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  • President Buhari’s speeches and their gaps

    It is common knowledge that President Muhammadu Buhari and his loud band of minders campaigned their way into the hearts of fellow compatriots and the biggest office in the country with the memorable chant of CHANGE. While those who can still call their souls theirs will not contend against the glaring truth that Nigeria is in dire need of an oceanic change in all facets and sectors of its national life, what is rather puzzling is that those who champion the cause of the needed change hardly bother to beam the floodlight of change in the way certain things are done in the hallowed office. Here I am speaking of the speeches of the President. I stand with Farooq Kperogi in his brilliant observation (published by Sahara online portal on September 6, 2015, with the title ‘From Febuhari to ‘’Wailing Wailers’’: linguistic creativity decline of the Buhari brand’)that ‘President Buhari’s political brand is going from being the most linguistically innovative in the run-up to the last general election to being lackluster and plagued by grammatical and creativity deficits’.

    As a compulsively conscious minder of everything Nigerian, I have, at great pains, listened to President Buhari’s extemporaneous speeches and read some of the written ones, delivered in and out of Nigeria. I have nothing to gain from recklessness and frivolity, and as such they do not motivate my observations of his oral and written speeches. I am one of the few Nigerians who have not been impressed with the President’s planned and unplanned addresses. Too many gaps and gaffes define them. Most times, the speeches neither educate nor do they entertain at the level of elegance. If you are weaned on elegant prose and have increasing appetite for excellently realised literary expressions and engaging mnemonic phrases, you will deprive yourself of happiness to look to President’s Buhari’s speeches for one.

    I read (with all sincerity I have difficulty making meaning of his words, hence I try to refrain from listening to him read) his first Independence Anniversary Address since assuming office and I encountered the same blandness in thoughts and flatness in expressions, plus the usual assorted grammatical bloomers. For that, I am inclined to agree with Paulo Coelho that ‘a mistake repeated more than once is a decision’. Buhari and his scriptwriters seem to have elevated inelegance in thoughts and writing to the upper chambers of excellence in the same way they have raised the anti-corruption war to the same level as structured, modern governance.

    It is against the foregoing backdrop that I weigh in with the following thoughts.

    Writing is easy, but writing well requires a greater dose of efforts. Thus, those who think and write for the president of a country cannot be those who just write. They have to be people who think progressively more profoundly and write well. Andre Breton educates us clearly on this requisite requirement when he says, ‘Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature’s chief masterpiece is writing well’.

    Certain presidential speeches across the world refuse to negotiate obscurity because those who wrote them had depths and the facilities of mind to write well. Those enduring speeches are products of efforts – structured applicationsof excellence through considerable and concerted efforts. When you encounter Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, you become a witness to the efforts demonstrated in their speeches. When you read Martin Luther King Jr., John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and Charles de Gaulle, you cannot miss the sheer breath of efforts evident in their clear thinking, cut-through logics, and entertaining literary richness. Have you pored over Nelson Mandela’s, Obafemi Awolowo’s, Kwame Nkrumah’s, Julius Nyerere’s, Nnamdi Azikiwe’s speeches, among a few other notable ones? You will never miss the pearls of good thoughts and the gems of elegant expressions even if all you do is a cursory reading. Or is there anyone who thinks Benjamin Netanyahu, Barack Obama, David Cameron, and, incredibly, Robert Mugabe, make speeches that are mediocrely produced?

    President Buhari’s speechwriters must attune their Nigerian minds to this settled fact: When you are a president’s speechwriters, you either write well or you do not venture there at all. When you are a president’s script authors, you must reflect and radiate the best of your craft always. You must improve your craft again and again. You must deploy your punctuations masterfully as you plot the graph of your thoughts masterly. The writer, Arlo Bates, articulately teaches that, ‘no man can write really well who does not punctuate well, who cannot vitally mean every punctuation mark as clearly as vigorously as he means any word’.It is the unvarnished fact those who write for the president have to face.

    Nothing short of or shorn of excellence must define the speeches of a president. If the institution called the presidency is grand, its outputs in all particular areas must be unavoidably grand and deliberately indicative of the organised pursuit of excellence. Everything about a president must ennoble the country, encourage the people to strive for positive values, and endear the young citizens to the values of excellence and virtues.

