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Buhari /Osinbajo has been trying their means to put an end to the incessant increasing of goods and services ,though many were caused by the middlemen, Osinbajo in particular has done so much on the issue of IDPs

Daily communication with the inmate is very vital

The government is doing this to stop the complain of Fulani today Fulani tomorrow and this is another development to stop the open grazing ,I say this is a welcome development

wow this is another opportnity for the young and vibrant Nigerians to benefit immensely from the project, I say thank you to Buhari/Osinbajo administration

there's no doubt about it that this government has increased livelihood by all means with the help of ESP ,MSMEs is also strive as well

Nseobong Okon-Ekong writes that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo understands the challenges and demands of the office of President of Nigeria and has acquired the depth of on-the-job-training and preparedness to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari
Yemi Osinbajo, Nigeria’s Vice President can be the president all Nigerians clamour for come 2023; and he will work for everyone, including those who think he is not deserving. There are many likely aspirants, like the accomplished businessman, Mr. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, who holds such a promise. The imperative for a president who is totally devoid of sectional interests has never been so paramount.

Mr. Osinbajo has worked very closely, almost without rancour with President Muhammadu Buhari, except for instances of misunderstanding contrived to benefit those who do not wish him to succeed the president. For now, it may be said that the Vice President has no personal agenda beyond carrying out assigned roles and giving unalloyed support to his principal. His loyalty brings to mind the years of distrust and the divided presidency of Olusegun Obasanjo and former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar. The expectation of the Nigerian public on what qualities the next president of Nigeria should possess is squarely captured in Osinbajo. He understands the challenges and demands of the office. Arguably, no Vice president has acquired the depth of on-the-job-training and preparedness. He is well suited to the demands of the office.
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has experienced a lot of skirmishes over the bid to control the party. These unpremeditated fighting has led to unhealthy cleavages that threatens to severe the cord of unity within the party. Osinbajo can be that fine thread that completely sews and restores the tattered fabric of the APC.

Inside of him is a huge capacity for compassion and decency. A President Osinbajo would have a bold respect for the rule of law, not because he is a professor of law and a preacher of the gospel whose moral compass has been unwavering on the path of rectitude, but he has demonstrated over time that he strives for excellence without compromise. No doubt public confidence in democratic institutions will be restored. With Osinbajo on the saddle there would a swing back to the era of regard for professionalism in government. It can almost be taken for granted that competence will form the basis of call to service in his administration. Nigeria and Nigerians will experience a new lease of life and pride in their nation as Osinbajo deploys every possible method to address injustices to aggrieved sections of the country in a bid to put the nation first.
It is clear that Osinbajo would be guided by his famous statement. “As I repeated many times during the course of the campaign that our country is not short of ideas, we are not short of projects; we are not short of money either; what we are short of is integrity in office.”

Mr. Osinbajo recommends himself for not dealing treacherously with two of the most powerful figures, not only in the APC, but in the country. He served as Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice under Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu as Governor of Lagos State. For his dedication, Tinubu had no reservation in putting him forward when it became clear that Nigerians would not accept his bid to pair Buhari as running mate; mainly because of the religious sensitivity of Muslim-Muslim ticket. Since 2015, Osinbajo has largely remained where the lines are defined for him; not overtly ambitious to attempt a crossover into needless controversies. Therefore, Buhari has enjoyed a relatively peaceful presidency, assured that his deputy is a gentleman to the core.
As president, Osinbajo will certainly be under some sort of pressure from Tinubu directly or remotely from his supporters. The demand on him will be to show gratitude at all times to the man who God used to pave the way for him to reach the pinnacle of governance in Nigeria. But what many including Abuja-based lawyer, Kayode Ajulo who have started to rally friends and associates of the Vice President into a potential political pressure group, first within, the APC, and later with the mandate to reach farther in the larger society, believe that Osinbajo can be trusted to keep the ship of state on an even keel. The Ajulo train for Osinbajo is anchored on continuity, competence, experience, stability, charisma and zoning. “My support for Osinbajo is based on principles over politics,” he said.
To date, it may be argued that most successful Minister of Finance in Nigeria was Chief Obafemi Awolowo, who was a lawyer, journalist and thinker. Osinbajo headed Nigeria’s economic team at a most critical period under the Buhari presidency. His economic recovery plan as Chairman of the National Economic Council (NEC) is still the structure on which some of the current policies are being run.

