Tag: Restructuring
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Restructuring: PRONACO set to reconvene its peoples confab for Nigeria
…adopts 2007 Peoples’ draft Constitution as Confab Proposal Pro National Conference Organization, PRONACO, a Pan Nigerian Movement initiated under the leadership of Late Chief Anthony Enahoro and Prof Wole Soyinka to resolve Nigerian perennial Constitutional challenges, has announced plans to reconvene its adjourned National Confab following the persistence of the logjam over the Restructuring of…
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Nigeria must restructure to create balance —Tinubu
A national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has said restructuring will bring much needed balance to the country. The former Lagos State governor, however, said he was against the split-up of the country. Tinubu’s assertion followed repeated pronouncements by President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo that Nigeria’s unity is…
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PDP to boycott APC’s hearing on restructuring
The Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has said it would not participate in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) public hearing on restructuring. The PDP argued that the decision was diversionary and a delay tactics. Speaking with newsmen yesterday at the party’s headquarters in Abuja, shortly after a delegation from China visited the leadership of the…
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Photos: Meeting of Northern Governors committee on restructuring
The Northern Governors committee on restructuring held its inaugural meeting on Wednesday in Kaduna. See photos below: L-R: Governors Umar Tanko Almakura of Nassarawa State, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto and Deputy Governor of Plateau State, Professor Sonni Tyoden at the inaugural meeting of Northern Governors Forum/Norther Traditional Leaders Council’s committee on restructuring of Nigerian…
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Wanted: A restructuring of minds, by Femi Adesina
Hearing some Nigerians speak (whether based at home or in the Diaspora) you discern that they are “in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.” They spew out things that give them away as “whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones.” What happened to…
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Yoruba elders meet in Ibadan, insist on restructuring
The Yoruba elders have insisted that Nigeria must return to a proper federation as obtained in the 1960 and 1963 constitutions to ensure peace and meaningful development. They made this view known at the Yoruba summit held in Ibadan on Thursday, which attracted Yoruba leaders, governors, parliamentarians, social cultural groups, professional bodies, market leaders and…
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The APC, PDP fight over ‘ownership’ of restructuring, by Ehichioya Ezomon
By Ehichioya Ezomon It looks ludicrous, even childish that the two leading political parties in Nigeria – All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) – would be fighting over who owns “restructuring” of the country, as an item in their agenda for the people. There shouldn’t be any skirmish if the parties…
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We don’t need restructuring in Nigeria – Obasanjo
Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo has said the agitations for restructuring in almost every region of the country is uncalled for. The former Nigerian leader insisted that what the country needs at the moment is restrucuturing of the mind to towards achieving a greater nation. He made his stance known on the sidelines of the African…
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Restructuring: Ajimobi advocates resource control, fiscal discipline
As the debate for the restructuring of the country rages, Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has called on the Federal Government to surrender the control and management of revenue accruing from natural resources to the owner states. The governor canvassed the position as a panelist at the ongoing 57th Annual General Conference of the…
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South West leaders to hold grand rally on restructuring on Sept 7
South West leaders met in Lagos on Sunday to unfold plans for an upcoming Yoruba “Grand Rally on Restructuring”. Addressing newsmen after the meeting, the Chairman, Organising Committee for the Rally, Dr Kunle Olajide, said that the rally, scheduled to hold in Ibadan on Sept. 7, would be a one-agenda-congress on restructuring. He said: “This…