nigeria and other member-countries at the receiving end of terrorism.

    He expects the committee to be in place before the next Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, and visit member-countries where terrorist organisations have established a foothold with a view to evolving practical strategies for more meaningful assistance to the affected countries.

    President Buhari spoke   on Friday night at a banquet hosted by Queen Elizabeth II for Heads of State and Government participating in the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Malta.

    While acknowledging the assistance of Britain, France and the United States in the fight against Boko Haram so far, he pleaded for greater resolve by the organization to assist Nigeria  and other developing nations ranks to overcome the challenges of economic development, security, terrorism and corruption.

    He said: “With the improvement of global communications, terrorism has no borders now. What happened recently in France had a profound effect on all of us, but very few countries realize that Nigeria has suffered terrorist casualties of over 10,000 killed in the last six years.

    “Right now, we have over two million internally displaced persons, most of whom are women and children, and most of the children are orphans.”

    He enumerated efforts by Nigeria and other members of the Lake Chad Basin Commission to curb the menace of Boko Haram, saying the present situation was aggravated by the collapse of the Gadhafi regime in Libya.

    “We have agreed to a joint task-force for the elimination of Boko Haram, but it may not be easy, especially after the events in Libya when trained people with weapons moved back to Sahel region from where they were recruited by the former Libyan leader,” he said.

    “Those weapons and expertise in their use are now aggravating the situation in the Sahel and further south.”

    While calling for greater international support for Nigeria and other countries affected by terrorism, President Buhari expressed his administration’s appreciation of the assistance already being received from the Commonwealth, Britain, the Group of Seven Industrialized Nations, France and the United States.

    British Prime Minister David Cameron had earlier in the day announced plans to set up a Commonwealth unit targeting the extremist “scourge.”

    He said that the U.K. would put five million pounds toward the unit that will work with smaller countries struggling to combat terrorism.

    “The fight against extremism is something that affects us all,” he said.

     

  • Terrorism killed 10,000, displaced two million – Buhari

    Terrorism killed 10,000, displaced two million – Buhari

    President Muhammadu Buhari said on Friday night that at least 10,000 people have been killed and over two million Nigerians displaced internally by Boko Haram terrorists in the last six years.

    The President, who spoke at a banquet hosted by Queen Elizabeth II for Heads of State and Government participating in the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Malta, said majority of the internally displaced persons were women and children.

    A statement issued on Saturday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, said Buhari called for the establishment of a Commonwealth Committee to oversee the rendering of greater assistance and support to Nigeria and other member-countries that had been adversely affected by terrorism.

    He expressed hope that the committee would have been established before the next meeting of the organisation.

    According to the statement, the President also expects the committee to visit Commonwealth member-countries where terrorist organisations have established a foothold with a view to evolving practical strategies for more meaningful assistance to the affected countries.

     

  • Buhari shocks ministers with austere package

    Buhari shocks ministers with austere package

    •Cabinet members grumble, say ‘pittance’ can’t pick bills

    Barely three weeks in office, President Muhammadu Buhari has shocked Ministers with poor salaries and austere allowances.

    He has also imposed dos and don’ts on the ministers including travel restrictions.

    Most Ministers were said to be embarrassed by the perks of office accruable to them in office.

    The only leverage the Ministers will enjoy is the privilege of flying in a Business Class on trips.

    These conditions of service for Ministers were contained in a letter  given to them during the week by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Engr. Babachir David Lawal.

    The letter said: “I am pleased to inform you that the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR,  has  appointed  you as  a  Minister in  the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

    “The appointment takes effect from 11th November, 2015 under the following Terms and Conditions of Service as contained in “Certain Political, Public and Judicial Office Holders(Salaries and Allowances, etc) (Amendment ) Act 2008.”

    “I am to add that your tenure terminates at the end of this Administration unless otherwise decided by Mr. President. Please accept my heartiest congratulations and best wishes on your appointment.”

    The SGF’s letter gave the details of the perks which the ministers will enjoy in office as long as they last in the Federal Executive Council (FEC).

