President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has signed the bill seeking to reintroduce the old national anthem into law.
President of the Senate Godswill Akpabio, announced this at the joint sitting of the National Assembly on Wednesday.
Akpabio said the president signed the bill into law on Wednesday morning.
President Bola Tinubu, who later joined the joint session, confirmed ‘Nigeria, we hail thee’ as the “latest national anthem”.
Akpabio said the sitting was primarily to launch the new national anthem, explaining that the President would not be making a speech because he has to leave to launch the Abuja metro line.
The Senate and the House of Representatives had previously passed the legislation to swap the national anthem from “Arise, O Compatriots” to “Nigeria, We Hail Thee” at separate sittings.
Following the signing of the bill by President Tinubu to reintroduce the old national anthem, the joint sitting jettisoned what has been in existence since 1978, to adopt the former (and newly signed) national anthem ‘Nigeria, we hail thee’.
The old anthem, “Nigeria, we hail thee”, composed when Nigeria gained independence on October 1, 1960, replaces the “Arise, O Compatriots” anthem.
Students and pupils in schools are expected to comply with the new law and learn the once was Anthem again.
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