    A lot is revealed in the speeches of a leader. Through a leader’s oral and written addresses we come to know the quality of their thinking; we know the depths of their minds; we know in the way the speeches are written whether the leader is given to the pursuit of excellence or ‘the enemy called average’. Buhari and his speechwriters cannot continue to churn out hollow, flat, and inelegant texts and expect us to think they are visionary people committed to the pursuit of excellence. They must reach deeper into themselves or seek help to say what notable thing they need to say notably. They must remark remarkably and represent the grand office grandly. They must not be contented with punching below the weight of the Office of the President.

    Speeches that will outlive the entire time of President Buhari in office and his life on earth must necessarily steer clear of the little pond of ordinariness, which adorn his speeches since taking office. I wish to demand of the President and his writers to begin the real change they so deafeningly campaigned about from the presidency. That institution has birthed too much garnished claptrap and is yet to produce ideas and values we all as citizens can be greatly proud to associate with. The transition that has taken place in that institution must not be without a corresponding lasting transformation. When the president’s speeches accommodate excellence in substance and form, the fear that those who lead Nigeria do not think will fade away. But if the present inhabitants of the Nigerian Presidency remain inured to the old mediocre, belittling ways of doing things, Nigerians will not be diffidentto say like Mahatma Ghandi, we ‘can retain neither respect nor affection for [a] government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality’ and mediocrity.

     

    • Adesola, writes from

    Obafemi Awolowo University,

    Ile-Ife,

    Osun State.

     

     

  • Jonathan’s letter writers

    Jonathan’s letter writers

    Whether they wrote the letter to President Buhari from self-motivation, or they merely read former president Goodluck Jonathan’s lips and put their worries in writing, the ex-ministers who issued a statement late August condemning the Buhari government’s seeming ploy to deflate the contributions of the former president were controversial, if not misguided. Dr Abubakar Suleiman, a former National Planning minister, reportedly issued the statement on behalf of some Jonathan ministers. They decried what they believed were efforts to ‘condemn, ridicule and undermine’ the contributions of Dr Jonathan to nation-building. The former president should be given his due, they suggested tersely.

    If the Nigerian presidency had not been run by a camorra of former presidents, nearly all of whom think they are supernatural, infallible and exceptional, no one who carefully contemplates the sordid manner Dr Jonathan presided over Nigeria would think of standing up for him or writing anything in his defence. In the light of the forced resignation of the Guatemalan president, Otto Perez Molina, not to talk of his detention in jail, former Nigerian presidents have been treated undeservingly very well.

    The Buhari presidency may be acting very awkwardly in exposing and remedying the misdeeds of Dr Jonathan, but it has not been severe or irrational. From all the disclosures so far, Dr Jonathan should be in jail awaiting trial. And not only he, even his predecessors, chiefly Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida, should have been tried long ago and put away for the abominable manner they presided over Nigeria and caused her so much grief. While it is recommended that the Buhari presidency should fine-tune its investigations into the misdeeds of past governments to eliminate the veneer of vendetta, it should not waver in its determination to unearth those misdeeds.

     

  • Buhari administers polio vaccines on children in Daura

    Buhari administers polio vaccines on children in Daura

    President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday administered Oral Polio Vaccines (OPV) on some children in his country home, Daura, Katsina State.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the event which took place at the residence of the president, was part of the campaign to wipe out the virus from the country by 2017.

    NAN reports that the president who did not make any comment during the exercise, was assisted by Katsina State Gov. Aminu Masari and the Permanent Secretary, State Ministry of Health, Dr Ahmad Qabasiyyu.

    Masari and the Emir of Daura, Alhaji Umar Farouq also administered the polio vaccines on some of the children.

    In remarks, Masari said that the state had not recorded a single case of polio infection in the past three years.

    He expressed his administration’s determination to intensify efforts towards eradicating the virus from the state by 2017.

    The governor urged parents to continue to present their children for the routine polio immunisation in their respective areas.

    The state Coordinator, World Health Oganisation (WHO), Alh. Ali Yuguda, said that the fight against polio was recording tremendous success globally.

    He disclosed that only 37 polio cases were so far reported in Afghanistan and Pakistan this year.

    Yuguda urged parents to continue to present their children for the immunisation in order to wipe out the virus completely from the country by 2017.

    He reiterated the readiness of WHO to continue to support Nigeria to be polio free by 2017.

  • Derailing of Nigeria: the smaller picture (2)

    Derailing of Nigeria: the smaller picture (2)

    Within the country, a visit to passport offices across the country often reveals that the Immigration Service is also engaged in sharp practices but only in a way more subtle than that of the police on inner-city streets and highways.

