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ItsMeAboki:
It is a standard protocol; only the ignorant do not know this - the CoS is like your secretary who schedules your meetings, takes messages, controls visitors' access to your office etc.

The president merely voiced it out, probably to re-emphasise it because the protocol was previously not being adhered to by former ministers.

Icon79:
The problem with Nigeria and Nigerians is that we tend to copy everything we see overseas without asking for the owners manual.

If you have an Aso Rock Chief of Staff, why then do you need the SFG? Those two position, properly defined, are the same thing. In the United States, where Nigeria sheepishly copied the whole Chief of Staff to the Presidency thing, you don't have any position defined as the Secretary to the Federal Government. You do have a Staff Secretary, but that's not the same thing. The Staff Secretary actually works directly for the White House Chief of Staff.

Bottom line, Nigeria should learn to be original and quit sheepishly copying other people!


O pari

Federal Ministry of Information and Culture Press Release

FG To License Online Radio, TV Stations

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved wide ranging reforms in the broadcasting industry, including the licensing of online radio and television stations.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who disclosed this in Abuja on Friday when he received members of the Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON) on a courtesy visit, was responding to a request made by BON for the review of the Broadcasting Code.

“I just want to use this opportunity to inform you that Mr. President has actually already approved a review of the Broadcast Code that is going to take care of many of the issues you have already raised here.

“In particular, the President has approved that WebTVs and radio stations, including foreign broadcasters beaming signals into Nigeria, will be licensed because we must bring sanity into this industry.

Mr. President has also approved a wide range of reforms in the industry which, at the appropriate platform, I will let you know,” he said.

The Minister, who promised to carry along members of BON in the review of the Broadcasting Code, restated the commitment of the present administration to free media.

“I have said it on many platforms that this administration is not about to gag the press. No! But we will appeal to the press to please self-regulate for the sake of this country and also for the sake of the industry itself,” he said.


Alhaji Mohammed also appealed to BON to partner with the government in the promotion of peaceful co-existence and cohesion in order to engender progress and national development.

“Today, if anybody listens to what is being said on some radio or television stations, you will think that this country is at war or that Christians actually cannot live with Muslims or that there is a dichotomy between the North and the South.


I think we need to appeal to you to use your platforms for the unity and cohesion of the country,” he said.

In his remarks, the Acting Chairman of BON, Sir Godfrey Ohuabunwa, said the re-appointment of the Minister was deserving because he brought life and great innovation to the broadcast industry during the first tenure of the administration.

He pledged the readiness of BON to key into the government’s agenda, especially the fight against #fakenews.

Segun Adeyemi
@SegunAde88

SA To Hon. Minister of Information and Culture Abuja 23 Aug. 2019

⚫Select key White House staff and supervise them;

⚫Structure the White House staff system;

⚫Control the flow of people into the Oval Office;

⚫Manage the flow of information;

⚫Protect the interests of the president;

⚫Negotiate with Congress, other members of the executive branch, and extra-governmental political groups to implement the president's agenda;

and

⚫Advise the president on various issues, including telling the president what they do not want to hear.

MINISTERS REPORTING TO ABBA KYARI.

I have read several comments on the above subject matter. I am amazed at the level of passion this pronouncement has generated. The internet is a great thing. But while it brings news from every and all quarters,it also exposes ignorance from all nooks and crannies of the society. The capacity to issue statements and posts on the internet in copious volumes help create the impression that those who write or criticise on the internet also have understanding. Yet, to be literate is not the same as being knowledgeable.

Ministers are constitutional aides of Mr President in their respective ministries. Whereas the Chief of staff is a trusted personal aide of the President and the supreme head of the administration in the Presidency.

His responsibilities include hour by hour and day to day administration of the villa and every detail of the programmes of the President. This sacred job is done exclusively by the COS or any one designated to do it on his behalf.

The office of the President is the highest office in the country and it must have strict even though elastic schedules to accommodate emergencies.

It will easily be understood that for the integrity of the schedules of Mr President , which may include diplomatic, foreign missions, organisations, institutions, bilateral talks,visitations by other heads of states, conferences and other special events, very important domestic affairs, it therfore becomes imperative that only the office of the chief of staff is designated to handle all presidential appointments to avoid confusion and shoddiness at the highest office in the land.

Any minister who is desirous of seeing the President must of necessity pass through the only official channel which supretends over schedules and appointments of Mr President.

A minister who does not know the scheduled programmes of the President for the day cannot just impose his presence on the office of the president to disrupt the plans and protocols for the day or unnecessarily divert the attention of Mr President and cause him to delay other previously planned schedules with similarly important dignitaries. Personally I have witnessed this shameful embarrassments in the past just because we failed to go by laid down procedures. This is often too common with us politicians who considers the President as a colleague or personal friend or associate of long standing, with whom there should not be any bureaucratic barriers even in spite of his new exalted office as the head of state.

However, for the Presidency to run efficiently with a dignified administrative regime, a stratified arrangement of protocol need to be put in place and applied to those who need to see the president officially.

May be the President needed not to have announced it publicly. A simple memo from the office of the chief of staff , written clearly as a directive from Mr President would have sufficed.

I have served in the Presidency twice and I hold the above views sacrosanct.

Isoduwa:
Wetin she play for the world cup?

Notting Rubbish nowhere to be find

ofemigeorge:
How did you upload the video

Isoduwa:
Na their blood the thing dey


1.messi only shine for he club 2. oshoala only shine for her club
3.Barcelona fc indeed

naptu2:
Yeah, I know.

