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The new notes were unveiled on the 23rd of November 2022. [5] No changes were made on the existing features, only the overall colour of the note was changed. [6] President Muhammad Buhari said that the old 200 notes could be used till 10 April 2023. The notes are still in use.
Buhari is today known for this crisis; there even is a famine in the east of Niger that have been named "El Buhari". [69] His regime drew criticism from many, including Nigeria's first Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka, who, in 2007, wrote a piece called "The Crimes of Buhari" [70] which outlined many of the abuses conducted under his military rule.
Nigeria's Independence Day is a public holiday observed annually on 1 October to commemorate the country's declaration of independence from British rule in 1960. It marked the end of over sixty years of colonial governance and the emergence of Nigeria as a self-governing constitutional monarchy within the Commonwealth of Nations.
But the president's senior aides and family members have publicly spoken in support of the bill. In November 2019, the wife of the president, Aisha Buhari, told a gathering at the Nigeria's National Mosque in the capital, Abuja that if China with over one billion people could regulate the social media, Nigeria should do same.
In 2018 Muhammadu Buhari, now a civilian president of Nigeria under its Fourth Republic, declared 12 June – the date of the annulled 1993 election as the new date for the celebration of Democracy Day. [15] The previous Democracy Day was 29 May, the date of the return to civilian rule in May 1999 following Abacha's regime. [16]
On 29 May 2015, Buhari was sworn in as President of Nigeria, becoming the first opposition figure to win a presidential election since independence in 1960. [5] On 29 May 2019, Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in for a second term as Nigeria's president, after winning the presidential election in February 2019.
May 29 was initially the official democracy day in Nigeria, marking when the newly elected Olusegun Obasanjo took office as President of Nigeria.On June 6, 2018, eight days after May 29, 2018, had been celebrated as Democracy Day, the government of president Muhammadu Buhari declared June 12 to be the new Democracy Day. [12]
Following their victory at the poll in 2019, President Buhari appointed Ngelale as his senior special adviser on public affairs and served in this position till 2023 when Buhari left office. [14] In October 2022, Ngelale was appointed co-principal spokesperson of Tinubu-Shettima Presidential campaign Organization. [ 15 ]