His record of accomplishments has almost been indelible until the mud that was splashed on his reputation owing contrived complicity in the Tunde Fowler alleged corruption case at the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). It was alleged that the Vice President took N90 billion from the FIRS to fund the 2019 elections. Soon another allegation of corruption against Osinbajo emerged from the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He was mentioned in the N5.8 billion National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) scandal. The Vice President was also unfortunately tied to an unsavoury report by a notorious online publisher that linked him to corrupt receipt of money from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Acting Chairman Ibrahim Magu. In all these instances, the allegations died naturally because they were without substance. It is noteworthy that at no time did President Buhari show displeasure of the conduct of the Vice President. At this juncture, it becomes necessary to recall the testimony of a renowned Professor of Law, Itse Sagay. On Osinbajo, he said, “The Vice President is an incorruptible man of God, a man of high moral standing who is as clean as a whistle. He will not appropriate any money that doesn’t belong to him to himself.”
Supposing the APC permutation favours him and he goes on to win the general election, Mr. Osinbajo will also do very well in foreign relations. Like his mentor in politics, Osinbajo has an uncanny gift to assemble the right team of men and women that can buld bridges over troubled waters in all spheres. The questions will be tough on all counts and Nigerians will want quick, almost magical results, but the Vice President has the level-headedness to pilot Nigeria into her avowed destiny of admirable greatness.
Before Nigerians are offered the choice between Osinbajo and others, the APC must do the country the favour of bringing him forward and availing him with the best support available to triumph in the 2023 presidential election.

It would be wrong to say here that Osinbajo has no flaws. There is no such human being. What is possible is that if he emerges as the APC presidential candidate, he has the capacity to shepherd Nigerians to realise their God-given potentials in all fields.

Nigeria and Nigerians will experience a new lease of life and pride in their nation as Osinbajo deploys every possible method to address injustices to aggrieved sections of the country in a bid to put the nation first. It is clear that Osinbajo would be guided by his famous statement. “As I repeated many times during the course of the campaign that our country is not short of ideas, we are not short of projects; we are not short of money either; what we are short of is integrity in office.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2021/07/20/osinbajo-can-returm-nigeria-to-an-era-of-professionalism-in-government/

Kano, Nigeria's major seeds producer, was among the areas hit the hardest by the pandemic during the planting season, which affected seed processing and transportation. As a result, many farmers could not obtain seeds or received them too late.

By Oluwafemi Popoola

Last week, I stumbled on a news publication from Daily Trust, an online media platform with an headline that says “Don’t Weaken North’s Economy With Your Privatization Plans, Northern Coalition Tells Osinbajo”

This allegation of sabotaging the northern economy to protect the interest of the southern region levelled against the cerebral Osinbajo by this faceless northern group is something that ignited my curiosity being an ardent follower of the 64 year old's numerous activities that transcends beyond ethnic and tribal poles. The allegation as I summed it undermines the VP's numerous achievements and outstanding successes in the entire northern region.

The Group in the media report had said that the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s economic team was planning to weaken the economy of the Northern region through his team’s recently approved privatisation plans of five power plants. They include Calabar, Ihovbor, Olorunsogo, Omotosho and Geregu power plants.

The group's spokesman, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman was quoted to have described the plans “most dubious, unreasonable and unacceptable act of injustice” against northerners and in particular, asked leaders of the region to raise the alarm over the move.

In order to make sense out of this, it is either the northern group overrates the powers of the VP being the chairman of the National Council of Privatization (NCP) or the group was only being hypocritical or playing a tribal card on the VP .

The CNG must have issued that statement in swift reaction to the decision of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) to sell these five National Integrated Power Plants (NIPPs) to prospective power investors.

The decision to sell these government's properties was however made known by the Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), the agency overseeing the privatisation of the five plants barely three weeks ago quoting the federal government as the major driver of the policy and that aligns with its interest.

While it is true that Osinbajo is both the chairman of National Privatization council, (NCP) and the Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited (NDPHC) ,but it should also be made clear that the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), is the only agency empowered without any interference from the member of the executive to oversee the privatisation of those five plants which also has a task of implementing government’s several privatisation programmes.

Let's not forget that Amperion Power Distribution Company Limited, a subsidiary of Forte Oil Plc owned by a southerner, Femi Otedola acquired the Geregu power plant 1 in 2013 and invested a whooping $94 million in the power plant, while also in 2014, the Federal Government handed over Olorunsogo Power Plc to SEPCO Pacific Partners Ltd, with another southerner as its Chairman Adedeji Adeleke.


It is not out of place for someone to think that some northern forces are not happy and comfortable with the manner at which all these power plants are falling into the hands of some rich southern private individuals hence the dragging Osinbajo being a Southerner into their false campaign of a Southern agenda against the North

Some of us and many others who have been a keen observer of the vice president's significant contributions to national development and to humanity as a whole, would rise in his defense against any libel, falsehood, or statement that may sully his long years of selfless service to his country.

Osinbajo has championed and overseen a lot of projects in the Northern Nigerian more than what he has ever done in the South or even in his home town Ijebu where he come from and there are evidence to back it up.

It is in this spirit of nationalism that the vice president yemj Osinbajo and his wife Dolapo built a state- of- the- art primary schools and learning centers for the orphans of those affected by the insurgency in the North east region.

This is a testament and a reflection of Osinbajo's humaneness and passion for the Northern people especially Borno state where he has personally raised funds to cater for the education of out of school children when many of the northern leaders looked other way.

Due to his unassuming personality and his quiet life of not wanting accolades or recognition, some of these achievements have been underreported which explains his own kind of politician as opposed to the traditional Nigerian politicians that would deploy all the instrument of propaganda even on a smallest project.