    While the substantive minister will earn N2, 026, 400 Annual Basic Salary($8,514.285), Minister of State is to get N1.8million($7,563.025) per annum.

    Other  highlights of the conditions include: Estacode Allowance($900 per diem); Duty Tour Allowance(N35,000); Utilities Allowance(Telephone/ Electricity/ Water)–30% of Annual Basic Salary (N607,920); Domestic Staff Allowance(75% -((N1,519,800) of Annual Basic Salary; Medical Facilities (in accordance with NHIS Policy);  Special Assistant (To be provided in kind); Security (To be provided in kind); Air Travel (By Business Class); Newspaper Allowance (15% of  Annual Basic Salary-N303,960).

    The letter said: “As a Political Office Holder, you must obtain permission from Mr. President before you travel out of Abuja. If the trip is official, Ministers are entitled to a Duty Tour Allowance of N35,000 per diem. However, all private journeys will attract no Allowance.

    “Severance Allowance of 300 %of Annual Basic Salary payable after full tenure of office with government. The allowance will be pro-rated after a minimum of two years tenure.

    It added: “200 % of Annual Basic Salary (N4,052,800) will be paid to you to enable you to acquire accommodation of your choice in line with monetization policy.

    “Furniture  Allowance. 300 %(N6,079,200) of Annual Basic Salary will be paid once in every four years. The allowance will be paid annually at the rate of 75% (N1,519,800) of Annual Basic salary.

    “Motor Vehicle Fuelling Maintenance Allowance. 75% of Annual Basic Salary (N1,519,800) for the maintenance of your vehicle(s) as Government no longer provides chauffeur  driven vehicles to Political Office Holders/Public Officers for house to office running.

    “Annual Leave (30 calendar days for each leave year or calculated on pro-rata basis, with 10% of Annual Basic Salary(N202,640) as leave grant); Personal Assistant Allowance (25% of Annual Basic salary to enable you to employ a Personal Assistant of your choice).”

    Investigation however revealed that some of the ministers were uncomfortable with the salary and allowance package because it might not be able to pick their bills.

    The package has caused rumbles in the cabinet because while Nigerian ministers earn $8, 514.28 Per Annum (N2,026,400),  their counterparts in Ghana are on $50,000 (N11,900,000) and those in South Africa (the highest paying in the continent) were said to be taking home  about $302,521 per annum.

    A reliable source said: “Most ministers have been sad since they received their letters of appointment because the salary and allowance package was a far cry from where they were coming from. We hope that ministers will eventually not steal if they have to serve this nation on hungry stomach.

    “We have ministers in this government who left high-net worth job of $10,000 to $20,000 per month, how will they settle their bills? Some ministers have headed corporate. You can imagine a minister managing about $3billion portfolio now getting $8,521 per Annum.

    “Some ministers have children in Ivy League universities where they are paying as much as $40,000 to $60,000 per annum. How will they be able to cope to meet up with their responsibilities?”

    As at press time, it was unclear if the ministers had made representation to the president or not.

    “Curiously, we have some Executive Secretaries, Directors-General and Group Managing Directors of parastatals like NNPC, PPMC, NCC, NDIC, PEF, PPPRA, DPR, NERC, NIGCOMSAT, and others who will be earning more than their ministers. I think the system is distorted somehow.”

    Another source added: “To earn commensurate salaries and allowances, the president can explore foreign donors’ basket for payment of ministers. Or else, it will be difficult to get the best from this team.

    “Alternatively, there might be scientific corruption in Buhari’s cabinet. This is the type of corruption we call ‘chop and clean mouth.’

  • Buhari fights corruption with nostalgia

    Buhari fights corruption with nostalgia

    PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari is considerably besotted with nostalgia. Whenever he speaks with the Nigerian community in the diaspora anytime he travels, he is even more voluble and revelatory. During a visit to South Africa a month after he assumed office, he bemoaned the inevitable limitations age would place on his performance as a 72-year-old president. “I wish I became Head of State when I was a governor,” he grumbled, perhaps to the exasperation of his aides and media managers. “Now at 72, there is a limit to what I can do.” President Buhari was governor of the then North Eastern State when he was a 33-year-old military officer. Now he is president at 72. Last week in Iran, again speaking with the Nigerian community, the president regretted that democratic strictures, especially the rule of law, limited the swiftness with which he would have loved to tackle corruption.

