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Wednesday, 21 August 2019 13:10

Here are the Ministers and their portfolios

1) Uchechukwu Ogah – Abia, Mines and Steel Development, State 2) Muhammed Musa Bello – Adamawa, FCT 3) Godswill Akpabio – Akwa Ibom, Niger Delta 4) Chris Ngige – Anambra, Labour & Employment 5) Sharon Ikeazor – Anambra, Environment, State 6) Adamu Adamu – Bauchi, Education 7) Maryam Katagum – Bauchi, Industry, Trade and Investment, State 8) Timipre Silva – Bayelsa, Petroleum, State 9) George Akume – Benue, Special Duties 10) Mustapha Baba Shehuri – Borno, Agriculture, State 11) Godwin Jedi-Agba – Cross River, Power, State 12) Festus Keyamo – Delta, Niger Delta, State 13) Ogbonnaya Onu - Ebonyi, Science…

Wednesday, 21 August 2019 05:28

Pass through my Chief of Staff to see me, Buhari tells ministers-designate

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday told incoming ministers that all requests for meetings with him should pass through his chief of staff, Mr Abba Kyari. Mr Buhari said this in his closing remarks at a presidential retreat for ministers-designate in Abuja. “In terms of coordination, kindly ensure that all submissions for my attention or meeting requests be channelled through Chief of Staff, while all Federal Executive Council matters be coordinated through Secretary to the Government of the Federation,” Buhari said. Kyari has been criticised by some Nigerians including members of the ruling party, APC, for his influence over the president.…

Wednesday, 21 August 2019 05:27

Buhari appoints new heads of federal agencies

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved replacements for heads of Federal Government agencies recently appointed as ministers. A statement by the president’s spokesman, Mr Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Tuesday, said Mr Basheer Mohammed was appointed Federal Commissioner, National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons. Mohammed replaces Sadiya Umar Farouk, a minister-designate from Zamfara. According to the statement, Chioma Ejikeme has been appointed Executive Secretary, Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate, replacing Sharon O. Ikeazor, while Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi is now Director General/CEO, National Information Technology Development Agency. “For Executive Commissioner (Stakeholder Management), Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Mr Buhari has forwarded…

Wednesday, 21 August 2019 05:25

Southeast govs plead with Buhari over airport closure, herdsmen

Governors in Nigeria’s southeast have written to President Muhammadu Buhari urging him to delay the closure of Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, and act against insecurity in the region. South East Governors Forum also asked the president to approve its earlier decision banning herders who have no cattle, as well as the movement of cattle by foot in the region. Coming three days after a senior politician from the region, Mr Ike Ekweremadu, physically assaulted in Germany, the governors said they were making the letter public to assuage public allegations that they were not doing enough to check growing insecurity…

Tuesday, 20 August 2019 05:50

What Buhari told ministers-designate at retreat

PRESS RELEASE President Muhammadu Buhari Monday presided over the opening day of a Presidential Retreat for Ministers-designate and senior Government officials. The Retreat follows screening and confirmation of the Ministers-designate by the National Assembly, and holds ahead of their swearing-in by the President on Wednesday, August 21, 2019, at the State House. In the first technical presentation of the Retreat, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo delivered an overview of the work of the Policies, Programmes and Projects Audit Committee (PPPAC), established by Mr Buhari in March 2019 and chaired by the Vice President, with a mandate to review the performance in…

Tuesday, 20 August 2019 05:49

Head of Service sends retirement letter to Buhari over fraud allegations

Mrs Winifred Oyo-Ita, head of service of the federation, has offered to immediately proceed on retirement in a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari. The widow had been under pressure from her immediate family to retire after news reports emerged that she was being probed over an alleged N3 billion contract scam. Although she has vehemently denied involvement in any scam, she bowed to family pressures and sent in a letter on Sunday offering to proceed on retirement, TheCable can report. Buhari is yet to take a final decision on it but it was learnt that he is favourably disposed to…

Tuesday, 20 August 2019 05:48

Court orders CBN to pay N8bn to Benue communities invaded by Obasanjo

Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, on Monday, directed Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to forthwith, pay the sum of N8 billion to Tiv communities in Logo, Ukum, Kwande and Katsina-Ala Local Government Areas of Benue State, to cover for damages they suffered when their towns were invaded in 2001 by soldiers of Nigerian Army. The court, in a ruling by Mr Iyang Ekwo, made the garnishee order to enforce a consent judgment the Enugu State Division of the Court of Appeal delivered on February 2, 2015. Even though Ekwo earlier granted an application the communities brought for the…

