Today's Headlines:100 days in office; Nigerians Await Actions On Tinubu’s Promises; This Is Best Time To Invest In Nigeria – Tony Elumelu tells Indian investors
Nigerians Await Actions On Tinubu’s Promises
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A few days ago, President Bola Tinubu crossed the symbolic 100 days in office but there was no fanfare because the day coincided with the delivery of judgement on the petition against his victory at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.
After 13 hours of judgement, the court ruled that Mr Tinubu, who is in far-away India, remains the president. The panel dismissed all the petitions against him and his vice, Kashim Shettima.
With the tribunal judgement settled and all ministers fully in place, DAILY POST reviews some of the promises contained in the Renewed Hope Manifesto. The attention will be on low-hanging fruit promises.
However, President Tinubu did not put a specific timeline to achieve some of the promises.
The President already removed the fuel subsidy regime which Nigerians are still waiting for measures that would cushion the effect of its removal. He has equally signed into law the student loan bill but students are yet to get the loans while some schools are increasing fees.
This Is Best Time To Invest In Nigeria
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Heirs Holdings Group Chairman, Tony O. Elumelu, has urged the Indian private sector to seize the opportunity to invest in Nigeria.
He stated this during the Nigeria-India Presidential Roundtable and Conference in New Delhi, India, jointly organised by the High Commission of Nigeria to India, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the Nigeria-India Business Council (NIBC), recently.
Elumelu, who has built pan African financial service businesses and now controls significant power and natural resources operations, all focused on value creation in Africa, was in Delhi for the G20 Summit.
He was in India both as an invitee of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, H.E. Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and as co-chair of the Business 20 (B20) Action Council, focusing on African economic integration, the private sector counterpart to the G20.
During a keynote address, Elumelu invited Indian private sector leaders to join him and other global investors in accessing the rapidly evolving Nigerian economy, home to 20 per cent of Africans and one of the largest consumer populations globally.
“This is the time to invest in Nigeria. I speak as a private sector investor in Nigeria, the companies in our Group’s investment portfolio demonstrate the opportunity. I believe you also can take advantage of our track record and success,” he said.
Organ Harvest Suspect Goes Berserk In Police Cell
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The medical doctor, Noah Kekere, who was alleged to have harvested a woman’s kidney in a private hospital in Jos, the Plateau State capital has reportedly gone berserk while in the police cell at the state police command on Saturday evening.
LEADERSHIP reports that Kekere was arrested on Wednesday following a report to the Nasarawa Gwon Police Division for alleged removal of the right kidney of Mrs Kehinde Kamal during an operation in 2018.
It was gathered that Kekere had prior to his arrest been carrying out medical treatment including surgery for more than two decades in his Murna Clinic and Maternity, located in Yanshanu Community of Jos North local government area of the state.
The state police command had earlier confirmed the arrest of the suspected kidney harvester.
LEADERSHIP gathered that Kekere was rushed to the Psychiatric Unit of Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH), after he exhibited symptoms of mental disorder in the police cell.
PEPT Verdict: Fate Of Nigeria Hangs In The Balance — Catholic Bishops
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Amid the lingering controversy over the judgement of the Presidential Elections Petitions Tribunal, PEPT, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria, CBCN, has said Nigeria currently stands on the precipice of uncertainty as the case moves to the Supreme Court.
Addressing the opening ceremony of the 2023 Second Plenary Assembly of the CBCN in Abuja yesterday, the President of the Conference, Archbishop Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji, voiced concerns over the conduct of the elections, which he said fell short of people’s legitimate expectations and moral and legal standards.
He highlighted the dismissive approach of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, PEPT, towards the petitions filed by aggrieved contestants.
The Catholic Bishops stated: “After hearing their petitions, the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, PEPT, delivered its ruling in a marathon judgement on September 6, 2023.
“The five justices of the Election Petition Tribunal unanimously dismissed the petitions. According to them, they lacked merit.
“Despite the billions of naira of tax-payers money appropriated for the provision of the BVAS technology as a game-changer in our general elections, the judges in their ruling tried, among other things, to suggest that it was wrong to expect INEC to keep its promise or obey the electoral regulation of transmitting election results electronically in real time from polling units.
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