₦airaland Forum

Localemperor:
Its is no longer news that I have been declared insolvent. After all effort to maintain my liquidity level to no avail I decide to let her go.

Just as organization retrenched worker during periods of economic downturn in order to cut cost of operations, I sent her a massage expressing my regret and reasons.


I feed her
I pay money for hair dressing
I buy clothes
I take her out every weekend
I buy shoes
I do everything thinkable

She works and earns but I still wonder why she would want me to do everything for her. I compiled my income statement and statement of financial position for the first quarter and found out that expenditures have exceeded income and debt is on the rise.

So I wholeheartedly declared my self insolvent yesterday and decided to cut cost in order to protect my goodwill.

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Ibrahim Agboola Gambari as his new Chief of Staff.

The Chief of Staff’s position has been vacant since the demise of Abba Kyari, who lost his battle with the novel coronavirus in April, 2020.

Gambari’s appointment was announced by the Presidency on Wednesday.

Only few Nigerians know about Gambari as he was not among the candidates being tipped to take over the late Kyari’s position.


Hence, we have highlighted few things you should know about the New Chief of Staff to Buhari below:

Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, CFR (born November 24, 1944, in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria) is a Nigerian scholar and diplomat.

Gambari attended King’s College, Lagos.

He subsequently attended the London School of Economics where he obtained his B. Sc. (Economics) degree (1968) with specialisation in International Relations.

He later obtained his M.A. (1970) and Ph. D. (1974) degrees from Columbia University, New York, USA in Political Science /International Relations.

He was Minister for External Affairs between 1984 and 1985.

Gambari began his teaching career in 1969 at City University of New York before working at University of Albany.

Later, he taught at Ahmadu Bello University, in Zaria, Kaduna State, the second largest university in Africa.

From 1986 to 1989, he was Visiting Professor at three universities in Washington, D.C.: Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Georgetown University and Howard University.

He has also been a research fellow at the Brookings Institution also in Washington D.C. and a Resident Scholar at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center, the Rockefeller Foundation-run center in Italy.

He was accorded, honoris causa, the title of Doctor of Humane Letters (D.Hum.Litt.) from the University of Bridgeport.

He is a member of the Johns Hopkins University’s Society of Scholars.

Gambari was appointed by the secretary-general of United Nations Ban Ki-moon and the chairperson of the African Union Commission as Joint African Union-United Nations Special Representative for Darfur effective from 1 January 2010.

He is currently the Special Adviser on the International Compact with Iraq and Other Issues for the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Previously, he served as the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations (USG) for the Department of Political Affairs (DPA). He was appointed on June 10, 2005, and assumed the post on July 1 of that year.

On 4 March 2013, Ibrahim Gambari was named by the Kwara State Governor, AbdulFatah Ahmad, as the pioneer chancellor of the Kwara State University, making him the ceremonial head of the university.

Gambari is also co-chair of the Albright-Gambari Commission.

He was decorated with the title of Commander of the Federal Republic (CFR) by the Government of Nigeria.

On the 12th of May, 2020, Gambari was appointed the Chief of Staff to the President of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari.

This is based on a report by Yahoo News on Wednesday.Back in September, the Wall Street Journal, citing a federal court, said that the FBI had disclosed the Saudi official’s name to the lawyers for the 9/11 families in a partially declassified 2012 report.

The document included two other names, Fahad al-Thumairy, a Saudi Islamic Affairs official in Los Angeles and Omar al-Bayoumi, a suspected Saudi agent who participated in the hijacking of the plane that flew into the Pentagon.
According to the media outlet, the name of the third person is Mussaed Ahmed al-Jarrah, a Saudi Arabian Foreign Ministry official.

He worked at the Saudi Embassy in Washington in 1999-2000. Afterward, according to the embassy staff, al-Jarrah worked in the diplomatic missions in Malaysia and Morocco. The rest of the information remains classified.“This shows there is a complete government cover-up of the Saudi involvement.

“It demonstrates there was a hierarchy of command that’s coming from the Saudi Embassy to the Ministry of Islamic Affairs (in Los Angeles) to the hijackers,” Brett Eagleson, a spokesman for the 9/11 families was quoted as saying by the news portal.After contacting the US Justice Department on Monday, Yahoo News said the FBI’s declaration was withdrawn from the public docket.

On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists from Al Qaeda (banned in Russia) seized four passenger planes, crashing two of them into the World Trade Centre in New York and another into the Pentagon.

The fourth jet came down in a field in Pennsylvania after being initially directed toward Washington. Some 3,000 people from 90 countries lost their lives in the terrorist attacks. The Saudi authorities deny having any connection to the events of Sept. 11.

Enoch07:
madame, funny enough we are not complaining.

Bossontop:

Una dey whine me nii??.... So today or tomorrow sef we fit hear anoda chief of staff??....na wa oo

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AroleOduduwa2:
We can all agree that Nigeria has no leadership and lack direction. This crisis has exposed the
APC lead administration for what they are, inept and callous.

NigeriaB:
You know something!
Atleast, you can advise him to stop worrying aii

Goalnaldo:
ignis, see the children you were talking about.

seunmsg:
No need to cry. He should surrender and face prosecution for all his crimes against the good people of Nigeria.