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Aso Rock: CSO Overrules ADC On DSS' Quit Order

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<b>President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief Security Officer, Abdulrahman Mani, has revoked the order by the Aide-De-Camp to the President, Lt.-Col. Lawal Abubakar, removing operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) from giving Buhari close body protection.</b></div>
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Mani, in a memo countermanding the ADC’s order, said the DSS operatives should disregard the directive by Abubakar. He said the order was a misrepresentation of Buhari’s directive.</div>
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Buhari’s ADC had on Wednesday last week issued a memo redeploying the DSS officials from 10 beats that they had hitherto manned inside the Presidential villa, explaining that the decision to strip the DSS officials of their traditional roles was part of efforts to enhance general security within the villa.</div>
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He also claimed that the development was necessitated by “recent events,” which he did not disclose.</div>
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The ADC consequently directed personnel of the Armed Forces and the Nigeria Police to take over the DSS officials’ duties of providing “close/immediate protection” for the President with immediate effect.</div>
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But in a June 26, 2015, memo by the CSO, a copy of which was obtained by our correspondent on Sunday, Mani directed the DSS officials to disregard the ADC’s order, saying the duties being performed by the DSS personnel in the Presidential villa were backed by relevant statutes and gazetted instruments.</div>
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These roles, he added, included close body protection of the President in line with standard operational procedures and international best practices.</div>
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He cited Section 2(I )(ii) of Instrument No.SSS 1 of May 23, 1999 made pursuant to Section 6 of the National Security Agencies Decree of 1986, which has been re-enacted as Section 6 of NSA Act CAP N74 LFN 2004.</div>
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He said the law empowered personnel of the DSS to provide protective security for designated principal government functionaries.</div>
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The functionaries, he said, included but not limited to the President and Vice President as well as members of their immediate families.</div>
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He said the law also mandates the DSS to provide protective security for sensitive installations such as the Presidential Villa and visiting foreign dignitaries.</div>
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The CSO said it was for that reason that personnel of the DSS near the President were carefully selected and properly trained and that background checks were constantly carried out on them to confirm their suitability and loyalty.</div>
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Mani said the issues raised in the ADC’s memo suggested that he ventured into an unfamiliar terrain.</div>
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The CSO’s memo read, “In fact, the issues raised in the aforementioned (ADC’s) circular tend to suggest that the author may have ventured into a not-too-familiar terrain.</div>
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“The extant practice, the world over, is that VIP protection, which is a specialised field, is usually handled by the Secret Service, under whatever nomenclature.</div>
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“They usually constitute the inner core security ring around every principal. The Police and the military by training and mandate are often required to provide secondary and tertiary security cordons around venues and routes.</div>
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“However, all other security agencies, including the army, the police and others, also have their roles to play. It is on this note that heads of all security agencies currently in the Presidential Villa and their subordinates are enjoined to key into the existing command and control structure. They are to work in harmony with each other in full and strict compliance with the demands of their statutorily prescribed responsibilities.</div>
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“Meanwhile, joint training programmes and other incentives will be worked out in the days ahead to ensure that all security personnel at the Presidential Villa are properly educated to understand their statutory roles and responsibilities.</div>
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“This is with a view to avoiding obvious grandstanding, overzealousness, limited knowledge or outright display of ignorance in future.”</div>
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Mani asked all the unit and departmental heads to bring the content of his memo to the attention of all personnel for compliance.</div>
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He copied the National Security Adviser; the Chief of Defence Staff and the Director-General of DSS.</div>
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A source however told our correspondent on Sunday that although the CSO’s directive had been widely circulated, it has yet to take effect as the military men drafted to replace the DSS officials were still at their beats.</div>
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The source however introduced another dimension when he blamed a top DSS official in the Presidential Villa for the confrontation.</div>
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He claimed that trouble started when the official ordered that soldiers should be blocked from residence reception.</div>
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Infuriated by that action, he said the soldiers contacted the ADC who became angry and vowed to report to the President.</div>
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“Before that incident, the soldiers have been cooperative and well-behaved. The situation we find ourselves is painful but it is also avoidable,” the source added.</div>
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A security expert, Mike Ejiofor, had told our correspondent in an interview on Friday that the ADC’s directive could not stand because it could not be backed by law.</div>
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The Presidency had in a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, on Wednesday, said Buhari had not given any order for the expulsion of the DSS officials from the Presidential Villa.</div>
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Adesina however admitted that a reorganisation of security at the seat of power was underway.</div>
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Aso Rock: CSO Overrules ADC On DSS' Quit Order

