The announcement was made on Friday in press statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga.

The Senate confirmed the ambassadors-designate last December.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has already received agreement from the United Kingdom for the High Commissioner-designate, Ambassador Aminu Dalhatu.

Similarly, France has sent the agreement for Ambassador Ayo Oke.

The ministry has also conveyed the nominations of the other 62 designated envoys to all the countries concerned, including a request for their agreements in line with standard diplomatic practice.

President Tinubu has directed that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to immediately commence the induction programme for the ambassadors-designate and high commissioners.

The posting of non-career ambassadors/ high commissioners are as listed below:

S/N NAME MISSION APPROVED

1. SENATOR GRACE BENT: LOME-TOGO
2. SEN. ITA ENANG: SOUTH AFRICA
3. IKPEAZU VICTOR: SPAIN
4. NKECHI LINDA UFOCHUKWU: TEL-AVIV, ISRAEL
5. MAHMUD YAKUBU: QATAR
6. PAUL OGA ADIKWU: THE VATICAN CITY HOLY SEE
7. VICE ADMIRAL IBOK-ETE EKWE IBAS: THE PHILIPPINES
8. MR. RENO OMOKRI: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
9. HON. (ENGR.) ABASI BRAIMAH (FMHR): BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
10. MRS. ERELU ANGELA ADEBAYO: PORTUGAL
11. BARR. OLUMILUA OLUWAYIMIKA AYOTUNWA: TOKYO, JAPAN
12. RT. HON. UGWUANYI IFEANYI LAWRENCE: ATHENS, GREECE
13. BARR. CHIOMA PRISCILLA OHAKIM: WARSAW, POLAND
14. AMINU DALHATU: UNITED KINGDOM, UK
15. LT. GEN ABDULRAHMAN BELLO DAMBAZAU: BEIJING, CHINA
16. HON. TASIU MUSA MAIGARI: GAMBIA
17. OLUFEMI PEDRO: AUSTRALIA
18. BARR. MUHAMMED UBANDOMA ALIYU: ARGENTINA
19. LATEEF KAYODE ARE: USA
20. AMB. JOSEPH SOLA IJI: RUSSIA
21. SEN. JIMOH IBRAHIM: UN PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE
22. FEMI FANI KAYODE: GERMANY
23. PROF. ISAAK FOLORUNSO ADEWOLE: OTTAWA, CANADA
24. AJIMOBI FATIMA FLORENCE (F): AUSTRIA
25. MRS. LOLA AKANDE (F): SWEDEN
26. AYODELE OKE: FRANCE
27. YAKUBU N. GAMBO: SAUDI ARABIA
28. SENATOR PROF. NORA LADI DADUUT: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
29. BARR. ONUEZE CHUKWUJIKA JOE OKOCHA SAN: DUBLIN
30. DR. KULU HARUNA ABUBAKAR: TUNIS, TUNISIA
31. RT. HON. JERRY SAMUEL MANWE: PORT OF SPAIN, T&T

Posting of career ambassadors/ high commissioners are as listed below:

