Today's Headlines: Tinubu Appoints Momoh As N’Delta Mins, PWDs Threatens Legal Action Against Tinubu

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Tinubu Appoints Momoh As Minister Designate For Niger Delta; Reshuffles 3 Ministers-designate

Source: Vanguard paper

Following the outcry over the omission of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs in the recently published ministries and their respective ministers, President Bola Tinubu has approved the redeployment of Engr. Abubakar Momoh from the Federal Ministry of Youth to the Federal Ministry of Niger Delta Development.

The President also made a minor amendment to ministry’s nomenclature from Niger Delta Affairs to Niger Delta Development.

This was contained in a statement issued on Sunday by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale.

The statement said that the Federal Ministry of Youth will be re-assigned to a Minister-Designate soon.

President Tinubu also reshuffled the Ministers-Designate allocated to the Federal Ministries of Transportation, Interior, and Marine & Blue Economy.

Cabinet: PWDs Threatens Legal Action Against Tinubu Over Non-inclusion

Source: Vanguard paper

As President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is expected on Monday to swear-in ministers and members of his cabinet, the umbrella body of Persons With Disability, Northern Nigeria Disability Forum, NNDF has threatened legal action against the President over non-inclusion in the ministerial and other political appointments.

The National Chairman of the forum, Yerima Suleiman on Sunday disclosed the forum’s intention to approach the court, citing a law signed by former President Muhammadu Buhari in 2018 which stipulates that 5% of all political appointments should be allocated to persons with disabilities.

Suleiman said the decision by the forum to approach the court was to ensure their constitutional rights are upheld.

According to him, “we will approach the court to interpret the law. The 2018 law signed by the former President Muhammadu Buhari makes it mandatory that 5 per cent of the appointments be allocated to persons with disabilities. So that is why we felt we don’t have any representative in all the political appointments made so far.

Clark Blasts Governors, Says Some Now Wealthier Than Their States

Source: Vanguard paper

Former Federal Commissioner for Information and South South Leader, Chief Edwin Clark has brutally accused State Governors that they spend their security votes as they will and no one knows how much it amounts to.

Clark who noted this in his 688 page Brutally Frank, his autobiography, said that corruption is the great tragedy of Nigeria.

Recall that the book which has twenty-five, unveiled at the International Conference Centre, ICC, Abuja on Thursday this week, revolves round the journey of Clark as a classroom teacher, a Commissioner, a Minister, a Senator and a National activist spanning over seven decades.

Thousands rally in Niger after junta leader warns against foreign intervention

Source: Punch paper

People came out in large numbers in Niamey, Niger Republic to rally support of last month’s military coup, whose leader has warned against outside intervention while proposing a three-year transition of power.

The latest in a string of pro-coup rallies came a day after the new military ruler in Niamey warned that an attack on Niger would not be a “walk in the park”.

According to AFP, the demonstrators chanted slogans hostile to former colonial power France and West African regional bloc, ECOWAS, which is considering a potential military operation to reinstate elected president Mohamed Bazoum if ongoing negotiations with coup leaders fail.

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