President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief Security Officer, Abdulrahman Mani, has revoked the order by the Aide-De-Camp to the President, Lt.-Col. Lawal Abubakar, removing operatives of the Department of St…

29 Jun 2015

OMG!!! See How Smugglers Almost Killed This Journalist

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<b>The Executive publisher of <i>Prime Magazine</i>, a Badagry based publication, Yomi Olomofe was on Thursday June 25th beaten to a pulp by hoodlums suspected to be smugglers for allegedly reporting their illicit activities in Badagry, Lagos state.</b></div>
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Narrating his ordeal to <b><i>Vanguard</i></b>, Mr Olomofe said:</div>
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I was with another colleague of mine on a visit to the command, when some smugglers, who claimed that journalists have been writing negative stories about them, pounced on me. While beating me, they threatened to kill me so as to serve as deterrent to journalists writing stories about them. I was there with the correspondent of <i>Tide Newspaper,</i> thank God a friend from Rotary Club came to take me away, I would have been dead, because I was left there almost lifeless. These hoodlums are not unknown. They are known to everybody, but they are above the law. They even told me that they have killed many people and nothing happened, he said.</blockquote>
You'll agree this is one of the hazards of this job! OMG!!! How on earth will some people think they are above the law.<br />
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The Executive publisher of Prime Magazine, a Badagry based publication, Yomi Olomofe was on Thursday June 25th beaten to a pulp by hoodlums suspected to be smugglers for allegedly reporting their ill…

29 Jun 2015

Buhari Inaugurates National Economic Council

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<b>President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday inaugurated the National Economic Council led by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.</b></div>
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The council, which has the 36 state governors and the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria as members, is saddled with the responsibility of advising the President on economic affairs of the country.</div>
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Buhari tasked members to come up with ways of liquidating outstanding salaries and wages across the country.</div>
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He restated his administration’s commitment to tackling insecurity, corruption and other social vices.</div>
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday inaugurated the National Economic Council led by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. The council, which has the 36 state governors and the Governor of Central Bank of N…

