Tinubu To Meet US, French Leaders At Paris Summit
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President Bola Tinubu will hold bilateral meetings with his counterparts, or their delegations, from France, the United States of America, Sweden and two others at the Paris Financial Pact Summit, which begins Thursday.
The Special Adviser to the President on Special Duties, Communication and Strategy, Dele Alake, who spoke with journalists in Paris, said the request for meetings with Tinubu is an apparent offshoot of his administration’s economic policies implemented in the past three weeks since assuming office.
“Quite a number of them, the US, France itself, Switzerland and two others. There are so many international financial institutions that are also willing to see him,” Alake told journalists in Paris on Wednesday.
DSS Combs Bawa’s Abuja Home
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Operatives of the Department of State Services have conducted a search of the Abuja home and office of the suspended Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa.
The PUNCH learnt that the secret police, also during the week, invited Bawa’s close associates in the EFCC for questioning, over alleged mismanagement, misappropriation and diversion of proceeds of sold assets forfeited to the EFCC.
However, when contacted on Wednesday to speak on the development, the spokesperson for the DSS, Dr Peter Afunanya, said, “No comments.”
Bawa, who is currently being held in the custody of the DSS “Yellow House,” Abuja, is being probed for alleged financial impropriety as EFCC helmsman.
President Bola Tinubu had on June 14 suspended Bawa as EFCC chairman indefinitely, following which the DSS picked him up.
The PUNCH reliably gathered that the search on his Gwarinpa home in Abuja was carried out on Saturday, in the presence of his wife and children.
An impeccable source, privy to the operation, noted that Bawa’s office was also searched on the same day by another set of DSS operatives who presented a search warrant.
Outgoing Service Chiefs Hand Over Friday
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The outgoing Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor, outgoing Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Farouk Yahaya, and his counterpart in the Nigerian Navy, Vice Admiral Awwal Gambo, will on Friday hand over to their successors.
But the outgoing Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Oludayo Amao, will hand over to his successor today (Thursday).
The President, Bola Tinubu, had on Monday announced the immediate retirement of the service chiefs.
The President also announced their replacement as Maj. Gen. Christopher Musa as the Chief of Defence Staff; Maj. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja as the Chief of Army Staff; Rear Admiral Emmanuel Ogalla as the new Chief of Naval Staff; and Air Vice Marshal Abubakar as the Chief of Air Staff.
Findings by our correspondent showed that the new service chiefs had yet to assume office two days after their appointment.
The Director, Defence Information, Brig. Gen. Tukur Gusau, told The PUNCH on Wednesday that, “The handing and taking over is on Friday. You are invited.”
Also, the Director, Army Public Relations, Brig. Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, told our correspondent that the handover process was on course.
Rivers To Recruit 10,000 Workers–Gov
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Rivers State Governor, Siminialaye Fubara, has disclosed plans by his administration to follow through with the recruitment of 10, 000 personnel into the state civil service initiated by his predecessor, Nyesom Wike.
Fubara said this when the state leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress paid him a solidarity visit at the Government House in Port Harcourt.
The governor said the recruitment was a deliberate policy of Rivers government to ensure employment for the teeming Rivers youths.
Our correspondent reports that the state had conducted a test for those who applied for the jobs.
“On the issue of employment, you are aware that the process is ongoing. Our own part is to take care of the welfare of our workers and we are doing it well,” he said.
Fubara said modalities were being put in place by the government to roll out transport palliative to cushion the high cost of transportation caused by the removal of petrol subsidy.
He explained that, already, the state’s Ministry of Transport has been directed to introduce some buses to help reduce the high cost of transportation currently faced by the people.
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