S/N   NAME                                   MISSION APPROVED

1. AMB. NWABIOLA EZENWA CHUKWUMEKA: COTE D’IV/OIRE
2. BESTO MAIMUNA IBRAHIM: NIAMEY-NIGER
3. MONICA OKWUCHUKWU ENEBECHI: SAO TOME, STP
4. AMB. MOHAMMED MAHMUD LELE: ALGIERS-ALGERIA
5. ENDONI SYNDOPH PAEBI: OUAGADOUGOU-BURKINA FASO
6. AHMED MOHAMMED MONGUNO: CAIRO EGYPT
7. AMB.JANE ADAMS (NEE OKON) MICHAEL (F): KINGSTON-JAMAICA
8. AMB. CLARK-OMERU ALEXANDRA (F): LUSAKA-ZAMBIA
9. CHIMA GEOGGREY LIOMA DAVID: BAMAKO-MALI
10. AMB. ODUMAH YVONNE EHINOSEN: MALABO –E/GUINEA
11. AMB WASA SEGUN IGE: BEIRUT, LEBANON
12. RUBEN ABIMBOLA SAMUEL (F): ROME, ITALY
13. AMB.ONAGA OGECHUKWU KINGSLEY: MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE
14. AMB.MAGAJI UMAR: KINSASHA, DR CONGO
15. AMB.MUHAMMAD SAIDU DAHIRU: NEW DELHI-INDIA
16. AMB. ABDUSSALAM HABU ZAYYAD: DAKAR-SENEGAL
17. AMB SHEHU ILU BARDE: ACCRA GHANA
18. AMB.AMINU NASIR: ETHIOPIA
19. ABUBAKAR MUSA MUSA: N’DJAMENA, CHAD
20. AMB. HAIDARA MOHAMMED IDRIS: THE HAGUE-NETHERLANDS
21. AMB.BAKO ADAMU UMAR: RABAT-MOROCCO
22. AMB. SULU GAMBARI OLATUNJI AHMED: MALAYSIA
23. AMB.ROMATA MOHAMMED OMOBOLANLE (F): TANZANIA
24. AMB. SHAGA JOHN SHAMAH: BOTSWANA
25. SALAU, HAMZA MOHAMMED: TEHRAN, IRAN
26. AMB.IBRAHIM DANLAMI: KENYA
27. IBRAHIM ADEOLA MOPELOLA (F): COTONOU-BENIN
28. AMB.AYENI ADEBAYO EMMANUEL: BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
29. AMB.AKANDE WAHAB ADEKOLA: BERNE-SWITZERLAND
30. AMB. AREWA (NEE ADEDOKUN) ESTHER (F): WINDHOEK-NAMIBIA
31. AMB.GERGADI JOSEPH JOHN: LIBREVILLE-GABON
32. AMB. LUTHER OGBOMODE AYO-KALATA (F): SIERRA LEONE
33. DANLADI YAKUBU NYAKU : KHARTOUM-SUDAN

34.  BELLO DOGON-DAJI HALIRU: BANGKOK, THAILAND

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They are Amb. Ayodele Oke, Col. Lateef Are and Amb. Amin Dalhatu.

The approvals were announced on Thursday in a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga.

Oke was posted as Nigeria’s ambassador-designate to France, Are was approved as the ambassador-designate to the United States of America whole Dalhatu, former envoy to South Korea, was posted as high commissioner-designate to the United Kingdom.

Tinubu has directed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to formally notify the governments of the three countries of the approvals in line with established diplomatic procedures.

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They are Kayode Are (Ogun), Aminu Dalhatu (Jigawa) and Emmanuel Oke (Oyo).

The confirmation followed the consideration of the report of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Presenting the report, the chairman of the committee, Sen. Sani Bello, said the nominees displayed wide and in-depth knowledge of international diplomacy.

The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, thanked the chairman and members of the committee for expeditious consideration of the nominees.

He congratulated President Bola Tinubu “for putting square pegs in square holes”, urging the ambassadors to bring greater relationships between Nigeria and any country they would be posted to.

President Tinubu forwarded names of the three non-career ambassadorial nominees to the Senate for confirmation on November 26, while 65 other ambassadorial nominees forwarded to the Senate and screened are yet to be confirmed.

The Senate also confirmed two commissioners of the National Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC.

They are Aisha Kanti Bello and Dr Animashaun Olayinka.

Source: NAN

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Their verdict at the end of the talk shop wasn’t that favourable, as the North gave him a long shopping list which literally said “Perform in these areas, or you will not enjoy our support in 2027.”

The assessment parley, tagged: ‘Two-day Interactive session on Government-Citizens Engagement’, with the theme ‘Assessing Electoral Promises: Fostering Government-Citizen Engagement For National Unity’, was held at the Arewa House, with Tinubu sending a high-level team of over 10 senior government officials to attend.

Organized by the Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation, (SABMF) with the full support of the Arewa Consultative Forum, (ACF), the talk-shop was a bold statement from the North on the direction the 2027 election would take.

The Chairman, Board of Trustees of the ACF, Alhaji Bashir Dalhatu, fired on all cylinders when he told the gathering that the North gave Tinubu 64 per cent of the entire votes he got across the country, which eventually gave him the presidency in 2023. Hear him: “Northerners went out en-masse on the 25th of February, 2023, and cast their ballots for Bola Tinubu. At the end of the day, 5.6 million out of the total 8.8 million votes he got (or 64%), came from the North. And yet, two years into the four-year tenure of President Tinubu, the feeling among the people of the North is, to put it mildly, completely mixed. To our surprise, those who did not support him, did not vote for him, and hardly wished him well have emerged from nowhere and are trying to push a wedge between him and the North. Whether or not they are succeeding, we do not know. But we cannot pretend not to observe that President Tinubu’s budget priorities, his infrastructural projects, his appointments and other executive actions, have, over the last two years, largely sidelined Northern Nigeria. As far as we can see, nothing or little is being done to address the major issues of concern to the North, details of which were presented to him in writing by various groups over the years.”

