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  • State House hospital to henceforth serve only me, Osinbajo – Buhari orders

    President Muhammadu Buhari has directed that the State House Medical Centre (SHMC) revert to a Clinic to serve only the first and second families.

    By implication, the clinic will no longer be accessible to any other except President Buhari and members of his immediate family and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and members of his immediate family as well.

    The Permanent Secretary, State House, Mr Jalal Arabi, announced this on Monday, when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Federal Character and Inter-Governmental Affairs for the 2019 budget defence.

    “Without prejudice to what is currently obtainable at SHMC, the intention to revert to a clinic is a Presidential directive. This is to make sure that the facility is functional and serves the purpose for which it was established, ab initio,” he was quoted in a statement by the Deputy Director (Information), Mr. Attah Esa.

    Arabi explained that the reversion of the Centre to a Clinic was a case of ‘‘cutting one’s coat according to your cloth.’’

    ‘‘It was initially meant to serve the first and second families and those working within and around the Villa.

    ‘‘The overstretching of facilities at the Medical Centre by patients is some of the challenges the Centre have been going through. It wasn’t meant for that purpose.

    ‘‘Nobody was charging anyone for any services and relying on appropriation means we will depend on subvention when it comes to run the Centre.

    ‘‘Whatever comes is what you utilise and if the last patient comes in to take the last drugs based on the last budgetary release, that is it and we have to wait till another release is done.

    ‘‘But this new development means that services will be streamlined to a clinic that will serve those that it was meant to serve when it was conceived,’’ the Permanent Secretary said.

    The Centre was a focal point during the 2-hour presentation and budget defence by the Permanent Secretary before the Senate Committee.

    Arabi disclosed that the Centre had a total budget of N1.03 bn in the 2018 appropriation, with N698 million as capital expenditure and N331.7 million as overhead cost.

    The total overhead expenditure released for the Centre from January – December 2018 was N331.7m, representing 99.9 percent while the capital releases on projects is N231.9m, representing 33.2 percent.

    In his remarks, the Chairman of the Committee, Sen. Danjuma La’ah (PDP-Kaduna South) welcomed the proposal to make the SHMC fully functional and ensure that members of the first and second families use the facilities at the clinic.

    Senator La’ah assured that committee will support full funding for the Clinic and commended the 2018 budget performance in State House, compared to previous years, despite revenue challenges.

  • Why Nigeria is finding it difficult to make progress under Buhari – Osinbajo

    Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday explained why the President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government is having challenges making any progress since assumption of office.

    The Vice President said the major problem facing Nigeria is lack of integrity on the part of its leaders.

    Osinbajo said the ugly trend reared its head more especially with past leadership of the country.

    He made these remarks while speaking at the 11th colloquium of the All Progressives Congress (APC) leader, Bola Tinubu, on Thursday.

    Osinbajo, representing President Muhammadu Buhari at the event, said bad leadership of the past cost the country major infrastructural development.

    He blamed past governments for being wasteful in times of abundance.

    “I have said it before, Nigeria’s main problem is not a lack of ideas, it’s not. Most of the time, especially with the leadership of the past, it is lack of integrity in leadership and corruption in particular and it is the reason we are finding it difficult to make any progress.

    “That is why we earned $383 billion in four years – 2010 to 2014 – the highest ever in the history of our country and yet Lagos-Ibadan expressway not done, all of what is being done today not done.

    “We cannot point to a single major project, a single major infrastructure project that was completed in the ten years period despite the high wealth, including power. So, a government coming after so many years of waste must be a government that first, emphasises fiscal prudence, a government that emphasises integrity in public finance so that we manage the little resources we have to achieve the maximum that can be achieved and that is what President Muhammadu Buhari has set out to do.”

    Osinbajo, who served as Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos State during Tinubu’s administration, eulogised the APC leader

    “We do it (the colloquium) in celebration of a man who has spent the last 30 years of his life in creative public service. Right from the days of being Lagos governor, he provided clarity of thought and rare vision in all aspects of life.

    “Once in a while, I think that history gives us people who are gifted transformative leaders and I believe that our country has been gifted by this transformative leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu,” he said.

    Osinbajo thereafter reeled out the aspirations of the Buhari administration under the next level mantra.

    Describing it as biggest in Africa, he said the government is working to expand the Social Intervention Program (SIP).

    On health, he said the focus of the government is on health insurance as the government ‘cannot finance health care on budget alone.’

    Dignitaries at the event include outgoing Lagos State Governor, Akinwumi Ambode; his Kano State counterpart, Abdullahi Ganduje; Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello; Zamfara State Governor, Abdulaziz Yari; Mr Tinubu’s wife and a senator representing Lagos Central, Oluremi Tinubu; APC chairman Adams Oshiomole, among many others.

  • Osinbajo responds to reports of suspending ‘TraderMoni tours’ after presidential elections

    Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has reacted to report making the rounds of the alleged suspension of Trader Moni empowerment scheme.

    Reports had it that Osinbajo had suspended the scheme after presidential election and has not toured any state to promote Trader Moni in the last one month.

