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Of rodents, roaches and robbers - Part 2 | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World NewsOpinion — The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News guardian.ng - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from guardian.ng Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
If the pace of the the relocation of the seat of government since the formal proclamation of Abuja as the nation’s new federal capital was hitherto slow and sluggish, the events of Sunday April 22, 1990 accelerated the snail-paced process. Murtala Ramat Mohammed, an army general and Nigerian Head of State, had on February 4, 1976, promulgated a law which decreed Abuja as the nation’s new federal capital. Lagos, which had since independence in 1960 served as the Nigerian capital, had become largely unsuitable with accentuating population, urban congestion and intractable traffic snarls, which encumbered the business of governance. Mohammed and his advisers therefore conceived of a brand new capital territory built from scratch, in the manner of Brasilia. ....
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Buhari fires police chief in Holy Week of high drama On Adamu-Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari showed red card to an inspector-general of police in an Easter week characterized by unpatriotic acts by Nigerians against their fatherland. Buhari, who is currently taking a short rest in London, England, named Mr Usman Baba as acting Inspector-General of Police after firing, Mr Mohammed Adamu on April 6. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the development occurred 28 days to the expiration of Adamu’s extended tenure. Adamu’s tenure was extended by the president on Feb. 4 this year in what analysts described as a controversial tenure extension of a retiring police chief. ....
After a long illness, he died on Tuesday at the State House Clinic. Buhari has expressed his condolences to the family of Afaka, a Master Warrant Officer who was killed in the line of duty. Afaka’s death is coming few days after SaharaReporters exposed how he capitalised on Buhari dementia to trick him to sign a fraudulent document to make millions of naira. It was learnt that the whole affair was however hushed up by the Presidency, which did not want another scandal in the press. “The fraud was perpetrated some weeks ago but it was kind of hushed up so that it would not leak to the press,” the source said. ....