He was not done, as he went ahead to list insecurity, low budgetary allocation to agriculture, poor electricity supply to the North, lack of functional health care system, the rehabilitation of the Ajaokuta Steel project, continuous search for crude oil up north, political appointments to Northerners, and the rehabilitation of more roads across the North as some of the areas the Tinubu government should quickly look into in order to pacify the region ahead of the 2027 polls.

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To show that the North is actually getting the short end of the stick, Dalhatu used the 2025 budget size of N1.013 trillion to buttress his argument. According to him, the entire North ended up with a mere N24 billion in the budget. Now, he wants the President to “start, re-start, expedite, or complete the construction of some of the major roads that are of great strategic importance to Northern Nigeria”.  These include the Abuja – Kaduna- Zaria – Kano; the Ilorin – Jebba- Tegina – B/Gwari- Kaduna road; the Abuja – Lokoja- Okene – Auchi road; the Zaria- Funtua – Gusau – Sokoto – Ilela road, the Keffi – Akwanga – Jos – Bauchi – Gombe –  Yola road, the Calabar – Ogoja – Wukari – Numan- Biu – Maiduguri road; the Wudil – Kafin-Hausa – Katagum – Potiskum road; the Kano – Katsina road, the Enugu – Otukpo – Makurdi road, the Gombe – Biu – Damaturu – Gashua – Gusau road; the Lambatta – Lapai- Agaie – Bida – Mokwa road, and the Birnin-Kebbi – Yauri – Kontogora – Makera – Tegina road.

Again, he cited the example of a press statement published by the Federal Ministry of Works on the 5th of May, 2025 with the title: ‘President Tinubu Has Approved The Allocation Of N787.14 Billion And $651.14 million For Road Projects’. When the total sum was broken down region by region, the North, again, he said, got a meagre amount from the federal government.  According to him, the Southwest got N1.394 trillion, the Southeast got N205 billion, the Northwest, N105 billion, and the Northeast, N30 billion.

These figures, he added, should be read together with the figures that the federal government had earlier allocated to some federal projects such as the Lagos – Calabar Highway, valued at N15 trillion; the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, valued at N195bn; the Lekki Corridor, valued at ($651.7m, equivalent of N978bn; the Outer Marina Shoreline, valued at N176.5bn; the Second Niger Bridge, valued at N148bn; the Delta State Section, valued at N470.9bn; the Enugu – Onitsha road, valued at N150bn, and the Benin – Lokoja road, valued at N305bn.

The North, he said, only got a meagre presence with the approval for the rehabilitation of the following roads: the Maiduguri – Monguno at N21bn, the Abuja -Kaduna – Kano at N242bn; the Sokoto – Zamfara-Katsina – Kaduna at N105bn; the Wusasa – Jos at N18 billion, and the Cham – Numan, at N9.3bn.

As expected, there was immediate push back from the Presidency, with the Minister of Works, Engineer Dave Umahi listing all projects done by his ministry and showing that no single section of the country has been left behind. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume, who led the federal government team, also pleaded with the North to support Tinubu in 2027, with the promise that power would return to the region by 2031.

It is when all the stakeholders are on the same page in their desire to give qualitative education to youths, particularly the largely uneducated Northern youths, that the nation would be on the road to solving the security challenges we are currently battling.

Dalhatu is indeed a good representative of Northern Nigeria. In a federation, there is nothing wrong with a region advocating for more federal presence from those in power, what Dalhatu failed to tell Nigerians is whether a similar shopping list was handed over to former President Muhammadu Buhari when he was elected President for eight years. Was an assessment of his eight-year tenure ever done by the ACF? After all, what is good for the goose is good for the gander.

Many northern leaders kept quiet when one of theirs held forte at the helm of affairs even though most of them knew that his regime was a disaster.

