Today's Headlines: Tinubu announces minister for Niger Delta, reshuffles three ministers-designate, Falana Demands Bawa’s Release

Tinubu announces minister for Niger Delta, reshuffles three ministers-designate

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President Bola Tinubu has approved the redeployment of Abubakar Momoh from the Federal Ministry of Youth to the Federal Ministry of Niger Delta Development.

The Federal Ministry of Youth is to be reassigned to a minister-designate soon.

The ministers-designate allocated to the Federal Ministries of Transportation, Interior, and Marine & Blue Economy have been reshuffled as follows:

(A) H.E. Adegboyega Oyetola is redeployed as the Honourable Minister of Marine & Blue Economy

(B) Hon. Bunmi Tunji-Ojo is redeployed as the Honourable Minister of Interior(C) Hon. Sa’idu Alkali is redeployed as the Honourable Minister of Transportation

Furthermore, both Ministers of State in the Oil & Gas sector are now domiciled in the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources with the following designations:

(i) Sen. Heineken Lokpobiri is the Hon. Minister of State (Oil), Petroleum Resources

(ii) Hon. Ekperipe Ekpo is the Hon. Minister of State (Gas), Petroleum Resources

The president approved the renaming of the Federal Ministry of Environment and Ecological Management as the Federal Ministry of Environment.

Falana Demands Bawa’s Release.

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Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana SAN at the weekend demanded for the release of former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Abdulrasheed Bawa, having spent 67 days in the detention of DSS without any charges and trial.

According to Falana, Bawa’s remand order has since expired.

He said Bawa’s detention is against the provisions of section 493 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act(ACJA) 2015, or section 35 of the Constitution of Nigeria to authorise the detention of a criminal suspect for 67 days without trial. Under the Act, the cumulative lifespan of a remand order is 56 days.

He said, ” Sometime last month, I had cause to demand the immediate release of Mr Godwin Emefiele, the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, the suspended Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission from the custody of the State Security Service.

In the alternative, I requested the Federal Government to charge the two detained suspects before a court of competent jurisdiction, if there was evidence that they had committed criminal offences.”

Cabinet: PWDs threatens legal action against Tinubu over non-inclusion

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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.

“So that is why we planned to approach the court to help us interpret the law made by the former President.

“We are therefore not in support of the swearing-in ceremony of the ministers.

“Some persons might want to say that but there was a commission created to cater for persons with disability. That doesn’t affect the 5 per cent allocation of political appointment for the persons as contained in the law,” Suleiman however stated.

NANS felicitates, charges Badaru on appointment as Defence Minister

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The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has felicitated Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar Badaru on his appointment as the Minister of Defence by President Bola Tinubu.

The student body in a statement by the National Vice President, External Affairs, Comrade Akinteye Afeez, yesterday noted that the appointment of Badaru was in the right direction.

“Defence is essentially crucial and fundamental to the existence, stability,and development of every nation.Withou it, the existence of the sovereign state will be in jeopardy. The Nigeria state, a blessed and foremost black nation in recent years has faced numerous security threats,hence it beckons on her leadership to put an end to the rising insurgency.

“However,it is pertinent to note that defence cuts across economic security, ecological security, physical security,social and political stability. Apparently,the essentiality of defence in a sovereign state can not be undermined; a country can not thrive and prosper if the state security is threatened and her people, territory and properties are not adequately secure.

“President Bola Tinubu knows the importance of defence in a country like ours that has faced innumerable insurgencies.

“On this path of Renewed Hope, the choice and appointment of Alhaji Mohammed Badaru Abubakar as Defence Minister is an affirmation that the pathfinder, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is maven at scouting and bringing on board best brains and talents for progressive cum productive governance.

“Alhaji Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, va leader and public administrator with an unmatched humility and simplicity has overtime distinguished himself through his immense contributions to the betterment of humanity.

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