Tag: Aides
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None of my aides has gone into hiding to evade EFCC areest – Okorocha
Former Imo governor Rochas Okorocha has denied reports claiming that some of his aides had gone into hiding to evade arrest by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). A media report had claimed that aides of the former governor had disappeared from the state ostensibly to avoid being arrested by personnel of the anti-corruption…
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Gov. El-Rufai appoints Chief of Staff, 7 other aides
Gov. Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has appointed Muhammad Sani Abdullahi, the immediate past Commissioner for Planning and Budget, as Chief of Staff. This was contained in a statement by Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner-Designate, Internal Security and Home Affairs, on Friday in Kaduna. The statement said the governor also appointed seven other officials, including new heads…
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Akeredolu’s aides defects to PDP
Two aides of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State have resigned their appointments. The two politicians who resigned were Mr. Akopebi Lubi and Dr. Benson Enikuomehin, who were both Senior Special Assistant and Special Assistant to the governor, respectively. Both Lubi and Enikuomehin were said to have joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Meanwhile, Governor…
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2019: Amosun’s defection plan thickens as top aides move to dump APC for ADP, others
Indications emerged on Sunday that Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State may have perfected his defection plans despite holding peace meetings with President Muhammadu Buhari and other stakeholders last week. Baring any last minute change of plans, some close associates of the governor might likely defect this week as a precursor to the governor’s impending…
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Trouble for Tambuwal as he loses 252 aides to APC
In what appears like a political earthquake, 252 Special advisers and Special assistants appointed by Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto state have resigned their appointments. And they have returned to the All Progressives Congress, instead of working under a PDP government. Alhaji Ibrahim Haske, a special adviser to the renegade governor and spokesman for all…
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Photos: Again, Buhari receives Lai Mohammed, Adeshina, others, insists ‘Only my doctors can tell when I’ll return to Nigeria’
President Muhammadu Buhari has again insisted on Saturday that only his doctors can determine his return date to Nigeria. TheNewsGuru.com reports that President Buhari traveled for medical check-up in London on Sunday, May 7, more than a month he came back into the country from a previous medical vacation. According to a statement by his…
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Saraki sacks 98 aides
Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki has reportedly sacked 98 of his aides. Sources in the Senate said most of the affected aides are staff of the National Assembly Management who were deployed in the Office of the President of the Senate. However, both Saraki’s Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr. Yusuph Olaniyonu; and his…
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Sun Trust Bank denies withholding National Assembly aides’ salaries
The management of Sun Trust Bank on Wednesday denied reports that it withheld the salaries of legislative aides in the National Assembly salaries. Mr Usman Abdulqadir, Executive Director for Finance and Risk, made this known at the press briefing in Lagos. Abdulqadir said the bank had executed all mandates given to it with respect to…