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PGF Commends President Buhari For Efficiently Managing Nigeria’s Economy

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Governors of the All Progressives Congress, APC under the aegis of the Progressives Governors Forum, PGF have commended Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari for efficiently managing the country’s economy. 

The PGF Chairman and Governor of Kebbi State, Atiku Bagudu, made the commendation in a press statement that contained resolutions of a teleconference meeting of the Progressives Governors. 

Governor Bagudu said the efficient management of the economy has led to the development in the country. 

“Forum also commends President Muhammadu Buhari for efficiently managing Nigeria’s economy, which has led to giant strides in the execution of major national projects that include the revival of railways, the 2nd Niger Bridge, Ajaokuta Steel, road projects across all parts of the country, among many others. The efficient management of the economy has strengthened the capacity of the Federal Government to control the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic” he said.

The Forum also commended the Federal Government for getting the UK Commercial court to suspend penalties against Nigeria on the $9.6 billion Process and Industrial Development (P&ID) debt.

The Governors noted several strides that the Muhammadu Buhari led government has achieved. 

“Commend the Federal Government for successfully getting the UK Commercial Court to order the stay of execution, which also suspends any penalty against Nigeria in respect of the $9.6 billion Process and Industrial Development (P&ID) debt judgement against Nigeria. The ruling, which was given by presiding judge Rose Cranston of the Royal Courts of Justice Strand, London is a victory for all Nigerians. Progressive Governors in particular commend Nigeria’s legal team led by the Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami SAN;

“Applaud Nigeria’s certification by World Health Organisation (WHO) as a polio-free country and restate the commitment of all Progressive Governors to continue to work with Federal Government for the eradication of all communicable diseases in the country;

“Congratulate the Federal Government for the re-election of Dr. Akinwumi Adesina as President of the African Development Bank for a second term. Forum also notes with much appreciation and commendation to the Federal Government’s nomination of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Eweala for the position of Director-General of the World Trade Organisation”

Also on party matters, the forum said the setting up of the APC, Executive and Legislative Tripartite Consultative Committee would help to resolve APC challenges and develop democracy.

Former Minister’s Exit From Party Makes No Difference – Taraba APC

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The Taraba chapter of Nigeria’s governing party, the All Progressives Congress, APC has said that the exit of the former Minister of Women Affairs, Hajia Aisha Alhassan, from the party made no difference. 

The APC Taraba state Chairman, Mr. Ibrahim El-Sudi, said this while speaking to journalists at the APC National Secretariat in Abuja shortly after a meeting with the Chairman of the party’s Caretaker Committee and Extraordinary Convention, Mai Mala Buni.

He said that Alhassan only polled 16,000 votes when she left APC to contest election in another party, while the APC candidate polled over 340,000 votes.

“So, her movement has not shaken APC in Taraba. It is in the heart of Taraba people that they want APC and they will continue to support APC” he said.

He added that he and delegation of Taraba SPC members visited the Caretaker Chairman to seek solutions to the challenges they are experiencing in the state.

“We also brought the problems of Taraba to the committee to look into them, with a view to solving them.

“After addressing the chairman and the committee, we were assured that they would look into our problem in order to solve the issues that are hanging in the air,” he said.

Mr. El-Sudi expressed confidence in the ability of the committee to address the Taraba state issue.

“The chairman is a tested and trusted leader; he was a party secretary in his state.

“He knows the plethora of problems facing the party and he has already taken steps toward solving most of them,” El-Sudi said.

NGEA To Drive Digital Transformation – DG NITDA

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The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has said that implementation of the Nigeria Government Enterprise Architecture (NGEA) by the Agency is to set directions for Government digital transformation in Nigeria.

READ ALSO: Africa has great potentials to drive Digital Economy – NITDA

The Director General of NITDA, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi who disclosed this at 12th ISACA Annual Conference said NGEA is also used as a standard tool for executing a digital transformation strategy.

Abdullahi who delivered Keynote Address with the theme: “Accelerating Digital Transformation: The Nigerian Trends said NITDA implemented the Nigeria Government Enterprise Architecture framework to drive short, medium, and long term digital transformational impact.

The Director General noted that the framework provides direction enabling other government parastatals to easily, quickly, and conveniently execute digital initiatives. It also reduces the complexity associated with digital transformation and accelerates adoption across the board.