However, the take away for me from the talk shop was the late acknowledgement that the North is pained by the little priority given to education by leaders from the same region. Dalhatu, in his speech, admitted that the North is in trouble, as proven by the most recent World Bank estimates of out-of-school children put at 20 million, 80 per cent of whom are in the North. But again, he put the blame squarely on the doorsteps of the federal government when he stated that the sector is grossly underfunded. He is also of the view that teachers training and welfare must be improved in the North. Let me quote some of the measures he recommended to improve the lot of the educational sector. “We must make the implementation of the UBE scheme more efficient and ensure that all children of school-going age do actually go to school, including the children of nomadic herdsmen, fishermen, and other itinerant tradesmen. As a matter of fact, the President should be advised to relaunch the UBE Scheme and commit the country to a comprehensive, free and compulsory basic education in Nigeria.”

I am happy that Dalhatu and other opinion leaders in the North have finally seen what many of us saw as a ticking time bomb decades ago when the agitation began in the South that the North is not placing much priority on education. The fad in the North is for parents to send their children and wards to Madrasa (Qur’anic School), with little or no attention given to western education. From their early ages, children are sent to far-off places to learn the Qur’an, and many elites in the region soon started to use the cultural and religious practices to hold down the masses.

I think that Dalhatu should be told that it is already too late in the day for the North to be emphasizing the importance of western education. The toddlers of the past two decades who were denied western education have now become brainwashed adults and now being used as foot soldiers by Boko Haram terrorists, bandits, and kidnappers in the entire North. When Mohammed Yusuf who founded Boko Haram was looking for a name for his group, Boko Haram (‘book, or western education is forbidden’) became the adopted catch-phrase.

The neglect of those children years ago is largely responsible for the unfortunate acts of terrorism now facing the entire country. Perhaps Dalhatu should come to the South west to see what Northern youths – those who chose not to take up arms against their fatherland – are doing to survive. Many of them – uneducated – have taken up menial jobs to survive. Some are riding Okada, while some are picking waste as scavengers (popularly called Baban bola – the waste man), yet some are into shoe shining and other sundry jobs just to make ends meet. Most of them sleep in makeshift sheds along the rail line, some, on top of refuse heaps at dump sites or wherever night meets them.

The criminals among them are into burglary, always on the lookout for completed but not yet occupied houses which they strip of all its wiring, iron doors, and windows. They have become a nuisance in the South while their bigger brothers up North are into kidnapping, banditry, and terrorism.

Dalhatu should be told the plain truth that the billions of Naira that the federal government has devoted to fighting insecurity in the entire North could have been put into infrastructural development of the entire country if Northern children are educated. If elites like him had embraced mass education, as it is being done in the South, we would not be in the mess we are in right now. Dalhatu should provide answers to the nomadic education policy of the Jonathan administration and what eventually became the lot of the scheme.

A former education Minister, Adamu Adamu, in 2022, told the world that the Almajiri system of education which sought to infuse western education into Qur’anic school was poorly implemented after several billions of Naira was spent on the scheme. Adamu was in charge of the Ministry of Education for eight years and he should be bold to tell the world what he did to correct the poor implementation of the policy by the Buhari government that he served.

Again, it should also be pointed to Dalhatu and other Northern leaders that education is under the concurrent list on the Constitution and Northern governors should point out what they did to improve the lot of northern youths through education. Northern governors should be made to show more interest in the education of northern youths by providing the needed environment and infrastructure at the primary and post-primary levels. They should get competent teachers with the right motivation to salvage the sordid state of education in the North. For how long would the country continue to admit students into unity schools with low grades all in the name of coming from educationally disadvantage states? Still, it is better late than never. If the North is now ready to change the narrative on education, all hands must be on deck to turn the situation around, and quickly.  Islamic clerics, parents, opinion leaders, and government at the local, state, and federal levels must be fully involved and carried along.

It is when all the stakeholders are on the same page in their desire to give qualitative education to youths, particularly the largely uneducated Northern youths, that the nation would be on the road to solving the security challenges we are currently battling.

See you next week.

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The conversion of the health facility to a federal teaching hospital will not only enhance the training of students in medical and allied sciences but also boost healthcare delivery in the state.

