‘Don’t stampede Buhari on restructuring’
Aone-time South-East Zonal Secretary of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Chief Melville Ebo has advised those calling for the restructuring of the country not to stampede President Muhammadu Buhari into taking “rash decisions”.
Ebo, who gave the advice in an interview with newsmen in Abuja, said Buhari met a lot of issues on ground and that what he needs at the moment is support in other to provide the country with the needed leadership.
He said if not for the anticorruption efforts of President Buhari, impunity in business, politics, education and social life, would have destroyed the country.
According to him, while discussions on the future of Nigeria were desirable, the proponents of restructuring must not distract the President from other serious issues.
Ebo, who was an ally of late ex-Senate President, Dr. Chuba Okadigbo, insisted that Nigerians will be losers if the country disintegrates.
He further advised Biafra agitators to retreat for what he called, introspection on the progress the Igbos had made since the civil war.
He maintained that the Igbos would do better if Nigeria survives as one united entity, as according to him, the country’s large size translates into large market for businesses.
Ebo, who noted that the North had been allies of the Igbos, advised politicians from the North and the South-east to work together to move the country forward.
The Citibank Nigeria has concluded plans to build and sustain infrastructure that would improve the academic performance of students within schools in Lagos State.
The project which will span over five years will be done through the Lagos State Project 350 initiative.
In a statement made available
Agroup, the rainbow Renaissance Empowerment Initiative, has asked the Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayo Fayose to apologise to the wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Hajia Aisha Buhari, for linking her with the Halliburton bribery scandal.
The group made the demand yesterday in a statement by its national to Daily Trust in Abuja, Citibank unveiled and presented an upgraded library at Government Senior College, Victoria Island, Lagos.
The Lagos State ministry of education is looking to increase access to knowledge for Lagosians, by getting organisations within the private sector to adopt a library, with a view to upgrade and convert it to an E-Library. coordinator, Robert Terfa. According to him, Fayose embarrassed the president’s wife as well as Nigerians with the allegation.
He said the president’s wife is the nation’s image and “a slap on her is a slap on Nigerians’ pride and that of womanhood”.
The group said it will not hesitate to take appropriate legal steps to stop Fayose from “damaging the nation’s image”. Nathaniel M. Atebije, during the Service of Songs at the NITP House in Abuja, described Olomola as a thorough, amiable and compassionate leader.
The Institute’s Executive Secretary, Tpl. Barka Madziga, said Olomola was a quintessential planner and that his colleagues would miss his fatherly advice.