A statement by Vice-. Laolu Akande, quoted the vice-president as saying Nigeria had broken the jinx of a decade of decline in global rankings on the ease.
Continued on page 8. No Price: N Abdulrasheed Maina, has finally broken his silence on the multi-billion naira pension fraud that took place when he was in charge of the reform task force four years ago, alleging that N million was. The confidence vote by the party came just as Buhari yielded to pressure to retool the federal cabinet so as to inject fresh ideas that will improve governance.
Apparently responding to agitations by his party men who had complained of being shortchanged in appointments, the president in his opening speech at the meeting, said he would expand the cabinet to accommodate more supporters of the party, whom he said would inject fresh ideas into the government. He equally promised to make public soon appointments into the boards of federal government parastatals. The president said he regretted that the boards of the parastatals had not been constituted two years after he made the promise, blaming the delay on the committees saddled with the responsibility of ensuring equitable representation on the boards across the country.
I most regret the fact that we have not done so for many reasons. Some of us in this meeting may know I had given instructions since October for this exercise to start. By the Grace of God, these appointments will be announced soon, especially now that the economy is improving, we will have the resources to cater for the appointees.
Buhari who thanked the party. He also thanked the state governors whom he said maintained unity and tolerance among their communities in the face of the stiff challenges confronting them as he proceeded to reel out what he described as the achievements of his administration. According to him, progress had been made in the fight against Boko Haram and other areas including peace in the Niger Delta, regular fuel supply, improved power supply, agriculture and the fight against corruption.
