ABSTRACT
Few Heads of State or government is face a more strenuous working day than the President of Nigeria. He makes the first of his five daily prayers. After taking a bath and having his breakfast, he is in his State House office before 8 o’clock. Mikail Prest is tall and slim, with an academic appearance. When the President appointed him in 1979 he was 43. His father, the late Chief Arthur Prest, was an Action Group Minister in Sir Abubakar’s Cabinet with Shehu Shagari. He finally became a judge. Among officials very close to the President is the Chief of Protocol, whose job is little understood by those who suppose that it concerns only matters such as precedence on official occasions. In fact, the holder of the day’s appointment, Alhaji Yusuf W. Sada, who comes from Katsina and was bom in 1927, has many highly practical duties.
