Tag: Minister
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Again, EFCC traces N47b, $487m to embattled former Petroleum Minister, Diezani
SOME OF THE ASSETS A block of six units serviced apartments at 135, Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos 21 mixed housing units of eight four-bedroom apartments, two penthouse apartments of three-bedrooms each and six three-bedroom (all en-suite) terrace apartments in Yaba A twin four-bedroom duplex at Lekki Phase one, Lagos A large expanse of land…
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NHIS Executive Secretary dares Osinbajo, minister, says ‘only Buhari can suspend me’
The Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme(NHIS), Prof. Usman Yusuf has rejected the recent directive by the Minister of Health to go on three months suspension. TheNewsGuru.com reports that Yusuf was last week ordered by the Minister of Health Prof. Isaac Adewole to proceed on three months suspension to pave way for an…
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Mugabe’s former minister to challenge him in 2018 presidential poll
Nkosana Moyo, former Industry and International Trade Minister, in Zimbabwe on Thursday launched a political party in a bid to contest for 2018 presidency, news agency reported on Thursday. Moyo is a former minister in President Robert Mugabe’s government. He told journalists that his decision to contest in the polls followed pressure from many quarters.…
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India’s agriculture minister caught urinating in public
Indian Agriculture Minister Radha Singh was on Thursday caught on camera urinating in public, prompting angry reactions from citizens on social media with some calling for his ouster. In the photo that has gone viral, Singh was seen peeing on a wall of a compound, while his security guards stood close-by. Several people took to…
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Minister sacks 789 prostitutes from Abuja
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Muhammad Bello has disclosed that over 789 prostitutes and other destitutes have been repatriated to their various states of origin within the last two years of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. Bello disclosed this to newsmen at a media parley in Abuja. According to him: “Majority of these…
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N23bn Diezani bribe: EFCC arraigns Jonathan’s ex-FCT minister, Akinjide, today
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, will on Thursday (today) arraign a former Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory, Jumoke Akinjide, for allegedly receiving N650m from a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, during the countdown to the 2015 general election. The money was said to be part of the $115m…
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Court sentences Somali soldier to death for ‘mistakenly’ killing minister
A court martial on Monday sentenced a Somali soldier to death for killing a government minister after mistaking him for an Islamist militant. Public works minister Abbas Siraji was shot dead on May 3, in his car in the capital Mogadishu. Soldier Ahmed Abdulahi Ahmed, was condemned to death by a military court “for mistakenly…
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Buhari in competent hands, no cause for alarm – Lai Mohammed
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, again on Wednesday assured Nigerians that there is no cause for alarm over the state of health of President Muhammadu Buhari who is currently in London, the United Kingdom for medical follow-up. He said the President was in competent hands in the British capital. Mohammed gave…