“The framework we designed at NITDA is in line with the digital transformation foundation laid by President Muhammadu Buhari. In October 2019, the president renamed and expanded the mandate of our Ministry to cover Digital Economy, Abdullahi explained

He further stated that, “In November the same year, 2019,the president unveiled National Digital Economy Policy for Digital Nigeria, and he directed my Minister Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, to implement the policy. On the same day, the president also directed all Federal Public Institutions to set up a Digital Transformation Technical Working Group and on 27th August this year, the Honorable Minister of communications and digital economy inaugurated the first set of 100 Federal Public Institutions’ digital transformation working group.

The idea behind setting the technical working group is to consolidate on the achievements recorded under some of our initiatives such as the Nigeria e-Government Master Plan (NeGMP), Nigeria e-Government Interoperability Framework (Ne-GIF) and Nigeria Government Enterprise Architecture (NGEA), The NITDA Boss stated.

According to him, “the framework has two value propositions. Firstly to promote One Government digital service and secondly, to guarantees the autonomy of each Federal Public Institutions (FPIs) to make individual decisions around business processes, digital services, and applications.

“Furthermore, the framework has seven layers, namely Business, Service, Data, Application, IT Infrastructure, Security, and Performance, which centered around people and processes. Each layer has high-level expectations for FPIs and as well as specifies best practices, standards, tools, reference models and recommendations that will help FPIs achieve their value propositions and meet citizens’ expectations for government digital services”.

Abdullahi maintained that with the current reality of COVID-19, digital transformation strategy focuses more on how to deliver digital service to Nigerians. Therefore, the strategy depends on existing capabilities as a country to achieve operational excellence in a digital economy.

“Having understood how important digital capabilities are in driving digital transformation, we have embarked on upskilling and reskilling Nigerians with appropriate knowledge and skills that the necessary building blocks for digital transformation. We have trained over 26,000 Nigerians this year alone on different digital skills to help them understand and embrace digital transformation.

In addition to the capacity building, we have provided thousands of digital tools to Nigerians raging from artisan toolbox set, smart mobile devices, laptops to building Community training centers, IT hubs, Innovation, and incubation hubs and center of excellence for emerging technologies,” He added.

Electricity, Petrol Price Increase: Government Reschedules Meeting With Labour Unions

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A meeting between the federal government and labour unions to discuss the hike in petroleum prices and electricity tariff has been moved to Tuesday.

The government announced the meeting to avert the planned strike by labour unions and other civil society organisations over the price increases.

The Nation newspaper reportedthat President Muhammadu Buhari Friday directed the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, to dialogue with the labour unions on September 12.

But the spokesperson of the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Charles Akpan, in a phone interview said:

“The meeting has been moved to Tuesday, September 15.”

He said the meeting was moved to Tuesday to accommodate all participants.

The venue is Banquet Hall of Presidential Villa. You know all parties that will be involved in the negotiation must be present,” he said.

Meanwhile, the President of Trade Union Council, Quadri Olaleye, in a phone interview with PREMIUM TIMES said the meeting could not hold on Saturday because the unions were not properly informed: “and we don’t attend such impromptu meetings.”

“We only read about the meeting in the media but now we have been properly communicated to so the meeting is now 10 a.m. on Tuesday,” he said.

Nigerian Army Will Be Ruthless With Bandits, Others – Army Chief

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The Nigerian Army has extended its operation to curb the activities of bandits, cattle rustlers, gunrunners, and other criminals in the North-West with a promise to go tough on the outlaws.

Chief of Army Staff Lt. General Nigerian Army announced this on Saturday in Faskari, Katsina State while speaking to journalists from the state and neighbouring Zamfara.

“Be rest assured that the troops are determined to deal decisively with any criminal element not only in the Northwest but also across the country,” he said.

‘Operation Sahel Sanity’, launched amid an upsurge in crime particularly the activities of bandits, rustlers, kidnappers, and gunrunners, will now continue until December.

The army boss, however, believes determination on the part of the army alone will not be enough to stop the criminal activities which have resulted in the loss of scores of lives in the region and sparked outrage over time.

To him, it would take more support from the people of the region who he said had already provided tremendous support for the army – leading to the killing of hundreds of bandits and arrest of hundreds more including their allies.

