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Elegbeleye Hails Sunday Dare’s Appointment
Chairman of the nation’s first tie league, NPFL, Hon. Gbenga Elegbeleye, has congratulated the former minister of Sports and Youth development, Chief Sunday Akin Dare over his recent appointment as Special Adviser to president Bola Tinubu on Public Communication and national Orientation.
Elegbeleye, a former Director General of the National Sports Commission and member of the House of Representatives Sports Committee hailed president Tinubu for the appointment of the former minister, who he described as a renowned and experienced media expert who would add much value to the president’s administration.
Elegbeleye in a statement he signed on Friday noted that president Tinubu has made a very good and commendable choice in Chief Sunday Dare noting that the former minister has excelled in all his previous engagements, with the required experience to add to the already existing media team that would continue to crest the awareness on the milestone achievements of the Tinubu administration.
He said, “Chief Sunday Akin Dare is an illustrious media mogul whose nearly three decades experience from both local and international media organizations has excelled him to stand out in his other assignments.
“President Tinunu made a perfect choice in Chief Sunday Dare, having garnered lots of experience in the media industry. He is a very big asset to the president in the area of media communication and national orientation with his return to a very familiar terrain.
His vast experience has made him very exceptional in his service to his country, especially his recent assignment as minister of Youth and Sports development, where he brought in reforms that relaunched Nigeria into a major continental and world sporting nation.
“I have no doubt that Chief Sunday Dare will once more showcase his skill and wealth of experience in his new assignment, having performed above expectations in his previous ones.”
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Musawa Seeks Broader Significance for June 12
Joel Ajayi
The Minister of Art, Culture, Tourism and the Creative Economy, Hannatu Musa Musawa, Esq., says June 12 must be remembered as a sacrifice that gave Nigerians democracy, beyond its status as a public holiday.
In a statement signed on Saturday by the Senior Assistant Media & Publicity to the Honourable Minister,Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Tourism and the Creative Economy Dr Nneka Ikem Anibeze Ph.D in Abuja.
Musawa stated this at the national premiere of “MKO”, a film on Chief Moshood Abiola, held at the Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and Creative Arts, Lagos, to mark Nigeria’s 66th Independence Anniversary.
She said 33 years after June 12, 1993, many young Nigerians know it only as a holiday, but the film turns it back into memory.
“For too many young Nigerians, June 12 is simply a public holiday. This film tells them that our democracy did not arrive by chance. It was fought for. It was defended. It was paid for. This documentary is in honour of the heroes of June 12, the men and women who gave their lives for the mandate of June 12, 1993 and for the democracy Nigeria enjoys today,” the Minister said.
Musawa hailed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Chief Host, for his participation in the June 12 struggle and paying the price in exile, adding that Nigeria’s creative industry will keep telling the story of its democracy with courage.
“Through film and the creative economy, Nigeria will preserve its history. A nation that forgets its past loses its way to the future. Nigeria has a story and our story deserves to be told,” she said.
Earlier, the director of the investigative documentary, Ose Oyamendan, said the film was in honour and memory of heroes who fought for Nigeria’s democracy.
“There was Hope ’93 and now there is Renewed Hope. There was a man who sacrificed his life so we may have democracy and there is a man who almost lost his life fighting for democracy who is now helping build a lasting democracy.
“There was a great man called Bashorun MKO Abiola and there is now another great man called Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Democrats. Nationalists. Nation builders. Leaders of men and women. We must never forget our story. We must always honour and remember our heroes,” Oyamendan said.
Top government officials including President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the wife of the President Senator Oluremi Tinubu; Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Speaker of the House of Representatives Tajudeen Abbas, Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, Chief of Staff to the President Rt. Femi Gbajabiamila, state Governors, members of the National Assembly, Ministers and other distinguished dignitaries attended the premiere.
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