Today's Headlines:No Civil Servant Can Frustrate Me_Umahi Boasts;We Mean Well For Nigeria – Oluremi Tinubu
No Civil Servant Can Frustrate Me_Umahi Boasts
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David Umahi, Minister of Works, has urged civil servants to key into his agenda of providing quality infrastructure for the country, warning that no civil servant has capacity to frustrate his efforts.
The minister, who warned that his file should not spend more than two hours on the table of any official of the ministry, said he was determined to instill discipline and hard work in the system.
Umahi stated this while interacting with contractors and senior civil servants in the ministry.
He said, “No civil servant has the capacity to frustrate me. You can’t keep my file in your office for two hours. You can’t try it,” stressing that he was not answerable to anybody but the Almighty God and President Bola Tinubu.
He charged the civil servants to do things properly as Nigerians were yearning for change and the government cannot afford to disappoint them.
The minister also likened public funds to cancer, leprosy, HIV/ AIDS and many others, saying who ever misappropriates such under his watch would be cursed.
Meanwhile, Umahi while inspecting the Abuja-Lokoja road, alongside the governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, said he was not satisfied with the work on Jamata Bridge, near Lokoja, saying the area was flood prone but the ongoing works did not take that into consideration.
We Mean Well For Nigeria_Oluremi Tinubu
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ABUJA – The First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has said her husband, President Bola Tinubu, means well for the country despite the hardship being experienced by many citizens as a result of the removal of petrol subsidy.
She admonished Nigerians to look beyond the present situation in the country and see the bigger picture which has light at the end of the tunnel.
She stated this when she received wives of service chiefs and the Inspector General of Police led by the wife of the Chief of Defence Staff and President, Defence and Police Wives Association, Mrs. Oghogho Musa.
Oluremi Tinubu said the administration of President Tinubu was doing everything possible to ensure that it cushions the effects of the fuel subsidy removal, adding that Nigerians would begin to reap the fruits of the efforts when the gains of the policy begin to materialise.
She said her pet project, the Renewed Hope Initiative, is also supporting the government in this regard and that is why she is soliciting the support of the wives of the service chiefs.
The First Lady in a statement issued by her Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Busola Kukoyi, was quoted as saying, “We will need your various associations from time to time, at least to be able to reach women in your various barracks, to reassure them that we mean well for this country, and that they should be patient and that whatever we can do to ameliorate what the subsidy has meted to us, we believe there is always light at the end of the tunnel.
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AU Plans Fresh Sanctions, Abdulsalami Warns Against War
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The African Union has suspended the Republic of Niger from all its activities following last month’s military coup in the country.
In a communiqué issued on Tuesday, the union noted that its decision to suspend Niger followed the failure of the military junta to hand over power to the democratically elected President, Mohamed Bazoum.
“The AU decides, in line with the relevant AU instruments, in particular, the AU Constitutive Act, the Protocol Relating to the Establishment of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union, and the African Charter on Democracy, Elections, and Governance, to immediately suspend the participation of the Republic of Niger in all activities of the AU and its organs and institutions until the effective restoration of constitutional order in the country.
“The AU, in this regard, calls upon all member states of the AU and the international community, including bilateral and multilateral partners at large, to reject this unconstitutional change of government and to refrain from any action likely to grant legitimacy to the illegal regime in Niger,” the communiqué read.
The turnout is a sequel to back-and-forth negotiations and threats from concerned stakeholders to see to the restoration of democracy in the Sahel state.
We must change our pattern, Wike charges FCTA Staff
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The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has charged directors of the various departments in the administration to change their patterns and allow improvements in the territory.
The minister gave the charge during the official handover of files by the Permanent Secretary of the FCTA, Mr Olusade Adesola, at the Conference Hall of the Federal Capital Development Authority in Abuja on Tuesday.
Wike, who sought to clarify earlier remarks at a press briefing on Monday, following his inauguration by President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, explained that his vision was to promptly attend to the issues of sanitation, provision of streetlights, and transportation in the FCT, all of which he said would be made functional in a short time.
He urged directors and soon-to-be-appointed secretaries of the FCTA to ask to be reposted to a different department if they felt that they would not be able to deliver on whatever portfolios they were assigned to.
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