    Reacting, however, Osinbajo Media Aide, Laolu Akande, debunked the report.

    According to him, Trader Moni has not been suspended contrary to reports in a section of the media.

    Laolu on his Twitter page wrote: “Trader Moni, the interest/collateral free N10,000 loans for petty traders is on course. Ignore reports to the contrary.

    “In fact, since after the elections, about 30,000 new loans have been given across ten states.

    “Also since traders have started repaying, N15,000 disbursements.”

    Trader Moni is an initiative of the Federal Government, through Bank of Industry and Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme.

    The programme is part of the Federal Government social intervention aimed at funding micro business in the country through soft loans beginning from N10, 000.

  • Buhari now a poorer man than he was in 2015 – Osinbajo

    Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday night said that President Muhammadu Buhari was probably poorer than when he was elected in 2015.

    Osinbajo spoke during a dinner in honour of volunteers who canvassed for votes for the APC during the campaigns for this year’s general election, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

    He said “When I looked at his assets declaration form, I was checking it in 2015, I said to him, “Mr President, I am so much richer than you, it is an embarrassment.”

    “He said, “I am only a soldier, you are a big lawyer so you should have more money than me.”

    “I can tell you that he is perhaps; even poorer than he was in 2015 when I saw his declaration of assets form.”

    He also urged Nigerians to vote for the All Progressives Congress in the March 23 supplementary elections.

    The supplementary elections will take place in six states of Nigeria where the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared last Saturday’s gubernatorial election inconclusive.

    He said “We are still not done with the elections.

    “On the 23rd of March, we still have some outstanding states and as you know we are re-running in about six states.

    “And all of the efforts we need to put into those six states, we still need to do.

    “We can’t afford to slack off and say the job is done; we still have some things to do.”

    Recalling the experiences he had during the electioneering, Osinbajo said his encounter with Nigerians as he crisscrossed the country, campaigning for votes, showed that Nigerians are so trusting and supportive of their leaders.

    “I think that one of the main characteristics of the Nigerian is how so supportive and trusting many of our people are and they don’t ask us for too much.

    “They never really ask for anything that is impossible to do.

    “And that’s why, for many of us that went around this country, we realized the tremendous amount of work that there is to do and our capacity to do so much work.

    “What our people need, as we discovered, isn’t that much.

    “As a matter of fact, I do not know any nation where the people are so generous no matter how poor they are.

    Osinbajo said there was need for the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to connect more with the people.

    “It just struck me that what we really need to do a lot more is to connect with the people.

    “All the people need is opportunity for us to interact with them.

    “We should have a way by which everybody is involved one way or the other.

    “One of the complaints that people made about our government is that we were not communicating enough and that people did not know what had done.”

    The vice president acknowledged that the diligent communication carried out to put across the APC message in 2015 was not sustained, making the administration lose some ground to the opposition, especially in the social media.

    He said the new administration would ensure that it makes change in that regard.

    Osinbajo said that he would take up everyone who has challenged the administration on the issue with a view to getting its communication of programmes and policies better.

    Speaking at the event, the APC Woman Leader, Salamatu Eluma, commended the volunteers for believing in the vision of the President Buhari and Vice President Osinbajo and working for their re-election.

  • [BREAKING] Inconclusive polls: Osinbajo in secret meeting with Bauchi, Adamawa governors

    Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday met behind closed doors with the Bauchi State Governor, Mohammed Abubakar and the Adamawa State Governor, Jibrila Bindow at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

    The two governors are seeking second tenure on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

    But the governorship results of the March 9th elections in the two states were declared inconclusive.

    The agenda of the meeting on Thursday was not made public.

    It was still in progress at the time of filing this report.

    Details later…

  • Osinbajo wins polling unit for APC

    Osinbajo wins polling unit for APC

    The gubernatorial candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos state, Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, has been declared winner in polling unit 033 in VGC where Vice President Yemi Osinbajo voted today.

    The APC candidate polled 223 votes to defeat his main challenger, Jimi Agbaje, of the Peoples Democratic Party, who got 176 votes.

    Also in the state house of assembly votes, APC (193 votes) defeated the PDP (155 votes).

    This is a departure from the presidential and national assembly elections where the PDP won in the two polling units in VGC two weeks ago.

     

  • Abiodun shuts down Ogun as Osinbajo, Osoba campaign for APC

    Abiodun shuts down Ogun as Osinbajo, Osoba campaign for APC

    Prince Dapo Abiodun, the All Progressives Congress(APC) governorship candidate locked down Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital on Wednesday as Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, former Governor and leader of the party in the state, Chief Segun Osoba, and Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola joined him in a final campaign to ensure his victory on Saturday.

    Osinbajo, Osoba, Abiodun, Adeola and enthusiastic thousands of party members and supporters marched on Ake area of Abeokuta, in unison, chorusing continually they will vote for Abiodun and other APC candidates.

    They also noted with confidence that the APC governorship candidate and others going to the state House of Assembly will win landslide.

