Queen Naomi Silekunola speaks to women as a ‘minister’ to mark International Women’s Day

Queen 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 […]

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Mr. President, Let this Minister Go, By Chidi Amuta

President 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 […]

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International flights resumes in Nigeria on Aug 29 –Minister

Nigerian 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. […]

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Domestic flights to resume on June 21 in Nigeria –Minister

Domestic 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 […]

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Buhari determined to curb medical tourism -Minister

  Nigerian 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 […]

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New law will help decongest Nigerian prisons –Minister

Nigeria’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 […]

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Nigerian govt to deliver one million houses yearly —Minister

The 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 […]

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PDP demands arrest of Aviation Minister Sirika for alleged N1.2bn fraud

The 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 […]

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Another serving Minister skips National Youth Service

Again, 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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