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Service Chiefs: Buhari tells Senate to mind its business
The Buhari presidency promptly Tuesday replied the Nigerian Senate over its resolution asking the Service Chiefs to step aside over the deteriorating insecurity in Nigeria.
The presidency said it noted the resolution, but excoriated the senators for offering the unsolicited advice.
“(the) appointment or sack of Service Chiefs is a Presidential prerogative, and President Muhammadu Buhari, in his capacity as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, will do what is in the best interest of the country at all times”, presidential spokesman Malam Garba Shehu said.
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Senator Ali Ndume sponsored the resolution passed on Tuesday.
Ndume is the chairman of Senate Committee on the Army and is representing Borno South, where an 11 year-old insurgency war is raging.
All the service chiefs, Gabriel Olonisakin, chief of defence staff; Tukur Buratai, chief of army staff; Sadique Abubakar, chief of air staff; and Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas, chief of naval staff; are all overdue for retirement.
But President Buhari has kept them in office, even when security challenges are mounting.
On Saturday, no fewer than 23 Nigerian soldiers were ambushed and killed in Katsina by ‘bandits’.
In Borno, insurgents often raid villages, killing wantonly.
It was this concern that prompted Senator Ali Ndume to move the motion.
He cited order 42(1) and 52 to seek the leave of the Senate to Present a Motion on rising number of casualties among the Nigerian Army and other security agencies recently to ambushes.
“The spirit of this motion is that our armed forces are trying very heard. The good is still not enough. We need to continue to encourage and provide for them. They lay their lives on behalf of all of us and it is very sad that some of them have deserted the war front”, Senate President Ahmad Lawan said.
He then suggested that the Joint Committees should get to the root of about 200 soldiers who have deserted.
He also offered condolences to the families of the fallen heroes”.
Nollywood star, Chiamaka Nwokeukwu has confessed love for the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.
The actress made her loving confession for the separatist leader on her Instagram page. The actress wrote, “ I respect Mazi Nnamdi Kanu if you know you know” with 100% emoji to back her emotion.
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Many of her followers expressed their displeasure regarding her Instagram post. Queen Endaline Nne was blunt, she said “I love you but this is a no-no, what he instigated in the minds of these hoodlums breaking and vandalizing properties in Onitsha in the name of Biafra ?ﾟ Let’s call a spade a spade, destroying properties we built by our own money, burning police stations and taking all the guns, the citizens are scared, this is not a tribal war, but a fight to save Nigeria as a whole. I would have unfriended you now because of this I swear, Nnamdi Kanu is a problem on his own, let’s learn to do things at the right time and in a peaceful and learned way”
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However, the Nollywood actress insisted saying, “Nobody should ever go against that man again I beg you. I’m gonna lose a lot of friends because of this man I swear and I mean it,” she said.
The Federal Government has announced October 12 for full reopening of 104 Unity Schools across the country. Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, made the announcement at a press conference.
He said State Governments and private school owners are at liberty to reopen based on guidelines developed for safe reopening of schools.
He urged the colleges to abide by the COVID-19 protocol guidelines developed to curtail spread of the virus.
The Minister threatened to shutdown schools, whether government or privately owned, that fail to obey the protocols.
TikTok owned by Chinese company ByteDance has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government led by President Donald Trump who had earlier banned the company’s American operations. The lawsuit, was filed today Monday, August 24 2020 in the Federal District Court for the Central District of California, alleging that Trump’s order violates due process protections and offers no evidence to back up its claims that TikTok presents a national security threat.
“The executive order is not rooted in bona fide national security concerns,” the complaint reads, noting that “independent national security and information security experts have criticized the political nature of this executive order, and expressed doubt as to whether its stated national security objective is genuine.”
TikTok said the Trump administration ignored their extensive efforts to address its concerns, which we conducted fully and in good faith. The popular TikTok also wrote in a press release. “We do not take suing the government lightly, however, we feel we have no choice but to take action to protect our rights, and the rights of our community and employees.”
“Our more than 1,500 employees across the U.S. pour their hearts into building this platform every day,” the company said
President Trump has repeatedly said that TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese internet company ByteDance, poses a national security threat because of its Chinese ties.
On August 6 2020, the USA president signed an executive order banning social media apps TikTok and WeChat from operating in the US in 45 days if they are not sold by their Chinese-owned parent companies. Microsoft then expressed interest in buying TikTok after the USA President had said he would support the sale of TikTok’s US operations to the US company with September 15 set as the deadline for the Chinese company to find a US buyer based on the order.
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