Tag: Ministers

  • IG withdraws mobile policemen from ex-govs, ministers, lawmakers, VIPs

    IG withdraws mobile policemen from ex-govs, ministers, lawmakers, VIPs

    The Federal Government has withdrawn the Mobile Police Force personnel attached to several Very Important Persons, including ex-governors, former ministers and lawmakers. The order, which was contained in a police wireless message from Mopol 45 Force Headquarters, Abuja, affected Daura Buhari, brother to former President Muhammadu Buhari as well as former First Lady, Aisha Buhari’s…

  • Governors, lawmakers, others get slots from  proposed 774,000 jobs to concur

    Governors, lawmakers, others get slots from proposed 774,000 jobs to concur

    As recruitment begins in October The wrangling over the 774,000 public works jobs initiated by the Federal Government might have been resolved with slots allocated to lawmakers. Besides Senators and House of Representatives members, governors and ministers will also make nominations. The process of recruitment which the National Assembly tried to halt, after a clash…

  • Buhari’s Ministers Gets Portfolios

    Buhari’s Ministers Gets Portfolios

    President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated his long-awaited cabinet in Abuja today. The President also assigned portfolios to the ministers. The list of ministers and their portfolios are listed below: Uchechukwu Samson Ogah (Abia) – Minister of State Mines And Steel. Muhammadu Bello (Adamawa) – Minister of FCT God’swill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom) – Minister of Niger…

  • Buhari raises committee on ministers portfolios

    Buhari raises committee on ministers portfolios

    The battle for slots – and the speculations – in the 43-man cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari intensified yesterday, with ministers-designate trying to outwit one another. The President is said to have raised a Kitchen Cabinet advisory committee on how to put a round peg in a round hole. The advisory committee is said to…

  • $2b Bank Fraud: FG Probes 2 Serving Ministers, Ex-CBN Gov

    $2b Bank Fraud: FG Probes 2 Serving Ministers, Ex-CBN Gov

    * 65,000 lose shares to phoney offshore entities * Probe follows last month’s petition to AGF by aggrieved shareholders  The Federal Government has launched a probe into how a former Central Bank Governor connived with two serving ministers in the present administration to rip off no fewer than 65,000 Nigerians through official manipulation and transfer…