    President Buhari must learn to move on. He must strenuously begin to resist comparing the present with the past, particularly his past, if his present and his presidency are not to be stymied by policy and bureaucratic distortions and anachronisms. The extent to which he can escape his past will, however, be connected with how effectively his handlers and critics can coax him to reassess his extempore speeches and break down and remould his ossified worldview. It is indeed an urgent task for him.

    Proof that he needs to move on to the present is contained nowhere else than in his last interaction with the Nigerian community in Iran. His audiences in Iran and South Africa were reportedly  animated by his presence, and might have been inured to the inconsistencies and inappropriateness of his personal comparisons. But for those who had the luxury of analysing his references and even psychoanalysing the hidden meanings of his messages days after he had delivered them, they would be flummoxed  by the dangerous import of his views, not to say the suggestive messianism that sometimes crept into them.

    In Iran, according to his media aide, Garba Shehu, the president had told his fretting and questioning audience that the need to comply with the due process of the law was responsible for the delay in prosecuting looters. That statement sounded apologetic. But complying with due process should be routine, one of the ennobling essences of democracy and modernisation. It should not be an issue for discussion or reference, let alone be a subject of emotive distress. By suggesting that due process delayed prosecution, the president came across as stigmatising that aspect of the law as an inconvenience, a hindrance in fact. Yet, due process helps to check prosecutorial excesses, tame judicial exhibitionism, and curb the general predilection for lynching and mob tyranny.

    It appears President Buhari is inherently impatient, and for a man who sets great store by his famed slowness and meticulousness since he assumed office in May, he is paradoxically unaccustomed to the beatifying deliberateness of the millstones of justice grinding slowly and grinding fine. In 1984, he had baffled Nigerians by railroading three drug traffickers to the gallows, one or two of whom suffered the corollary of the then Gen Buhari’s application of retroactive justice. The world was astounded, and Nigerians were shocked. Decades later, during his presidential campaign in 2015, the electorate graciously overlooked the misapplication of justice in 1984 and voted for him. The president didn’t see any reason to be contrite, and it seems that even if he had been punished by the electorate’s withheld  votes, he still wouldn’t be penitent. All he said to questions asked on his peremptory application of military justice was that he accepted responsibility.

    It is impossible to return to that freewheeling era when the head of state’s word was law. Things might have been done quicker and, as they used to say in those days, with immediate effect and automatic alacrity. But comparatively, things were not done better. By their brusqueness, the military bastardised the civil service, destabilised the polity and assaulted the people’s freedoms and liberties, and generally ended up weakening institutions and distorting and rending the fabric of civilised society. Had Nigerian heads of state been capable of the reflection and contrition necessary to properly evaluate the past, it is unlikely they would romanticise their fast but often destructive pace of doing things. The past may be the present’s rearview mirror, and may even be necessary for progress, but President Buhari sometimes gives the impression the past teaches far better lessons and signposts the future much more acutely than the present.

    He regards his period as a military governor at the age of 33 as a time of great ebullition, a time of unlimited possibilities, when he was not constrained by age, fear and perhaps the pathologies of age. Conversely, he sees his advanced 72 years of age as a natural and irresistible constraint. It took his spokesman, Femi Adesina, to begin philosophising on the values and blessings of old age, rephrasing the president’s message and redacting his sentences to fit idiomatically into a newer and more ingenious interpretation of age and wisdom, and their symbiotic relationship. Mr Adesina made sense; but what he said had nothing to do with the original message of the president. President Buhari was simple and direct. He wished he had the energy and vibrancy of the past, and could apply both to the present and his presidency. He said nothing about the wisdom that comes with age, nor of the patience and control that frequently ennobles advanced years. His mind wandered along only one tract, of energy and zealotry, a tract that opens a disturbing window into his suspiciously narrow worldview.