29 Jun 2015

[OPINION]: Wike The Wicked - By Tola Adeniyi

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<b>Nobody expected it to be so soon. Hardly had Barrister Nyesom Wike taken office as Governor of oil-rich Rivers state that his people were reported to have given him a new alias. Words came from some indigenes of the state that their newly sworn in governor is now called <i>Wike the Wicked</i>. I thought it was a joke until my attention was drawn to many activities the governor had reeled out since assuming office that were believed could only have emanated from a sadistic mind!</b></div>
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First was the very crude and uncivilized manner the governor was reported to have pursued the issue of property recovery from some members of the immediate past government in the state. All the newspapers and not a few television stations reported the ugly scene of the invasion of the residence of the state’s former Commissioner of Information.</div>
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With close to a battalion of heavily armed police men and sundry security operatives, the peace of the home of the said commissioner was rudely assaulted by heavy forklifts and pay-loaders to physically ‘arrest’ and impound vehicles alleged to be government property. The poor woman ex-commissioner was not at home when the invaders arrived, and without a Warrant, brutishly carted away two vehicles.</div>
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The question on the lips of most impartial observers was, ‘why the show of such quantum of naked power?’ If government had any reason to suspect that some vehicles were in the possession of unauthorised persons or quarters, a more decent way to recover such property was to invite the possessor to explain why the vehicles or any government property should be in their possession. A simple procedure of courtesy.</div>
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It bothers on brigandage and rough-neckedness for a man occupying exalted office of the Chief Executive of a state to get associated in whatever form with such act.</div>
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Almost in a rampage, a mass sack of 344 lecturers and others employed at the Rivers State Polytechnic, Bori since September, 2014 by the state’s immediate past administration led by Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi has also been reported.</div>
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So also was the disbandment of the Rivers State Road Traffic Management Authority (TIMA-RIV) and other actions bordering on witch–hunt and outright victimization which have made the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) to believe that the new governor of the state, Barrister Nyesom Wike, was out to play politics of vendetta. The Congress posited that such actions would not be in tandem with what the nation in general and Rivers State in particular needed at the moment.</div>
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The General Manager of the State Television has also been booted out in a manner that really outraged the people of the state. The woman head of the station was believed to be a thorough professional who discharged her duties with the best ethics of her calling. Her only offence as narrated by people in the state was that she served under Wike’s purported enemies.</div>
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Every public officer in the state now lives in fear and trepidation that the rampaging axe of the Wicked may descend on their neck any time soon!</div>
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Matters have now come to a head to warrant non-indigenes in Rivers State under the aegis of Endangered Non Indigenes Forum in Rivers State (EINFRS) to cry out to President Muhammadu Buhari, pleading with him to come to their rescue following an alleged threat by Governor Nyesom Wike to crack down on them as part of his determination to deal ruthlessly with associates and loyalties of the immediate past government.</div>
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The concern of this writer is not whether Wike has a right to settle scores with his perceived political enemies. Politicians have their own peculiar way of dealing with each other. And Nigerian politicians are a special breed when it comes to extremisms.</div>
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The Rivers state has probably not known peace for almost 3 years now. The immediate past governments at the Federal and state levels flexed muscles to no end, and the fall-out of the maddening drama may be the visit of wickedness and high-handedness on the losers in the long-drawn battle.</div>
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This scenario does not however justify unmitigated wickedness and sadistic display of power. Even in armed conflict, winners are still expected to be civil to their victims. There is a minimum level of human decency expected in all human relationships. And people who wield temporary and ephemeral power are reminded to always bear in mind that power is transient.</div>
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It does not speak well of any one in power to behave as if drunk and intoxicated. It is the height of insensitivity and cruelty for some one in authority to derive joy in inflicting pain on those under his authority.</div>
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Governor Wike surely will not like to be remembered as a wicked, vengeful and sadistic governor. And the earlier he calls his overzealous aides to order the better for the reputation he would like to carve for himself and be remembered by. ‘Wike the Wicked’ should not be allowed to stick.</div>
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After all, whatever be the case, he has triumphed, so to say. He is currently the governor unless the tribunal decides otherwise. He should therefore have no cause or reason to be vindictive or allow people to run away with a name his parents did not give him.</div>
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It is also not too late in the day to make amends. If vehicles needed to be recovered, simple, decent procedure can still be followed. If appointments needed be terminated, there are better and less painful ways to go about it. But a situation where a leader deliberately uses or mi-uses power to oppress or victimise or inflict pain on others is certainly not acceptable.</div>
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I don’t think I want that alias to stick. And I don’t want the Yoruba speaking people to dub him ‘Wike weke-weke’!</div>
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[OPINION]: Wike The Wicked - By Tola Adeniyi

Nobody expected it to be so soon. Hardly had Barrister Nyesom Wike taken office as Governor of oil-rich Rivers state that his people were reported to have given him a new alias. Words came from some…