    There has to be a general recognition that this crisis (corruption) is moral as well as economic. It is, indeed, a perfect illustration of the economics of morality—the absence of a sense of propriety, of restraint and of right and wrong, was not just obnoxious, it was economically disastrous.—Fintan O’Toole

    The first part of this column last week argued that as much attention as is being paid to the big picture of political and bureaucratic corruption by President Buhari needs to be paid to less elaborate corrupt practices that exist within the security forces and other agencies. Today’s piece will conclude the series on what appears to be minor corrupt practices but which call for as much effort on the part of the Buhari government to initiate an elaborate process of ethical re-engineering, without which no modern nation can thrive.

    On the topic of uniformed officers using their positions to defraud citizens and the state, the two agencies not covered last week: the Customs and Immigration Services do not generally fare any better than the Nigeria Police Force, Federal Road Safety Commission, and military units assigned to perform civil duties that we covered last week. Nigeria in the last few decades has been one of a few countries in which Customs officers act as highway police. It is common practice to see Nigerian customs officers on highways that are farther than 100 miles from the coast or any international border. Customs officers, such as are found on the highways between Lagos and Ibadan, Ibadan and Ife, Ijebu-Ode and Ore, Ore and Benin, for example, stop not only vehicles carrying containers but individual motorists going or coming from work to check if they carry contrabands or goods that had not been duly cleared at the seaports or at the borders.

    Most of the time, motorists who get stopped end up being made to give some money to the officers who stop them. It will be more cost-effective for customs officers operating in the middle of the forest in many parts of the country to be deployed to seaports and highways that link Nigeria with other countries. If there were efficient and honest performance of customs officers, citizens or foreigners who convey containers on highways would have cleared their goods at the ports or at border posts before getting on domestic highways, thus obviating the need to post hundreds of customs officers to highways in the middle of the country to apprehend persons trying to evade customs charges. Citizens who are often flagged down by customs officers on the highways need to be saved from such harassment and exploitation. If the Customs Service is overstaffed, then the agency needs immediate rightsizing through deployment of redundant customs officers to other sectors.

    Similarly, customs officers in collaboration with NDLEA staff at international airports also harass citizens, not for carrying illegal drugs but for carrying food items that they want to consume in their destinations. Tricks used to create difficulties for travellers include asking them to go and obtain licence to take food out of the country, even when the food being transported is not in commercial quantity. For fear of missing their flights, such customers are often pressured to part with some money. Such harassment makes citizens lose respect for and confidence in the authority of customs and NDLEA officers who are deployed just to check the luggage of travellers exiting the country. No public servant should be given a chance to create the type of difficulties that citizens experience on their way out of the country at each of the country’s international airports. The technology for effective detection of cocaine and other illegal drugs has gone past two or three uniformed men or women rummaging with their hands through travellers’ bags, just to complain about small quantity of food in the luggage of travellers, especially those with children.

    Immigration officers appear to be more restrained than other agencies. Yet there are many cases of harassment by Immigration officers of citizens, particularly those coming back home on expired passports. Many of such officers appear ignorant of the general problem in Nigerian embassies abroad with respect to renewal or re-issue of passports. Even in places such as New York, Washington and London (second home to millions of Nigerians), Nigerian embassies are often unable to process new passports for citizens in good time for their travel plans on the excuse of not having in store passport booklets. Most of the time, such persons still get to enter the country after ‘greasing the palms’ of officers at the Lagos or Abuja end. Moreover, those who come to the country to obtain their visas at the entry point are not immune from harassment. Within the country, a visit to passport offices across the country often reveals that the Immigration Service is also engaged in sharp practices but only in a way more subtle than that of the police on inner-city streets and highways. Each passport office allows touts or passport contractors to run after potential applicants for passports right from the gate, marketing benefits of accelerated service. Unlike in other countries, such quick service attracts double the cost of a regular passport and receipt that does not reflect payment for accelerated service.

    Even traffic wardens in uniform are wont to take full advantage of their uniform to fleece motorists. It does not matter what names they bear from state to state, traffic wardens who are not full-fledged police also extort money from motorists for claim of infractions of traffic code. They too are in the habit of jumping into vehicles to negotiate traffic fines. In some instances, there is collaboration between police and traffic wardens to extort money from motorists. In addition, during the era of Sure-P’s special federal task force staff, citizens were also pressured to part with 200 or more naira, particularly on Lagos roads.

