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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of his Special Adviser on Planning, Ben Akabueze, as the new Director General of the Budget Office of the Federation. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, in a statement said Akabueze took over from Tijani Abdullahi who will now serve as Special Adviser to the President on Planning and will continue to work with the Minister of Budget and National Planning. He said both Akabueze and Abdullahi joined the Ministry of Budget and National Planning in February. Adesina said their redeployment was part of an ongoing exercise aimed at further repositioning the ministry to effectively deliver on its core mandate.

President Muammadu Buhari has sent a list of 47 ambassadorial nominees to the Senate for its consideration and confirmation. The President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, who read the letter at the plenary said that President Buhari requested the Senate to approve the list at the shortest time possible. The nominees include: Obinna Chukwuemeka, Salisu Umoru, Iyang Udoh, Okeke Vivian, Liman Munir, Edem Jane, Mohammed Hassan, Martin Cobham, Janet Molegbo, Itegbuoye Sunday, Olatunde Adesesan and Lilian Onu. Others are: Manaja Isa, Ngozi Ukeje, Bello Husseini, Enoch Ducci, Garba Baba, Usman Aliyu, Umar Salisu, Momoh Omeiza, Kadiri Audu, Balogun Hakeem, Nosa Ahmed, Ibrahim Isa, Bankole Adeoye and Ibidapo Obe. Other nominees are: Ogundaro Sakirat, Eric Belgam, Ateru Haliru, Ramota Bulima, Musa Mamman, Kabiru Bala, Adamu Shuaibu, D. A. Agiv, T.K. Gonglong, Ibrahim Hamza, K.C. Nwachukwu and Q.R. Wolu. The list also has: E.K. Oguntuwase, A.I. Paragauda, L.A. Gasharga, Olufem

The Chairman of Code of Conduct Tribunal prosecuting public officers who fail to declare their assets in law, Mr. Danladi Yakubu Umar has clarified that he was only joking with his advocacy for the return decree 2 to regulate the practice of journalism in the country. Umar said that contrary to the impression created in the media he did not advocate for the Decree to harass, intimidate or arrest journalist or any Nigerian for whatever reason. In a statement by the Public Relations Officer of the Tribunal, Ibrahim Alhassan, the public was urged to regard the statement as a joke made in good faith and not to obstruct the practice of journalism in the country. “The statement by the Chairman was made out of joke, not to intimidate any member of the Fourth Estate of the Realm in this country from observing their statutory functions as mandated by the Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria, as anchored in liberal democratic society like ours.” The Chairman only cracked the joke

The Economic Community of West African States court has imposed a fine of $3.3mn on Nigeria over the extra-judicial killing of eight citizens in the Apo District of Abuja, Federal Capital Territory. The regional court, ordered the country to pay a compensatory damage of $200,000 to each of the family of its Nigerian citizens killed and $150,000 to each of the injured by a combined team of soldiers and operatives of the Department of State Security Service (DSS) during a raid of an uncompleted building in the Apo Area. The eight Nigerians killed when the security personnel opened fire on them were later found to be commercial motorcycle riders who were taking refuge in the uncompleted building as a result of the high cost of house rent in the capital city. Those killed are Nura Abdullahi , Ashiru Musa, Abdullahi Manmman, Buhari Ibrahim, Suleiman Ibrahim, Ahmadu Musa, Nasir Adamu and Musa Yobe. Eleven others who sustained various degrees of injuries from the bullets of the soldi