Tuesday, 20 August 2019 05:46

Universities shut as workers begin warning strike

Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and Non-Academic Staff Union have commenced a five-day warning strike on Monday, following a directive from Joint Action Committee to all branch Chairmen of the unions across the country. According to a letter, dated August 16, jointly signed by General Secretary of NASU, Mr Peter Adeyemi, and National president of SSANU, Mr Samson Ogoeke, the members were directed to embark on a warning strike on Monday, August 19, 2019. The leadership of both unions explained that the industrial action, followed the expiration of the 14-day ultimatum, which they gave to Federal Government. Also, the…

Monday, 19 August 2019 05:03

Buhari queries FIRS boss, says Fowler’s performance worse than under Jonathan

President Muhammadu Buhari has queried the chief executive of Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr Babatunde Fowler, over worsening tax collection since 2015. Sources within FIRS confirmed the development on Sunday after a letter querying Fowler’s low performance appeared on social media in the morning. In the query stamp-dated August 8, by Chief of Staff to the President, Mr Abba Kyari, said the presidency “observed significant variances between the budgeted collections and actual collections for the period 2015 to 2018.” Since 2015, FIRS under Fowler has not been able to meet collection targets, a different trend from the preceding years.…

Monday, 19 August 2019 05:02

Tension as Yoruba, Hausa clash in Lagos market

Two persons were feared killed and many others injured on Sunday as Yoruba and Hausa traders clashed at Ilepo Market in the Oke Odo area of Lagos State. Acoording to eyewitness account, a Hausa porter, popularly known as Alabo or Bolar boy, mistakenly hit a Yoruba man with the tray he was using to convey goods for traders. The disagreement was said to have degenerated into a fight between the duo. Soon, hoodlums from both ethnic groups took over the fight, which turned to a free-for-all. Policemen from Oke Odo Division deployed in the area were reported to have shot…

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Monday, 19 August 2019 05:00

FG, senate president, Southeast govs, others condemn attack on Ekweremadu in Germany

As widespread outrage trails the harassment and humiliation of immediate past deputy senate president, Mr Ike Ekweremadu, Federal Government has called on German authorities to ensure that the mastermind face consequences of their actions. This is even as Senate President Ahmad Lawan, Senate Minority Leader Enyinnaya Abaribe, South East governors, former Leader of Senate, Ali Ndume and Toby Okechukwu, Deputy Minority Leader of House of Representatives, have condemned the attack carried out by Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Delta State Governor, Mr Ifeanyi Okowa also condemned the attack. PDP in a…

Monday, 19 August 2019 04:59

Nnamdi Kanu threatens Ekweremadu-style attack on southeast govs who travel abroad

Leader of separatist group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mr Nnamdi Kanu, has offered N1 million reward for credible information on overseas travel itinerary of Southeast governors. The fugitive also warned other Igbo leaders except a senator, Mr Enyinnaya Abaribe, not to travel out of the country for their own good. Kanu announced this in a live broadcast on the rogue radio station, Radio Biafra, on Sunday night. He was speaking on the recent attack by some of his group’s members on a senator, Mr Ike Ekweremadu, in Germany and the spate of killings and kidnappings in southeast. He said…

Monday, 19 August 2019 04:58

Hong Kong protests: Huge crowds rally peacefully

Organisers say 1.7 million people turned out at Sunday's pro-democracy protest in Hong Kong, amid increasingly severe warnings by Beijing. Police put the figure much lower at 128,000, counting only those at an officially sanctioned rally. Activists and police have clashed over the past 11 weeks, but this weekend's protest remained peaceful. The protests were sparked by a controversial extradition bill, which has since been suspended. They have now morphed into a broader movement demanding democratic reform and an investigation into alleged police brutality. The protest's organisers, Civil Human Rights Front, were denied authorisation for a march through the city,…

Sunday, 18 August 2019 05:50

Boko Haram: Tears, solemnity at cemetery where hundreds of Nigerian soldiers lay in Maiduguri

It ought to be a desolate place like every other graveyard, but the casualties of the deadly war against insurgency entering its 10th year would not let it be. Nigerian Army 7 Division Cemetery in Maiduguri, Borno State, is sadly a busy place, no thanks to activities of Boko Haram. Scores of mourners and sympathizers accompanied five caskets being pushed along a pavement at the army cemetery. It was a familiar movement for the pavement as more than 1,000 people mostly families of troops killed in battlefield, as well as serving army personnel have walked on this sideway which thrust…

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