Nigerians are used to direct attacking football and we score a lot of goals. Thomas Dennerby came and realised that we are an attacking side, but our defence isn't so good. So he has tried to improve our defensive play, but it has affected our attack.

Desire Oparanozie, Asisat Oshoala, Francisca Ordega, etc. have not been scoring as many goals as they used to score before he became the coach.

Jarus:
Good spot.

Likely a British-Nigerian upcoming footballer. Interesting, I can't find anything about her online other than this story.

RTSC2:
I think oshoala goal was very good, but it was just a shot from a long distance after the keeper left his line.

Lobbying the ball at close distance to the keeper is where the technicality is.
Very few players can do it. They would rather go round the keeper because it is easier.

Look at this video of messi especially the first goal.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXpvZu0v0a8

nsdirect:
That's a dope goal but I dont think that's what he's asking.

nsdirect:





P.S. Why does she like going around keepers so much?

nsdirect:
Oh wow. I was just going by her performance at the last FWWC

nsdirect:


Maybe super falcon should change their jersey to Barcelona colors. Apparently that's the only way my baby can score for us.


P.S. Why does she like going around keepers so much?




P.P.S. She looks so damn elegant and stands up straight. Okay bye








Meanwhile see my signature

nsdirect:


Maybe super falcon should change their jersey to Barcelona colors. Apparently that's the only way my baby can score for us.


P.S. Why does she like going around keepers so much?




P.P.S. She looks so damn elegant and stands up straight. Okay bye








Meanwhile see my signature

RTSC2:
Dem go still collect from Lyon

BTW, I am yet to see a female player who can dink the ball over the keeper into the net like messi instead of going round the keeper.
Maybe ada hegeberg and Marta can.

Most male players can't even do it. They would rather go round the keeper.

The few players that can do it are highly technical players

Aystarz:
The remember Junior Agogo. Dude was a terror against the Super Eagles' defence back at AFCON 2008 when the two sides met.

And Chiejine Skilful but with the quickness! Sharp and rugged when she needed to be...like the Falcons of yore.

Both players are legends in their own rights. May God grant the repose of their souls.

nonjebose:
I think she had an elderly sister who was the team's goalkeeper or something

kayusely70:
What about Laolu Akande?

Ifeanyi Chiejine: Former Nigeria forward dies at 36

By Oluwashina Okeleji

Football Writer, Nigeria

34 minutes ago
From the section African

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/onesport/cps/800/cpsprodpb/6D10/production/_108402972_2674974.jpg
Nigeria's Ifeanyi Chiejine played at three Women's World Cups, two Olympics and won four Africa Cup of Nations titles


One of Nigeria's most successful women's internationals, forward Ifeanyi Chiejine, has died at the age of 36 after a long illness.

Chiejine, who played for Nigeria at the 2000 and 2008 Olympic Games, won four Women's Africa Cup of Nations titles.

"This is a great loss, she briefly mentioned her illness to some of us, but didn't say exactly what," her former teammate Rachael Ayegba told BBC Sport.

"Chiejine was a shining star as a player, yet she died just like that. We need to do more for our current and former players."

She was the youngest player at the 1999 Fifa Women's World Cup in the United States and went to play at the 2003 and 2007 tournaments. 

"We are sad to announce the sudden demise of our former Super Falcons player. Rest in peace, Ifeanyichukwu Stephanie Chiejine," the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) wrote on social media. 

Chiejine nicknamed 'Smally' will be fondly remembered for her outstanding display at the 2007 African Games in Algeria.

She finished as the tournament's top scorer with five goals to help her country win Gold at the continental games in North Africa.

Capped 68 times by the Super Falcons scoring 18 goals, Chiejine played professionally in Russia, United States, Finland and Kazakhstan.

Locally she played for Flying Babes FC, FCT Queens of Abuja and the Pelican Stars of Calabar.

Ifeanyi Chiejine: Former Nigeria forward dies at 36

By Oluwashina Okeleji

Football Writer, Nigeria

34 minutes ago
From the section African

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/onesport/cps/800/cpsprodpb/6D10/production/_108402972_2674974.jpg
Nigeria's Ifeanyi Chiejine played at three Women's World Cups, two Olympics and won four Africa Cup of Nations titles


One of Nigeria's most successful women's internationals, forward Ifeanyi Chiejine, has died at the age of 36 after a long illness.

Chiejine, who played for Nigeria at the 2000 and 2008 Olympic Games, won four Women's Africa Cup of Nations titles.

"This is a great loss, she briefly mentioned her illness to some of us, but didn't say exactly what," her former teammate Rachael Ayegba told BBC Sport.

"Chiejine was a shining star as a player, yet she died just like that. We need to do more for our current and former players."

She was the youngest player at the 1999 Fifa Women's World Cup in the United States and went to play at the 2003 and 2007 tournaments. 

"We are sad to announce the sudden demise of our former Super Falcons player. Rest in peace, Ifeanyichukwu Stephanie Chiejine," the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) wrote on social media. 

Chiejine nicknamed 'Smally' will be fondly remembered for her outstanding display at the 2007 African Games in Algeria.

She finished as the tournament's top scorer with five goals to help her country win Gold at the continental games in North Africa.

Capped 68 times by the Super Falcons scoring 18 goals, Chiejine played professionally in Russia, United States, Finland and Kazakhstan.

Locally she played for Flying Babes FC, FCT Queens of Abuja and the Pelican Stars of Calabar.