29 Jun 2015

[REVEALED!!!] Buhari Won't Name Ministers Until September

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<b>For those that are eager to hear President Muhammadu Buhari name his cabinet members, they will have to tarry awhile because the President’s cabinet members may not be announced until the end of August or early September.</b></div>
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A source very close to the President confided in <i><b>The PUNCH </b></i>on Sunday that Buhari would not form any cabinet until the “rot left behind by the past administration” is cleared.</div>
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“Mr. President is reluctant to build on a rotten foundation he inherited from the Peoples Democratic Party administration. You cannot even begin to imagine the situation we have met on the ground; almost everything is in a state of decay.</div>
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“There is absolutely no way the new government can hope to achieve anything long-lasting without first building a new foundation,” the source said.</div>
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The source added that clearing the PDP rot was not a month’s job and said those that had been heckling the President over lack of cabinet were politicians looking for jobs.</div>
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“They have tried doing it other ways and those haven’t worked. They only want their cronies appointed to ministerial posts anyhow and they are fuelling the agitation,” the source said.</div>
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He also said Buhari was taking his time to know the ministries that would survive government’s planned pruning and the desire to cut cost of governance.</div>
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The source likened President Buhari’s plan of action to that of a doctor, who first has to break a poorly set bone afresh, before resetting it to allow for smooth and proper growth.</div>
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Over the past week, Buhari has come under criticism because he had yet to appoint his cabinet members, despite having more than three months since his election, including a month since his inauguration.</div>
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The President was sworn in on May 29, exactly one month ago today.</div>
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Responding to the criticism, the source pointed out that it would be impossible to appoint ministers to portfolios without first knowing which portfolios exist and which will be abolished.</div>
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He said, “The President plans to cut down the number of ministries and parastatals. He wants to cut down the cost of running government. He wants to make sure that all the loopholes that enable corruption to thrive are blocked. All these are procedures that require time and careful planning. You cannot do it in a rush.</div>
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“Remember that he has to make sure that all this is done without any job losses or mass retrenchments. All this is not a day’s or one-month job.”</div>
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He added that Buhari could not have realistically commenced the process of forming a cabinet without first receiving the full report of the transition committee and ascertaining exactly the situation his government faced.</div>
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The source also denied news reports which stated that President Buhari’s lack of cabinet appointments had grounded the government, insisting that civil servants had been supervising the day-to-day running of ministries and that Permanent Secretaries of the various ministries all have full access to the President.</div>
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The source concluded by referring to the current crisis in the National Assembly as one more reason why forming a cabinet would be impossible until further notice.</div>
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“Look at how they are fighting among themselves. The Senate has now adjourned till July 21. That means no one to scrutinise or approve any ministerial list until the end of July,” he submitted.</div>
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But when reminded that the Senate had agreed to reconvene to consider the President’s ministerial nominees as soon as such list was ready, the source asked our correspondent to await the President’s intervention in the crisis between the party and the National Assembly. </div>
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“The President wants to walk his talk on stable politics and being a leader for all. He has a plan for the National Assembly,” he said.</div>
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When contacted on Sunday, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, said the information at the disposal of<i> The PUNCH </i>was “not far from the truth.”</div>
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“This narrative is the nearest to the truth than all others that are being peddled around. It is not far from the truth,” Shehu said.</div>
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Meanwhile, our correspondents learnt in Abuja on Sunday that Buhari would adopt the recommendation of the Ahmed Joda-led transition committee of the All Progressives Congress to prune down the number of ministries to 19.</div>
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<i>The PUNCH </i>learnt that the President would appoint 19 senior ministers and 17 ministers of state as recommended by the Joda committee.</div>
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It was also learnt that besides adopting the recommendation, the administration would place emphasis on the appointment of technocrats to man some ministries, including education, finance, works, housing and environment</div>
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The 18-man committee inaugurated on April 27, 2015 to prepare the ground for Buhari’s inauguration on May 29, 2015 submitted its report on June 12.</div>
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There were 28 ministries and corresponding number of ministers manning them under the immediate past administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.</div>
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The Jonathan administration also appointed 14 ministers of state.</div>
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A reliable source, who is familiar with the activities of the new administration, said the President, no doubt, had accepted and had been working on the recommendations of the Joda committee on the number of ministries to remain.</div>
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The source, who did not want to be named as he was not authorised to speak on the issue, said though the President had not made his proposed ministerial list open, the President had not hidden it from top presidency officers, including the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, that “the President will be guided by the Joda committee’s report.”</div>
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The source said, “I can confirm that the President is going to work with the recommendation of the Joda committee, which means he will operate only 19 ministries to be manned by 19 ministers.</div>
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“There will also be 17 ministers of state so that the President will not run afoul of constitutional requirement, which expects him to appoint ministers from all the 36 states of the federation.</div>
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“Top officers in the Presidency, including Vice President Osinbajo, are aware that President Buhari is going to adopt the 19-ministry recommendation.”</div>
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The Joda-led committee had recommended that the new Buhari administration should operate only 19 ministries in the spirit of cutting down the cost of governance.</div>
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The committee recommended that the President should appoint only 19 senior ministers and 17 ministers of state to fulfil the constitutional requirement that the ministers constituting the Federal Executive Council must be drawn from the 36 states of the federation.</div>
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The Joda committee recommended 19 ministries, some of which would be products of merging of some of the existing ministries.</div>
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Those to be retained in their present form are just nine- Trade, Industry and investment; Education; Defence; Federal Capital Territory; Labour and Employment; Finance; Justice; Foreign Affairs; and Budget and National Planning.</div>
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Others would either me merged or subsumed under others.</div>
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