ABUJA — The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has challenged the release of the travel documents of a former Minister of Works, Hassan Muhammed Lawal, who is being prosecuted alongside 13 others over a N75 billion fraud at a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, stating that the move is a ploy by the […]
President Goodluck Jonathan has forwarded the nomination of former Minister of Finance Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-iweala as a ministerial nominee to the Senate.Senate President David Mark read out the correspondence to his colleagues yesterday. In a dramatic move, President Jonathan withdrew the nomination of Architect Tonye Cole from Rivers as a ministerial nominee. No replacement was […]
Nigerian women living abroad have urged President Goodluck Jonathan to consider appointing two women from the Diaspora as Ministers of Women Affairs and Health. When appointed, they believe the women will bring freshness and newness to the country’s democratic life. The Diaspora national coordinator, Women for Change and Development Initiative, Dr. Stella Alhassan, told Sunday […]
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TWELVE returnee Ministers and two new ministerial appointees, yesterday, took the oath of office and allegiance before President Goodluck Jonathan at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa Abuja, with the President directing the 12 returnees to return back to the Ministries they superintended before the dissolution of the cabinet on May 29. The ministers […]
SET to recover about one month already lost since his swearing-in, President Goodluck Jonathan will today swear-in the first batch of ministers confirmed by the Senate of the Federal Republic on Wednesday and Thursday. The ceremony which holds at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, is schedule for 11a.m.; and it is expected to […]
THE long wait for the ministers’ list may end tomorrow as President Goodluck Jonathan is set to present to the Senate. With that, an end would have come to the vacillation by the President over his choice of who should be ministers and Nigerians would heave a sigh of a relief that real governance can, […]
Confusion has continued to trail the bid by President Goodluck Jonathan to constitute a new cabinet amid consistent protests against some of the ministerial nominees which the presidency had shortlisted for appointment. Protests against the nominees had spread across the federation even as group of PDP members in the south-west are set to hold a […]
NOW, President Goodluck Jonathan is at liberty to attach portfolios or refrain when he sends the ministerial list to the Senate, hopefully next week. This follows the Senate decision to shift ground on earlier insistence that the President’s attachment of portfolios to the list was mandatory. Senate President David Mark confirmed the new position yesterday […]
THE name of former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Ghali Umar Na’Abba, tops the list of ministerial nominees, whose screening is being finalised at the headquarters of the State Security Service (SSS). Sources confirmed to the Nigerian Tribune that while Na’Abba’s name did not emanate from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kano […]
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