    All this is to draw attention of the new government to the abysmal level of ethical standards on the part of those employed to enhance security and safety of citizens. The culture of corruption cuts across income levels and across occupational lines. Those endowed with political and bureaucratic power make efforts to steal billions of naira, most of which President Buhari is already planning to retrieve. On their own part, those with the little power bestowed by the uniforms they wear steal whatever they can get from poor citizens. But the effects of formal sector corruption of ministers and civil servants and of informal sector extortion of citizens by police and other uniformed workers are similar. In both cases, citizens are robbed directly or indirectly. State authority is also eroded.

    Just as big-time thieves of state property rarely get punished and shamed to restore citizens’ confidence in the state, so is it rare to find erring police, immigration, and customs being subjected to the principle of crime and punishment. In societies where corruption is nurtured by impunity, citizens either become cynical or resigned to corruption as a way of life. The 2105 presidential election was a rebellion against kleptocratic governments in the country. While there are several individuals, groups, and non-governmental organisations that are already pleading with President Buhari not to probe anybody unless he is ready to probe everybody from the government of Balewa to that of Jonathan, there is no doubt that majority of voters who brought Buhari to power with their votes, though generally voiceless, are enthusiastic about the fight against corruption.

    But the war against corruption will remain half-hearted or half-won if it is directed solely at big-time looters. It will be in order for the Buhari government to involve citizens in the fight against corruption. Citizens may not be adept petition writers, but they know their neighbours who live above their wages and salaries. Opening special Ombudsman offices in state headquarters to collect information from citizens suspected of graft or extortion may be a good addition to the two major anti-corruption agencies. Moreover, the principle of crime and punishment needs to be invoked at all times. The best way to restore and sustain citizens’ confidence in government is to assure them that those who dare the state by violating its laws are punished accordingly. This is also the best way to promote compliance habit on the part of citizens.

  • Buhari is aware of federal character – Adesina

    Buhari is aware of federal character – Adesina

    As more Nigerians react to the recent appointments by the federal government on the basis of ethnicity, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, on Friday said the president is mindful of the existence of federal character and that appointment would go round soonest.

    Speaking during a radio programme he featured on RayPower 100.5 FM, Adesina was reacting to the criticisms that the appointments made so far by the president favoured only the northerners.

    The presidential adviser said the federal character would be displayed in more appointments in September adding that,” appointments made so far by the president cannot be faulted by anyone as they are done purely on merit.”

    He assured all stakeholders that the President would keep to his promise of appointing the remaining aides and ministers ‎in September.

  • Chibok girls: Jonathan’s govt frustrated rescue efforts – Ezekwesili

    Chibok girls: Jonathan’s govt frustrated rescue efforts – Ezekwesili

    Former Minister of Education and Co-converner of the #BringBackOurGirls group, Obiageli Ezekwesili, on Thursday said that the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan was a terrible period in the rescue of the Chibok Girls.

    Ezekwesili said that the former president’s administration gave false information that demoralized the advocacy of the group and many Nigerians.

    The former minister, who spoke on Kaakaki, a weekly programme on African Independent Television to mark 500 days since the girls were kidnapped from their Secondary school in Chibok, Borno state, added that the parents of the girls never got any information that was credible from the then government.

    She said that the group rejoiced when former Chief of Defense Staff announced to Nigerians and the rest of the world that government knew where the girls were being held.

    Information, she said, turned out to be ‘decorating information’ by the then government.

    She said: “You recall that on May 26, 2014 the then Chief of Defense staff said that they had located the girls that the issue was that they needed strategic maneuver in other to rescue them alive.

    “We were rejoicing on the day that that information was given. Subsequently other false information was given to us by the same government and that completely demoralized our advocacy because it suddenly seemed as if the desire was not really focused on credibly finding the girls.

    “It was not just the BringBackOurGirls that was demoralized during that period. It was the whole world. The whole world could not understand how come the information concerning the girls just seemed to be massaged in all directions.

    “At some point we did a mapping of the various information that was coming out of government. We said to ourselves that we were not going to be an anecdotal movement. We were going to simply keep a focus on monitoring the statements of government, the actions of government so that we could analytically say this is what the trend seems to suggest.

    “I am saying to you with every sincere bone in me that it was a terrible period.”

    She said that the group has renewed hope that the Chibok girls will be rescued since it met with President Muhammadu Buhari.

    Ezekwesili said that the 219 girls who answered the call to be educated will not be forgotten.

    “219 young women who answered the call to be educated in other to improve their lot in life as well as enhance our own society cannot be abandoned by their nation and fellow citizen. That therefore keeps us hopeful. We are never going to stop hoping. They cannot be forgotten.

