ASHENEWS reports that President Bola Tinubu has approved the “Pulaaku Initiative”, and allocated the sum of N50 billion to the initiative, in its first instance, as non-kinetic solution to deal with insurgency and banditry in the Northern parts of Nigeria.
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According to him, “it is inconceivable for the Federal Government to take a loan of $3.3 billion with an interest rate that is not more than 12 per cent, but with estimated repayment amounting to $12 billion”, adding that it is also that “Nigeria’s current Barrels Produced Daily (BPD) is 1.38 million, and according to the Project Gazelle deal, Nigeria is to supply 90,000 Barrels of its daily production, starting from 2024 till it is up to 164.25 million barrels for the repayment of the loan.”
The Katsina Elders’ Forum has warned President Bola Tinubu against the plan to relocate the refurbished airport rescue and firefighting vehicles project of the Umaru Musa Yar’Adua International Airport in Katsina to the South or risk the votes of Northerners in 2027.
The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy and Coordination and Head of Central Delivery and Coordination Unit, Hadiza Bala-Usman, has revealed that ministers who fail to deliver on their mandates will be sacked.
The Senate Committee Chairman on the Army, Ali Ndume has warned President Bola Tinubu that relocating some departments of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) headquarters to Lagos, will have political implication.
Blinken’s plane touched down at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja at 4.40 pm local time, 35 minutes beyond the expected time of arrival.
“It is worth noting that the movement of service chiefs out of station (Abuja) is with the prior knowledge of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), the Honourable Minister of Defence (HMOD), and the presidency. So, why was a meeting scheduled for about the same time that the late COAS was to have departed for (or arrived) Kaduna and why the insistence that he (COAS) should not be represented?”
Former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has said that Nigerians should not complain about President Bola Tinubu’s ‘economic cbaos’ because they had the opportunity to vote right.
The destabilizization agenda of the North can be traced back to the failed coup attempts of the First Republic. Lieutenant Colonel Bukar Suka Dimka, a northerner from Plateau state, initiated the northern chapter of the plot by assassinating the then Head of State, General Murtala Mohammed. Another northern military officer, Gideon Okar from Benue, further revealed the agenda by announcing the purported excision of Northern Nigeria from the rest of the country.
ASHENEWS reports that President Bola Tinubu has told Nigerian governors elected under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), to design and implement policies and programmes that are people-centered, irrespective of their political affiliations.