Does anybody know the name of the tune that was playing at the 3:29 minute mark in this video (when Seyni Kountche was inspecting the troops)? I've been searching for the name of that song for a very long time.
I'm referring to the Hausa song, not Syncro System.
The Buhari Regime had closed all Nigeria's land borders and this made life difficult in Niger. Therefore, the Nigerien head of state, General Seyni Kountche, visited Nigeria to meet with General Buhari. He was received at the Murtala Muhammad Airport by General Buhari and Dr Ibrahim Gambari.
Dr Gambari welcomes Seyni Kountche to Nigeria at the 1:21 minute mark.
General Buhari introduces Dr Gambari at the Council Chambers of State House, Dodan Barracks at the 6:12 minute mark.
There are 2 people in that video that served in almost every government in Nigeria from 1984 until the 2000s.
General Buhari introduced them as, "the external affairs minister, Dr Ibrahim Gambari" and "the minister of mines, power and steel, Alhaji Rilwanu Lukman".
Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari served as minister of external affairs in the Buhari administration from 1984-1985 (my window at Broad Street was opposite his office ). He then became Nigeria's permanent representative to the United Nations and then ambassador to the United Nations during the administration of President Ibrahim Babangida. He was a professor of international relations at several American universities while he was at the UN.
Professor Gambari also served as Nigeria's ambassador at the UN during the regime of General Sani Abacha and also during the administration of General Abdulsalam Abubakar.
Professor Wole Soyinka famously told General Abubakar (in the presence of Professor Gambari) that he was going to sue the Nigerian Government because of statements that Professor Gambari made about him in New York (I can't remember what the statements were, but I think it had something to do with the strange woman that claimed that she was Soyinka's wife).
Professor Gambari took up various positions at the United Nations in the 2000s. If I remember correctly, he served as the secretary general's special representative on Dafur and later as the secretary general's special representative on Iraq. He also later served as the United Nations under secretary general for political affairs.
Professor Gambari's brother, Alhaji Sulu Kolapo Gambari (a former Appeal Court judge) is the current Emir of Ilorin.
Alhaji Rilwanu Lukman served as the minister of mines, power and steel from 1984-1985 during the administration of General Muhammadu Buhari. He served as the minister of petroleum resources between 1986 and 1990 during the administration of President Ibrahim Babangida. Babangida briefly made him the minister of foreign affairs early in 1990, but he brought him back to the position of petroleum minister a few months later.
Alhaji Lukman served as chairman of the board of NEPA during the administration of General Sani Abacha. However, he soon had a clash with Abacha and in 1995 he was elected as the secretary general of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Basically, Rilwanu Lukman was in exile as OPEC secretary general from 1995 until Abacha's death. (He had previously served several terms as OPEC president in the 1980s, when he was Nigeria's minister of petroleum resources.
President Olusegun Obasanjo made Rilwanu Lukman his special adviser on petroleum affairs in the year 2000. Obasanjo was both president and minister of petroleum affairs at that time. Obasanjo sacked him c2003 when Alhaji Lukman clashed with the group managing director of the NNPC, Mr Jackson Gaius Obaseki (Obaseki felt that Lukman was behaving as if he was the petroleum minister, when Obasanjo was actually the petroleum minister).
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua appointed Alhaji Lukman as his special adviser on petroleum resources in 2007. In 2008, President Yar'Adua appointed Rilwanu Lukman as his minister of petroleum resources.
Alhaji Rilwanu Lukman left office in 2010 when President Goodluck Jonathan dissolved the cabinet.
At a point I started thinking of Rilwanu Lukman as Nigeria's version of Sheikh Yamani. Sheikh Yamani was Saudi Arabia's oil minister and he also held several positions at OPEC. He was a familiar face at OPEC meetings for almost 30 years.
He died in 2014.
Picture 1) Alhaji Rilwanu Lukman.
Picture 2) Professor Ibrahim Gambari
Picture 3) Professor Gambari and General Joe Garba c1990 (Nigeria was a member of the Security Council at that time and General Garba was president of the UN General Assembly).
Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, CFR (born November 24, 1944, in Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria) is a Nigerian scholar and diplomat. He was Minister for External Affairs between 1984 and 1985. Gambari has been 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 March 4, 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 who presides over convocations to award degrees and diplomas and also supports the vision and mission of the university in all respects, including fundraising, social, economic and academic goals. As a university that continues to gain credence as a community development university with world class standards, the selection of Gambari is expected to give the institution additional international boost and recognition. Gambari is also co-chair of the Albright-Gambari Commission.
Education 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.
Academic career 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. He was decorated with the title of Commander of the Federal Republic (CFR) by the Government of Nigeria.
His brother, Alhaji Ibrahim Kolapo Sulu Gambari, is the Emir of Ilorin.
In 1990 when the Gulf Crisis was being discussed at the UN, 2 of the 3 officials at the high table were from Nigeria. General Joe Garba was the president of the UN General Assembly at the time and Professor Gambari was also on the high table. Below is a picture of Professor Gambari and General Garba.
The Lagos State Government has shut down a nightclub and a hotel in Badagry for contravening the Covid 19 guidelines. This was made known by the chief press secretary to the Lagos State governor, Mr Gboyega Akosile.
Gboyega Akosile @gboyegaakosile
Two facilities in Badagry West LCDA of Lagos State have been shut down for contravening new guidelines issued by the government to operators of hotels, clubs and other entertainment outfits in the State.
Speaking on the closure of Maggi Hotel, and Tambari Theatre Art (Night Club), the Special Adviser to the Governor on Tourism, Arts and Culture, Mr. Solomon Bonu, stated that the facilities were shut for violating and contravening the order of the State government.
He said, "It was also discovered that there is a high level of immorality going on in these places. The Night Club has become home for strippers, drug barons and all sorts of mischief".
The Special Adviser expressed displeasure with the unlawful practices by the management of the two facilities, stressing that the guidelines issued by the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture were not followed in spite of several advocacies by the State government.
Bonu disclosed further that legal action will be instituted against the owners of the hotel and night club to ensure appropriate sanctions are meted out.
While noting that the exercise of monitoring the level of compliance across the State continues, the Special Adviser pleaded with residents to provide useful information that would assist in discovering other hotels and clubhouses still operating in different parts of Lagos.
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). He then became Nigeria's permanent representative to the United Nations and then ambassador to the United Nations during the administration of President Ibrahim Babangida. He was a professor of international relations at several American universities while he was at the UN.