    “We met with the president on July 8. During that engagement the president reiterated the point that he had in his inaugural address that rescuing the Chibok girls was of priority for the administration and that they would maximize their efforts at rescuing the girls.

    “We see that as the constructive engagement that we desired with the government when this situation first arouse we see it now. That is constructive, that is based on a sense that government owes accountability to citizens,” she added.

     

  • Indian envoy lauds Buhari’s fight against corruption

    Indian envoy lauds Buhari’s fight against corruption

    The Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Amb. Rangaian Ghanashyam, on Wednesday said that President Buhari’s ongoing effort at fighting corruption would attract more foreign investments.

    Ghanashyam made the assertion in Lagos at a three-day seminar on “Enhancing Trade and Investment between India and Nigeria’’ being attended by 100 Indian companies.

    The envoy said that Buhari’s commitment to fighting corruption would not only attract more foreign investments but would also make Nigeria “stand on itself’’.

    “Let me say that this country, Nigeria, is now in safe hands because what President Buhari is doing would make more investors to come to Nigeria.

    “This is, therefore, an hour in Nigeria for everyone to dream of a Nigeria that would be standing on her own.

    “And if Nigeria cannot stand on her own, Africa cannot also stand on her own,’’ he said.

    The high commissioner expressed optimism that sustenance of the present administration’s fight against corruption would make Nigeria to maintain its enviable position in the continent.

    Ghanashyam also urged Nigeria to urgently move away from dependence on oil and focus on the development of her non-oil products.

    Mr Naresh Leeka, who led the Indian companies to Lagos, said that the seminar coincided with the inauguration of the “The India Show, Nigeria’’.

    Leeka, who said that there was a growing level of Indian products and services in Nigeria, added that the show would provide opportunity for technology transfer between India and Nigeria.

    He said the Indian companies were in Nigeria to share their areas of comparative advantage as well as their readiness to partner with their Nigerian counterparts.

    “The focus of this programme is to explore the synergy between India and Nigeria,’’ he said

    Leeka said the whole essence of investment and trade interaction was to add value to both countries’ economies.

    Mrs Aisa Baba-Hassan, Executive Secretary and Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC), assured the Indian companies of Buhari’s commitment to providing them with good investment environment.

    The visiting 100 Indian companies came from the agriculture, electrical, textile, pharmaceutical, automotive, construction, engineering, oil and gas, power, water and other sectors.

  • PAC against corruption

    PAC against corruption

    The Sagay committee should not only work at better perception for President Buhari’s anti-corruption war, it should push for speedier procedures without sacrificing justice 

    The national mood, which clearly favours a consensus against corruption, paints the Itse Sagay-led Presidential Advisory Committee (PAC) Against Corruption as the proverbial man come to meet the moment.

    The Sagay team appears peopled by names that boost public confidence.  Prof Sagay himself, vocal silk and human rights activist, needs no introduction.  Prof. Femi Odekunle, professor of criminology, was victim of raw impunity — a grim corruption of power — under the Sani Abacha military dictatorship, when he was roped into an alleged coup.

    Other members, by academic discipline, technical competence or activist temper, appear well positioned to take a holistic look at corruption; and offer fitting response to it by Nigeria’s often slow and dodgy criminal justice system: Dr. Benedicta Daudu, associate professor of International Law, Prof. E. Alemika, a professor of Sociology, Prof. Sadiq Radda, another professor of Criminology, and Hadiza Bala Usman, a civil society organisation activist.  Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, of the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, is the committee’s executive secretary.

    If Nigerians seem largely agreed on the imperative to root out corruption in their national life, the international community too appears trenchant in support.  The Sagay committee, therefore, is supported by a US $5million Anti-Corruption and Criminal Justice Reform Fund, courtesy of the trio of the Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation and Open Society Foundation.  The independent funding would shield the committee from government meddlesomeness, which is good; even if the Buhari Presidency appears in tune with the people’s outrage against corruption, and would appear determined to lead the charge.

    The support fund is to be managed by Trust Africa, a non-government reform body, with presence in more than 25 countries in Africa, with the gospel of reforms to make governance cleaner; by keeping sleaze out of government business, and channelling resources into growth and development triggers.

    So, by local and international anti-corruption consensus, the Sagay committee would appear in good company.  Even the Goodluck Jonathan Presidency, under whose charge have come humongous allegations of corruption and mind-boggling sleaze, had ironically weighed in, in support of the Sagay committee, even before the committee was created.

