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President Bola Tinubu has nominated his tax reform Csar, Taiwo Oyedele, to replace Dr. Doris Anite-Uzoka as Minister of State for Finance, thereby elevating the man who spearheaded Nigeria’s most ambitious tax overhaul, into the role of deputy finance chief in a fresh cabinet shake-up. As the Minister of State, Anite-Uzoka will now move to the […]
Continue ReadingTwo presidents, one from Nigeria the other from São Tomé and Príncipe, and many dignitaries from Nigeria and other countries converged in Abuja on Friday, February 6, for the wedding fatiha of 10 children of the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, who all got married in one day. The wedding ceremony held in […]
Continue ReadingFormer Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, was on Friday arraigned before an Abuja High Court sitting in Gwarinpa by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged N2.2bn contract fraud. Justice Maryam Hassan ordered that the former minister be remanded at the Kuje prison pending the hearing of his bail application, […]
Continue ReadingMinister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, has been elected as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The emergence of the Minister was formally announced on Thursday during the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the APC at the State House, Abuja, Nigeria. Yilwatda was adopted as a “consensus […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement signed by the Director of Press, Mr. Jacob Mokwa, on Saturday, the Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Dr. Oluwatoyin Madein, has denied a report that her office honoured the request to pay N585 million into a private account as directed by the Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu. […]
Continue ReadingA bodyguard has shot and killed a government Minister in Uganda early Tuesday in an apparent private dispute, according to the army and local media. The attacker, who has not been publicly identified, then turned the gun on himself, according to state broadcaster UBC and others. The victim, Charles Engola, served in the government of […]
Continue ReadingQueen Naomi Silekunola has released a video addressing women as a “minister” on International Women’s Day. This is the first post she’s shared since she announced her split from the Ooni of Ife. Her post announcing the split remains on Instagram. Speaking in the new video, the Olori told women that she is speaking to […]
Continue ReadingPresident Buhari’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Sheikh Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, could have casually slithered through public office with scant notice if he could delete his past. Unfortunately he cannot run faster than the jagged shadows from his past. In these parts, a ministerial portfolio with an oversized office and some fancy title […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, says international flights will resume in the country on August 29, 2020. Sirika said this in a tweet on Monday. The Minister tweeted, “Glad to announce the resumption of international flights from the August 29, 2020 beginning with Lagos and Abuja as we did with the domestic flight resumption. […]
Continue ReadingDomestic flights earlier suspended in March as one of the measures to control the spread of coronavirus, are to resume at the nation’s airports from Sunday 21 June 2020, the federal government has said. Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika who disclosed this at Monday’s briefing of the Presidential Task Force, PTF, on COVID-19, said […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Minister of State for Health, Olororunnimbe Mamora, says President Buhari has resolved to curb medical tourism. Mamora spoke on Monday in Abuja when a team from CPL Medical Group Limited, a local engineering company engaged in the rehabilitation of teaching hospitals in the country, paid him a visit. In 2017, Buhari spent about […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Minister of Interior, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, has said that the federal government is committed to decongesting the correctional facilities across the country by reducing the number of awaiting trial inmates. At the public hearing organised by the National Assembly Joint Committee on Appropriation on Wednesday, Mr Aregbesola spoke, according to the Vanguard newspaper. Aregbesola […]
Continue ReadingThe Federal Government on Saturday promised to address the housing deficit by delivering one million houses per year to close the 17 million shortfall by the year 2033. The Minister of State, Works and Housing, Mr Abubakar Aliyu, disclosed this in Abuja on Saturday during an inspection of the Federal Housing Authority mass housing project […]
Continue ReadingThe Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has, Thursday, demanded the arrest and immediate prosecution of Nigerian Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika for reportedly using a non-existent national carrier to defraud the nation to the tune of N1.2 billion In a statement issued by PDP’s spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party has also challenged President Muhammadu Buhari […]
Continue ReadingAgain, a serving Nigerian Minister under Buhari has been found to have skipped the mandatory national youth service scheme, an offence that may see him lose his position and earn him jail term. Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, failed to participate in the NYSC scheme despite graduating from the then University of Ife (now Obafemi […]
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