President Tinubu, according to his media aide, Mr. Ajuri Ngelale, remained committed to ensuring the social welfare and healthcare security of Nigerians and would aggressively sustain his administration’s investment drive and efforts in the sector.

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The president made these remarks on Thursday at a meeting with the leadership of Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

“We are running a constitutional democracy. I will appeal to you to summon the governors. I am doing my very best to enhance the revenue base of the country. They must equally be sympathetic, and they must urgently consider the needs of the local people.

“People reside in the local communities. That is where they work, farm, and live. If the local governments are not effective in delivering services; as leaders, we must not hang on to the numbers. We have 774 local government areas, but are they truly effective? Do they solve problems for Nigerians? Do they coordinate development programming with the state and federal governments?

“Who is being held accountable for the performance of the 774 local governments? Maybe we should look at recalibrating. What was good four years ago may not be good today. When we want the votes, we go to the locals; when we get the votes, we move to and focus on Abuja,” the president said.

Highlighting the significance of education in nation building, the president described the situation of out-of-school children in parts of Nigeria as unacceptable.

“The question of out-of-school children is unacceptable. Education is a tool against poverty, and that is what brought many of us here. We must use our education to serve the people and improve their conditions. We must develop the backbone of Nigeria’s economy, which is the education system. We will collaborate with you on this intensively.

“We are still building Nigeria, and I am glad that you have emphasized the need for development. The infrastructure decay is unacceptable, and the level of poverty in the north is unacceptable. We must eliminate the source of these trends,” President Tinubu stated.

On security, President Tinubu commended the National Security Adviser, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, for his efforts, saying: “Everybody wants to be secure, and we need to invest more in technology. We will do it, I promise you. We will put our heart and soul into ensuring that Nigeria is secure and its citizens are protected.

“The AKK project, the dredging of the River Niger, and improving port access and infrastructure nationwide, in order to shorten travel time, will make us more prosperous as a nation. We have to fight insecurity so that people can make a decent living anywhere they live.”

The president also addressed economic development and livestock management, stating: “Animal husbandry has been a huge problem for Nigeria. Dairy farms can grow our economy significantly.

“Talk to the governors and tell them to make more land available. Talk to herders to collaborate with the states. The lands are with the states. We are ready to put funds in place to help the herders. We can do it, and we will be able to do it. If the Brazilians and the Dutch are doing it, we can also do it,” the president stated.

President Tinubu also used the occasion to appeal for national unity and continued support for his government as it solves decades-long challenges confronting the populace.

“As long as we are together, and we have to be together, there is strength in our diversity. Our strength and opportunity are built into our population. I thank the cabinet members for their efforts, but I will relieve any of them of their duties anytime I feel that they are failing Nigerians,” the president affirmed.

The president directed the establishment of a committee to follow up on the issues raised at the meeting and assigned the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator George Akume, to lead the follow-up efforts.

“We must tick the boxes on all that we must quickly do,” President Tinubu said.

The leader of the delegation and Chairman, Board of Trustees of ACF, Barrister Bashir Dalhatu congratulated President Tinubu on his first year in office and expressed the Forum’s appreciation for his achievements and service to the country.

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”Your Excellency may wish to recall the invitation extended to you, which you graciously honoured and which led to a robust interactive conference at the Arewa House on the 19th of October, 2022.

”We make bold to say that Your Excellency’s vigorous, firm, and credible commitments and assurances to Northerners, made at that meeting and during the course of your election campaign, proved to be a game-changer,” the leader of the delegation said.

Dalhatu said Northern Nigeria reposed strong trust and confidence in President Tinubu, adding: “Your tireless support for and collaboration with Northerners that helped many to win elections into various positions, including that of the presidency in the past, has consolidated the love and trust in the hearts of Northerners for you, as confirmed by the pattern of voting in the last presidential election.”

The ACF BOT Chairman further highlighted several achievements within the President’s first year in office, including the prioritization of funding for agriculture and education, as well as the maintenance of good relations with Nigeria’s neighbours.

The ACF applauded the president for prioritizing the Sokoto-Badagry Highway and the Trans-Saharan highway and his implemented measures to fast-track the completion of the Ajaokuta Steel Complex.

”With these developments, we feel greatly motivated and even more confident that Your Excellency will look upon the North with even greater sympathy and strive harder to alleviate the dire economic and social pains in Northern Nigeria,” the leader of the delegation said.

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