President Muhammadu Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, has criticized Yoruba nation agitators and the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) for protesting against his principal at the United Nations.
Naija News reports that the presidential spokesman in an article titled ‘My takeaways from the 76th UN general assembly session’, described the protest in New York, US, during the United Nations event as “tribal bullying of government officials”.
According to him, “While President Buhari was focusing on the problems plaguing the nation and in some instances asking for international support to deal with such, a coalition of groups protested outside the UN building.
Shehu then criticized the Yoruba nation agitators for associating with IPOB, stressing that they are “demonstrating there is little difference in their beliefs or their intent”.
He stated that many Nigerians were disconcerted by the “tribal bullying of government officials as they moved to carry out their diligent work between the Nigerian Mission in New York and the UN building, a walkable distance of less than 400 meters”.
No fewer than 159 private organizations, communities, and institutions of higher learning have been licensed to operate radio and television stations in Nigeria.
Naija News understands that the development was contained in a statement released on Tuesday by the National Broadcasting Commission following President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval of the proposed stations.
Speaking on the development in Abuja, NBC Director-General, Balarabe Ilelah, said: “Following the approval granted by the president, NBC has released the list of 159 licenses granted to companies, communities and institutions of higher learning.
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