    Rather than seem to mourn the constraining properties of due process and rule of law in his battle against corruption, rather than make his regular and depressing references to the past, it is time President Buhari looked optimistically to the future. Many commentators have suggested he should set out the rubrics of Buharinomics. Great. But more importantly, it is time we began to hear from him his original ideas of the modern society, of modern Nigeria in particular, and of how the law scrupulously applied, without abridgement of any sort, can be deployed to build a stable, just and equitable society. His economic team can help him build Buharinomics; but they cannot help him conceive an original and intuitive philosophy of a modern Nigerian society, better than any in Africa, and one of the best in the world.

    But perhaps this column is investing President Buhari with a transcendental assignment far superior to anything he is ever capable of conceiving. Perhaps all he wants is just to arrest corruption or minimise it, knock insecurity into a cocked hat, get the economy on an even keel, and vacate office not as the failure his humiliating overthrow in 1985 presupposed, but as a fairly successful returnee and elected president who had served one term or two. Whatever his ambitions are, modest or vaulting, his constant and instinctive resort to the past will continue to hamstring his presidency, constrain his already limited elbow room, and widen the gap between his aspirations and capabilities. It is time President Buhari put a stop to rule by nostalgia.

  • Buhari approves 30 new Federal High Court judges’ appointments

    Buhari approves 30 new Federal High Court judges’ appointments

    • Appointees to be sworn-in Wednesday

    President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of the Chief Registrar of the Federal High Court, Mrs. Rosemary O. Dugbo Oghoghorie and 29 others as judges of the Federal High Court.

    Their appointment by the President was on the recommendation of the National Judicial Council (NJC).

    NJC’s Acting Director of Information, Soji Oye, said in a statement that the new judges will be sworn-in by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, in Abuja on Wednesday next week.

    Mrs. Dugbo Oghoghorie is taking the slot of Delta State; Yellin S. Bogoro (Bauchi State), Taiwo Obayomi Taiwo (Ogun State), Ibrahim Watila (Borno State), Mallong Peter Hoommuk (Plateau State), Isa Hamma Adama Dashen (Adamawa State), Hassan Dikko (Kebbi State), Jude Kanyioh Dagat (Kaduna State), Olayinka Olusegun Tokode (Osun State) and Simon Akpah Amobeda (Kogi State).

    Others are Jane Egienanwan Inyang (Cross River State), Daniel Emeka Osiagor (Rivers State), Prof. Chuka Austine Obiozor (Anambra State), Iniekenimi Nicholas Oweib (Bayelsa State), Hassan Muslim Sule (Zamfara State), Hadiza Rabiu Shagari (Sokoto State), Saleh Kogo Idrissa (Yobe State), Joyce Obehi Abdulmalik (Edo State) and Hillary Ide Osho Oshomah (Edo State).

    Also included are Fadima Murtala Aminu (Adamawa State), Toyin Bolaji Adegoke (Kwara State), James Kolawole Omotosho (Ogun State), Nehizena Idemudia Ekunwe (Edo State), Stephen Daylop Pam (Plateau State), Akintayo Aluko ( Ekiti State), Dr. Nnamdi O. Dimgba (Abia State), Emeka Nwite (Ebonyi State), Abdulazeez M.Z. Anka (Zamfara State), Abdu Dogo (FCT) and Adamu Turaki Muhammed (Jigawa State).

  • Buhari bounce turns bust as policies irk investors

    Buhari bounce turns bust as policies irk investors

    The economic policies of President  Muhammadu Buhari  are irking investors and eroding their confidence in the country, according to American business news outlet, Bloomberg .

    Stocks had soared following Buhari’s victory in the March election as investors looked to the former military ruler to reverse decades of economic mismanagement and policy inertia. Now hopes have fizzled in his ability to turn around the economy.

    Money that flowed into stocks and bonds in the country, which McKinsey & Co. says could become one of the world’s 20 biggest economies by 2030, is now fleeing as growth prospects diminish along with oil prices. While Buhari, 72, has prioritised stamping out the graft that has plagued Nigeria since independence from Britain in 1960, policy-making appears as uncertain and haphazard as ever.

