Today's Headlines: Uproar As Tinubu Shuns NJC, Appoints New CCT Chair, Ex-Kogi Gov, Yahaya Bello, his successor, Ododo visit Wike in Abuja

Today's Headlines: Uproar As Tinubu Shuns NJC, Appoints New CCT Chair, Ex-Kogi Gov, Yahaya Bello, his successor, Ododo visit Wike in Abuja

Uproar As Tinubu Shuns NJC, Appoints New CCT Chair



President Bola Tinubu has once again bypassed the National Judicial Council (NJC) and the Federal Judicial Service Commission (FJSC) by unilaterally appointing Dr. Mainasara Umar Kogo as Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT).


PRNigeria reports that Kogo’s latest appointment by Tinubu was communicated in a letter dated January 20, 2025, signed by Senator George Akume, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF).

The effective date of the appointment was also backdated to November 27, 2024, raising further concerns about transparency and whether constitutional procedures were followed.

The appointment comes seven months after former presidential spokesperson, Ajuri Ngelale, announced in July 2024 that Dr. Mainasara Kogo would assume the role, even though the tenure of the substantive chairman, Justice Danladi Umar, had not yet expired due to retirement age. The move was widely criticised as unconstitutional and illegal.

Ex-Kogi Gov, Yahaya Bello, his successor, Ododo visit Wike in Abuja




The former Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, visited the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, at his Abuja residence on Thursday afternoon.

Bello was accompanied by his successor and current Governor, Ahmed Usman Ododo.

The visit was disclosed in a statement by the minister’s spokesman, Lere Olayinka, on X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday.

While no official reason for the visit has been provided, there is speculation that it may be an attempt to forge new alliances with key members of President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet.

Musk Faults Trump’s $500bn AI Initiative






SpaceX boss, Elon Musk on Wednesday criticised a $500 billion Artificial Intelligence project announced by United States President Donald Trump, saying the money promised for the investment actually was not available.

The comments marked a rare instance of a split between Trump and Musk who played a crucial part in getting the newly inaugurated President into power and spending $270 million on the election campaign.

Trump on Tuesday announced a major investment to build infrastructure for AI, led by Japanese giant SoftBank and ChatGPT-maker, OpenAI.



Trump said the venture, called Stargate, “will invest $500 billion, at least, in AI infrastructure in the United States.”

But in a post on his social media platform X, Musk said the main investors “don’t actually have the money.”

“SoftBank has well under $10bn secured. I have that on good authority,” Musk added in a subsequent post.

Trump to attend WEF virtually


Donald Trump will star in an eagerly-anticipated online appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, addressing global elites whose annual gabfest has been consumed by the US president’s days-old second term.

Trump’s name has come up in almost every conversation in the Swiss Alpine village this week — in formal panel discussions, in shuttles ferrying people up and down the mountain, and in exclusive parties along the promenade.

Davos will finally hear from the man himself during a live video appearance, with banking and oil industry CEOs given the chance to lob questions at Trump, himself a businessman who made his fortune in real estate.

One of the Republican president’s biggest cheerleaders on the world stage, Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei, took the stage hours before Trump, delivering a fiery speech against “the mental virus of woke ideology”.




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