The rate at which events are piling up is mind-boggling. It is not even the acceleration and intensification of these events that are shattering as much as their content.
Eddy Odivwri
Last week, I promised to revisit an interview the then Gen Mohammadu Buhari granted this newspaper, in December 2014, as he was yet aspiring to win the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The interview which was published as “Presidential Series” was aimed at presenting the ‘repented’ Buhari to the voting public. He had borne the dark patch of being a military dictator, in his ‘first missionary journey” to save Nigeria. So, his publicists were not only so keen to present a re-oriented and more tolerant Buhari to the public, but also to project a man with a kind of Deus ex Machina capacity to fix Nigeria and her many ills.
In his years of active service, Gambo Jimeta attended Detective Training School, Wakefield, United Kingdom, in 1962; Bramhill Police College, United Kingdom, in 1963; International Police Academy, Washington DC, USA, in 1980; and the National Police Academy, Cairo, Egypt. In 1982, he was promoted to the rank of Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) and transferred to the Force Criminal Investigation Division, Alagbon Close, Lagos.
After the military took over government in December, 1983, when it overthrew the Second Republic, Gambo Jimeta was appointed the Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) to the then IGP Etim Inyang in January, 1984. At that time, only one DIG was appointed for the IGP. In 1986, he was appointed to succeed his boss, Etim Inyang, as Nigeria’s seventh Inspector General of Police and served until 1990 when he was succeeded in the same capacity by Aliyu Attah. He thereafter served as the National Security Adviser (NSA) to Nigeria’s former Military Pre
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By Johnbosco Agbakwuru – Abuja
President Muhammadu Buhari is currently presiding over the 31st virtual Federal Executive Council, FEC meeting at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, Abuja.
This is the second council meeting in 2021.
Physically present at the meeting is the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Mr. Boss Mustapha
Six Ministers are also attending physically. They are those of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Attorney General of the Federation, AGF and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, Federal Capital Territory, Mohammed Bello, IndustryTrade and Investment, Niyi Adebayo and Minister of State Power, Goddy Agba.