    Osinbajo, who spoke to the mammoth crowd, said just as they voted for him and President Muhammadu Buhari and other APC candidates to emerge winners during the Presidential and National Assembly elections, they should also come out to cast their votes in for Dapo Abiodun and APC state House of Assembly candidates.

    The Vice – President guaranteed them the Saturday’s election will be peaceful as the Federal Government had made adequate arrangement for security agents to provide effective security to lives and properties during and after the poll in the state.

    The APC leaders also used the event to receive a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in the state, Hon. Kayode Amusan and former Speaker of the state House of Assembly and Senatorial candidate of the African Democratic Congress(ADC) for Ogun Central, Titi Oseni – Gomez into the fold of APC.

    Recall that the duo had just defected to APC with thousands if their supporters to help push for the victory of Dapo Abiodun.

     

  • Re-election: Osinbanjo gives testimony at RCCG’s Holy Ghost service

    Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo on Friday testified about his re-election as the Vice-President of Nigeria at the March edition of Holy Ghost service organised by the Redeemed Christian Church of God .

    TheNewsGuru recalls that All Progressives Congress’s Muhammadu Buhari was re-elected as Nigeria’s president for another four-year term after facing down stiff competition from his closest challenger Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party.

    An excited Osinbajo gave God all the glory, praise and thanksgiving over his re-election and also recalled how God protected him after his helicopter crash landed in Kabba earlier in February 2019. “I want to thank God first for the salvation of my soul and I have two testimonies. The first Holy Ghost night on February 2nd I was here but I came quite late. After the service, I went to the see Daddy in the office and he said he was going to pay for me. My wife and I were there and we knelt for the prayer. During the prayer, he said ‘Father I want you to give my son very special protection’.

    “He prayed three times, stopped and prayed again. I was surprised as to why Daddy was praying about special protection. Later that day, A helicopter I was travelling in, crash landed at Kabba in Kogi State. All twelve of us in the helicopter survived without a crash .I want to bless the name of the lord for that mighty deliverance”

    Speaking further, he expressed his delight at being re-elected as the Vice-President of Nigeria.

    “My second testimony is that on February 23rd, I was re-elected with the president as the Vice-president of Nigeria for a second term.I want to praise the name of the lord”

    Buhari and Osinbajo had, earlier on Wednesday, received certificates of return as President-elect and Vice President-elect.

  • NFF congratulates Buhari, Osinbajo on reelection

    The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on Wednesday congratulated His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari on his re-election as President and Commander-In-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

    In the early hours of Wednesday, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), declared President Buhari duly re-elected along with his running mate, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.

    “The NFF is excited by the victory of President Buhari. We attribute all the successes that we have had in football in the past four years to His Excellency, working closely and in unison with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and other key members of his administration.

    “The government of President Muhammadu Buhari has provided a conducive environment necessary for the game of football to thrive in our dear country and we believe that the next four years will be even more fruitful for Nigerian football,” NFF President Amaju Pinnick, said.

    Pinnick, who alongside the NFF General Secretary Mohammed Sanusi, is attending the FIFA Executive Football Summit in Rome, Italy, said the various accomplishments of Nigerian Football locally and internationally in the past four years, on and off the field, could not have seen the light of day without the active support and encouragement of the Buhari Government.

    “We will always remain very grateful to His Excellency and his Government. We have received the maximum support from the administration. We will work even harder in the next four years to take Nigerian Football to even higher heights of excellence.”

    In the past four years of the Buhari administration, Nigerian Football has blossomed on and off the field, with FIFA and CAF appointments for Nigerians more than ever before. Pinnick himself became the first –ever 1st Vice President of CAF from Nigeria. He is also a Member of the Organising Committee for FIFA Competitions, and President of the organising committee for the AFCON – CAF’s flagship competition.

    Other Nigerians such as Justice Ayotunde Phillips (Ethics Committee, Adjudicatory Chamber) and Shehu Dikko (Football Stakeholders Committee) are in FIFA, while Senior Advocate A. U. Mustapha is president of the CAF Appeals Board. Samson Adamu (Director of Competitions) and Christian Emeruwa (Head of Safety and Security) have lead roles in CAF.

    Pinnick’s deputy, Seyi Akinwunmi (Youth Competitions); Dikko (Inter-Clubs and Club Licensing); Ahmed Yusuf (Technical and Development); Ibrahim Gusau (CHAN); Ifeanyi Ubah (AFCON); Obinna Ogba (Futsal and Beach Soccer); Peter Singabele (Medical) and; Chisom Ezeoke (Women’s Football) are all in CAF committees.

     

  • Elections 2019: Osinbajo, wife set to vote in Lagos

    Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and his wife, Dolapo Osinbajo, will exercise their franchise in the 2019 presidential election at the Victoria Garden City, Lagos on Saturday.

    Osinbajo, who is from Ikenne, Ogun State, lived and worked in Lagos before he became vice president in 2015.

     

    He was Attorney-general and Commissioner of justice in Lagos State from 1999 until 2007.

    Osinbajo also worked as a professor of law at the University of Lagos for many years.

    The vice president arrived in Lagos for the exercise following close of campaigns on midnight Thursday.