“I already said it that these people don’t come from the skies they are within us and most of the arrests that have been made in the towns and villages, they have relations in those communities and they visit them,” he said.

“As soon as we stop shielding these criminals, the sooner we will get the insecurity resolved in all our societies. We have so far improved on our intelligence gathering.”

In order to expose such criminals, Buratai expects people to disregard their relationship with them “no matter how tight and close” the relationship may be.

“Otherwise these criminals will one day turn against them,” he warned.

Since the army launched Operation Sahel Sanity it has announced successes several times and the army boss is impressed with the progress made so far.

His visit to Katsina is to access the progress of the operation, especially in Katsina and Zamfara states where the Special Army Super Camp is located, from where the operation is coordinated.

“I am impressed with the brief I had this afternoon with the level of commitment, dedication, and loyalty of the troops,” he said.

Under the operation, the army boss added, “The troops have shown courage and determination to resolve the security challenge that has bedevilled the region.

“They tamed to the barest minimum, the issues of kidnapping, cattle Rustling, armed banditry, and gunrunning across the border among others.”

He, however, does not want the army to slow down and decided to extend the operation to ensure that “the desired result is achieved”.

Apart from acknowledging the troops and the people of the region for their support so far, Buratai praised members of the press in Katsina and Zamfara states.

“Their reportage, commentaries, and general assessment have been quite encouraging,” he said.

On Saturday, September 5, 2020, that army announced that troops of Operation Sahel Sanity had over two months killed 100 armed bandits, arrested 148 of them, and recovered about 4,000 cattle.

In addition to that, a total of 3,984 cows, 1,627 sheep/rams, and three camels were recovered while 148 suspected bandits were arrested along with 315 illegal armed miners.

Only JSS3, SS2 Students Will Resume September 21 – Lagos Government

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The Lagos State Government has announced that only JSS3 and SS2 students will be allowed to resume school on Monday, September 21, 2020.

The Commissioner for Education in Lagos State, Folashade Adefisayo disclosed this in a statement on Sunday through the Head, Public Affairs, Ministry of Education, Kayode Abayomi while revealing plans for a new 2020/2021 Academic Session resumption for public and private schools.

She said that the state would adopt a phased approach in opening public schools, thereby congratulating the SS3 students for successfully completing their WASSCE exams and urge them to stay safe as they wait for their results.

 Public Schools

Mrs. Adefisayo stated that the phased approach to opening will enable public schools to meet COVID-19 social distance rules and safety protocols which will help watch the behaviour of the pandemic as “we gradually open up our schools.

“The present JSS3 and SS2 students in public schools in the state are to resume classes from Monday, 21st of September, 2020”.

READ ALSO: Reopening Of Lagos Schools Will Be In Phases – Govt

She explained that the resumption will permit the present JSS3 students who are already in an exiting class to revise and get adequately prepared for their forthcoming Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) organized by the Lagos State Examination Board and scheduled between Tuesday, 6th and Monday, 12th of October, 2020.

According to her, the resumption will also afford the present SS2 students an opportunity to prepare effectively for their transition to SS3. The scheduled dates and venues for Entrance Examination into Lagos State Model Colleges will soon be announced by the State Examination Board.

The commissioner assured parents that announcements for opening the other classes will occur as soon as the state is certain of their safety.

In the meantime, “the unopened classes in public schools will continue their lessons on our various distance learning platforms (Online platform, radio, television and WhatsApp) while the next phase for physical resumption will be announced in due course”.

Private Schools

For private schools, Mrs Adefisayo also announced that private primary and secondary schools in the state are allowed to resume on Monday, September 21, 2020.

She added that the State Government strongly recommends and encourages school owners to put safety first and open in phases similar to the plans for public schools.

The phased opening includes strategies for staggered resumption in the mornings, classes on alternate days during the week, and teaching through various distance learning methods.

“Schools must also comply with safety protocols and hygiene guidelines as instructed by the State Government through the Office of Education Quality Assurance (OEQA).

“The Office of Education Quality Assurance will continue to monitor and evaluate Schools’ preparedness.

“Please note that pre-primary classes and schools in both public and private schools will remain closed until further announcements are made”, she emphasised.

The commissioner reminded schools that the pandemic is still around and so in all situations ensure the safety of children, teachers, and parents as a whole the first priority.

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