    “After the initial euphoria, people have become disillusioned,” Ayodele Salami, who oversees about $500 million of African equities as chief investment officer of London-based Duet Asset Management Ltd., said by phone. “He would probably say that he’s being deliberative and cautious. But we expected more.” Duet’s Africa fund has cut its investments in the country to about 24 percent of the total from 38 percent in the last year.

    Buhari waited five months before naming his cabinet, hasn’t proposed a clear plan to revive growth and backed foreign-exchange controls aimed at defending the naira. His retention of gasoline subsidies, plans to raise spending in the face of declining revenue and silence about a $5.2 billion fine levied on mobile-phone operator MTN Group Ltd. have added to investor unease.

    Nigeria’s benchmark stock index has plunged 22 percent since reaching a year-high on April 2, the day after Buhari was declared the winner of the presidential race against incumbent Goodluck Jonathan. That’s the third-worst performance globally in the period, after the bourses in Ukraine and Egypt. The index advanced 12.5 percent in the two days after Jonathan conceded.

    To be sure, Buhari inherited depleted government coffers and a bureaucracy that multiple probes have blamed for looting billions of dollars of oil revenue. The president has said he delayed appointing ministers because he needed time to vet suitable candidates.

    Garba Shehu, a spokesman for Buhari, didn’t immediately respond to written questions after requesting they be sent that way.

    The hiatus has compounded the pain caused by the slide in the price of crude, which accounts for two-thirds of government revenue and 90 percent of export earnings. Growth, which averaged 6.3 percent annually over the past decade, is set to slow to a 16-year low of 3.3 percent this year, according to the median estimate of 15 economists surveyed by Bloomberg.

    Many filling stations ran dry this month as the government withheld fuel subsidies to suppliers, preventing them from restocking. Lengthening lines forced Buhari to ask lawmakers for permission to pay 413 billion naira ($2 billion) in overdue payments, an amount that hadn’t been budgeted for.

  • Buhari okays appointment of FHC Registrar as judge

    … 29 others too

    President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday approved the appointment of the Chief Registrar of the Federal High Court, Mrs. Rosemary O. Dugbo Oghoghorie and 29 others as judges of the Federal High Court.

    The appointment followed the recommendation of the National Judicial Council (NJC).

    NJC’s Acting Director of Information, Soji Oye said, in a statement, that the new judges will be sworn-in on Wednesday in Abuja by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed.

    Mrs. Dugbo Oghoghorie is taking the slot of Delta State.

    The rest are – Yellin S. Bogoro (Bauchi), Taiwo Obayomi Taiwo (Ogun), Ibrahim Watila (Borno),  Mallong Peter Hoommuk (Plateau), Isa Hamma Adama Dashen (Adamawa), Hassan Dikko (Kebbi), Jude Kanyioh Dagat (Kaduna) Olayinka Olusegun Tokode (Osun)  and Simon Akpah Amobeda (Kogi).

    Others  – Jane Egienanwan Inyang (Cross River), Daniel Emeka Osiagor (Rivers), Prof. Chuka Austine Obiozor (Anambra), Iniekenimi Nicholas Oweib (Bayelsa), Hassan Muslim Sule (Zamfara), Hadiza Rabiu Shagari (Sokoto), Saleh Kogo Idrissa (Yobe), Joyce Obehi Abdulmalik (Edo) and Hillary Ide Osho Oshomah (Edo).

    Fadima Murtala Aminu (Adamawa), Toyin Bolaji Adegoke  (Kwara), James Kolawole Omotosho (Ogun), Nehizena Idemudia Ekunwe (Edo), Stephen Daylop Pam (Plateau), Akintayo Aluko ( Ekiti), Dr. Nnamdi O. Dimgba (Abia), Emeka Nwite (Ebony), Abdulazeez M.Z. Anka  (Zamfara), Abdu Dogo (FCT) and Adamu Turaki Muhammed (Jigawa) completed the list.