It would also be recalled that as Acting President in 2017, Prof. Osinbajo, in total disregard to safety concern amidst security fears, visited Borno state a day after a Boko Haram attack.

Many Nigerians and security experts and stakeholders during that time said it was unsafe to do so, but he exhibited true service and commitment to not only the victims of the incident in Borno but to the entire nation at large, yet a civilian with no military training. That is bravery and unadulterated nationalism.


In a one-day working visit to Maiduguri, Borno state capital. Osinbajo flagged-off the distribution of 30,000 metric tonnes of assorted grains for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), in the north-east. Coincidentally, this was a time the North East and the entire region was facing a severe humanitarian crisis. That was a demonstration of love and real humanity.

Prejudice and logic they say are strange bedfellows. This display of vitriol and animosity directed at the vice president by some faceless group is a distraction he can't afford at the moment for the sake of national development.

My candid advice to this group is to jettison politics and desist from attacking Osinbajo that many Nigerians see as a great nationalist who believes in the progress of every region in Nigeria, which has been made manifest with his deliverables thus far.

This is a farsighted and insightful initiative of the ECOWAS, trade promotion organizations in the ECOWAS community.

emorse:
They re-branded RUGA and called it NLTP. Una think say una wise ba? Mumu men!

They are not the same at all,read more about RUGA and NLTP

NLTP is a way out to put an end to this Fulani headsmen grazing on the open land and thereby causing caos between Farmers and the Fulanis

Sugardick:
rada-rada

You mean what you are saying?

Seniorwriter:
Nice read.
Nonetheless your administration is plain wicked & insensitive to the citizens....
Why do you collect a hardship allowance when you face no hardship whatsoever as the Vice President? Someone should get this to him.




@Seniorwriter

Nobody should get your nonsense write up to him

KillMNKnow:
The only candidate we northerners will accept from Yorubas..

If they don't give us Osibanjo, we will vote Atiku

Nobody apart from Osinbajo

A good leader must be tolerance ,cool and calm

STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE

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Burden of leadership requires us to act in faith at all times

In the midst of adversity, leaders must and are expected to remain calm, so that the people being led will follow in their footsteps, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN.

He made this assertion today at the 25th year anniversary conference of the Redeemer’s International Leadership Academy themed: Winning in Adversity, organised by the Redeemed Christian Church of God.

Prof Osinbajo stated that “it is in times of adversity or difficulty, or hardship that leaders are most relevant and most needed.

“The leader cannot afford to lose his cool or his focus. He must calm himself down and calm the people down as well.”

According to the Vice President, "when all is well, there is no need for guidance, encouragement or instruction, but it is especially in the midst of wars, conflicts, insurgency, famines, danger, and fear, that people look to leadership.”

Referencing the story of Moses and the Israelites in the Bible, Prof Osinbajo noted that “Moses looked up to God for help and God spoke to Him. But note that Moses first gave the people confidence in the power of God to deliver and fulfil His promises.

"He had not yet heard from God on this particular problem, but because he knew the God he served, he was able to say this with confidence."

In the virtual keynote address at the conference of the Redeemer’s International Leadership Academy, the VP stressed the need for leaders to remain unruffled because “in adversity, especially where the future looks bleak, people want to give up, retreat, go back and they certainly don’t want to go forward.”

Prof. Osinbajo himself an alumnus of the Academy then encouraged leaders, particularly Christian leaders, to act in faith and not fear when they are faced with crisis, especially existential crisis.

His words, “God knows all things; we must obey in faith even when we are afraid. This is the burden of leadership, especially leadership according to the principles of scripture.”

In attendance at the conference were Pastor A.A Bolarinwa, Assistant Continental Overseer, Research and Development of the RCCG, Pastor Idowu Iluyomade, Intercontinental Overseer for Corporate Social Responsibility and Pastor in Charge, RCCG Region 20 and Pastor Banky Ladele, the Acting Rector RILA.

There were also business and secular speakers at the event including Mr. Kayode Pitan, CEO/Managing Director of the Bank of Industry; Mrs Ndidi Nwuneli, Managing Partner, Sahel Consulting; Mrs Adenike Adeyemi, Executive Director, Fate Foundation and Mrs Oluwatoyin Asiru-Balogun, the CEO TY Farm Place.

Laolu Akande
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media & Publicity
Office of the Vice President
17th July 2021

Fake fake fake

We need to adhere to the protocol laid down the minister of health and the federal government to avoid the wide spread of COVID-19

We are expecting good result at the end of the meeting

It's certain ,2023 no shaking

This is good as to strengthen the ECOWAS strategy for information sharing among Member States, so as to avert or reduce threats.

Baawaa:
Which opportunities, the economy that Fulani has scattered

Who is telling you this rubbish

Nigeria is a place where investors can strive

I want to celebrate with you guys later,win! win!! win!!!

Very colourful

The Aura application as an “excellent innovation” that would give a boost to the country’s hospitality industry according to Prof Yemi Osinbajo