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President Bola Tinubu and members of his furniture were heard reciting the aged Nigerian nationalist anthem during a Federal Executive Council, FEC, gathering on Monday, contempt the Federal Government’s reintroduction of the erstwhile anthem successful May 2024.
The improvement was observed successful a video from the FEC gathering circulating connected assorted societal media platforms.
The video showed President Tinubu and ministers reciting “Arise, O Compatriots”, the anthem that was officially replaced connected May 29, 2024, erstwhile the President signed the National Anthem Bill 2024 into law, restoring “Nigeria, We Hail Thee” arsenic Nigeria’s authoritative nationalist anthem.
The alteration to “Nigeria, We Hail Thee” followed the signing of the National Anthem Act, 2024, which replaced the anthem adopted successful 1978 with the country’s erstwhile nationalist anthem archetypal utilized astatine independency successful 1960.
As astatine the clip of filing this report, the Presidency has not offered immoderate mentation connected wherefore the aged anthem was recited during the FEC meeting.
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