    Just before leaving power, President Jonathan signed into law the Administration of Criminal Justice Act of 2015.  Aside from repealing the Criminal Procedure Act and the Criminal Procedure Code, the 495-section law, sponsored by Dr. Ali Ahmad, a lawyer and member of the House of Representatives in the 7th National Assembly, made other far-reaching provisions (former CJN, Justice Aloma Muktar, called the law “revolutionary”), all aimed at fastening procedures, without jeopardising justice.

    So, all appears set for the committee to tackle its brief: develop comprehensive interventions for achieving recommended reforms in Nigeria’s criminal justice system; and advise the president on prosecuting the anti-corruption war.

    So, with the balance of sentiments, is the Sagay committee home and dry?  No.  Media spinning has all but eliminated the concept of manifest goodness in the public space.  Therefore, even the most hideous and morally repugnant of behaviours now claim their equal-opportunity right to be tabled and heard.  Besides, it is trite in British common law, which is the basis for Nigeria’s criminal laws, that an accused is presumed innocent until proven guilty.  So, in the infrastructure of public opinion and procedure of the courts, the PAC enjoys no especial advantage: Corruption would not go down without a fight.

    Yet, a rigorous and focused membership, and the mood of the public, can help the committee  to turn the structural disinterestedness into strengths.  Since its mission deemed it worthy and its job well cut out, it must leverage public opinion to further attract and retain public support.  It should therefore project its activity such that the public is doubly convinced that its mission is total elimination of corruption, without prejudice to any vested interest.  If it wins the perception war, and it retains its integrity, the mission would have been half-accomplished.

    On the more technical aspect, however, it should focus on how fast the country can implement the provisions of the Administration of Criminal Justice law.  The bane of rooting out corruption here is the subversion of the criminal justice system through bungled investigation, cynical stalling of the judicial process by subversive injunctions and outright brazen bribery of judicial officers.  The new law has made provisions for how these anomalies can be tackled.  So, the committee’s starting point would be to recommend how best to implement these sections, as fast as possible.

    Proceeding from these basics, it can then advise the president on whether to set up special tribunals to try corruption cases, with a special bent on judicial procedures with zero tolerance for delay; or designate some courts to solely handle corruption cases.

    The Sagay committee has a historic responsibility.  Its membership has the intellectual and technical competence for the job at hand.  President Buhari, so far from words and action, appears ready.  The people — except, of course, the potentially guilty graft barons — are also eager.

    The committee must, therefore, match its intellectual capacity with clear passion for the job.  It must always remember: Nigeria must kill corruption to prevent corruption from killing it.

  • Photo: Ministry of Housing holds presidential briefing

    Photo: Ministry of Housing holds presidential briefing

    President Muhammadu Buhari flanked by the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, Mr. George Ossi (6l) and the Managing Director, Federal Housing Authority, Prof. Muhammad Al-Amin during the Presidential briefing by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development at the State House, Abuja.
    President Muhammadu Buhari flanked by the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, Mr. George Ossi and the Managing Director, Federal Housing Authority, Prof. Muhammad Al-Amin during the Presidential briefing by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development at the State House, Abuja.
    L-R Director PRS, Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, Mr. Aethebirth Muoka; Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Mr. George Ossi; President Muhammadu Buhari and Managing Director, Federal Housing Authority, Prof. Muhammad Al-Amin during the Presidential briefing by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development at the State House, Abuja.
    L-R Director PRS, Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, Mr. Aethebirth Muoka; Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Mr. George Ossi; President Muhammadu Buhari and Managing Director, Federal Housing Authority, Prof. Muhammad Al-Amin during the Presidential briefing by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development at the State House, Abuja.
  • Photo: President meets with MAN officials

    Photo: President meets with MAN officials

    L-R President Muhammadu Buhari (centre) with Chairman Plastic Sector of Nigeria Dr. Bashir Abdullahi, Managing Director Jacobs Wines Ltd. Dr. Frank S. Udemba Jacobs, Vice President Lagos Zone, Rev.Isaac Agoye and other members of the MAN after the meeting of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria with the President at the State House Abuja yesterday.
    L-R President Muhammadu Buhari (centre) with Chairman Plastic Sector of Nigeria Dr. Bashir Abdullahi, Managing Director Jacobs Wines Ltd. Dr. Frank S. Udemba Jacobs, Vice President Lagos Zone, Rev.Isaac Agoye and other members of the MAN after the meeting of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria with the President at the State House Abuja yesterday.