Today's Headlines: I Won’t Fail You—Tinubu, Gabon New Leader Vows ‘Free’ Elections After Transition
I Won’t Fail You—Tinubu Promises Nigerians
Source: Daily Post
President Bola Tinubu has promised n not to fail Nigerians in his bid to permanently transform the nation’s economy.
Tinubu gave the assurance while receiving members of the Tinubu Support Organisation (TSO) on a solidarity visit to the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
This was contained in a statement signed by Chief Frank Ebere-Njoku, National Spokesperson of the group issued on Monday, NAN reports.
Addressing the group, Tinubu applauded TSO for standing on his mandate, stressing that Nigeria was on the path of recovery.
The president expressed confidence in the capacity of his cabinet members to rescue the country from the present economic quagmire.
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Gabon New Leader Vows ‘Free’ Elections After Transition
Source: Channels TV
General Brice Oligui Nguema, who led a coup last week that toppled Gabon’s 55-year-old ruling dynasty, took the oath of office as interim president on Monday, promising “free, transparent and credible elections” to restore civilian rule but without giving a timeframe.
He also vowed to amnesty political prisoners, in a speech in which he insisted the coup had saved Gabon from bloodshed after elections that were “obviously loaded.”
Oligui, head of the elite Republican Guard, last Wednesday led officers to detain President Ali Bongo Ondimba, scion of a family that had ruled the oil-rich central African nation since 1967.
The ousting came just moments after Bongo, 64, was proclaimed victor in presidential elections — a result branded a fraud by the opposition.
Kano gov tasks aides on wider publicity
Source: Punch paper
The Kano State Governor, Alhaji Abba Yusuf, on Monday, called on media aides appointed by his government to work hard toward publicizing the policies and programmes of the state government to keep people informed on the state government’s activities.
In a press statement made available to newsmen on Monday, the Governor’s spokesperson, Sunusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, said his principal made the call during an interactive meeting, with the media aides that cut across, Special Advisers, Senior Special Assistants, Personal Assistants on Media, Radio, information, Publicity, Public Affairs, Enlightenment, Digital Media, ICT, Social Mobilization, Videography, Photography, Senior Special Reporters and Special Reporters at Coronation hall, Government house.
According to the governor, his administration is coming up with a variety of policies and programmes that have a direct bearing on the lives of the people of the state, hence the need to keep them informed.
FG begs NLC to shelve planned two-day warning strike
Source: The Nation
The federal government has appealed to the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to suspend its planned two-day warning strike slated to commence on Tuesday, September 5.
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Simon Lalong made the appeal on Monday, September 4, in Abuja.
The minister promised to attend to the contending issues raised by the NLC holistically if given some time to settle into office.
He noted that although the ministry was yet to get a notification of the planned strike as required by law from the NLC, the ministry would be having a meeting with the labour leaders by 3 pm today (Monday) with a view to stopping the planned strike.
While expressing worry that the planned action would reverse the gains already made, the minister who promised never to take labour and Nigerian workers for granted, maintained that the federal government had already initiated some actions to cushion the effect of the subsidy removal and was willing to find solutions to the challenges confronting Nigerians as a result of its policies.
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