Strong indications emerged on Saturday that core politicians may have a limited place in the new cabinet being put together by President Goodluck Jonathan. The development, SUNDAY PUNCH gathered, is already causing bad blood between the nation’s political class and technocrats as the chances of the former get slimmer by the day. Our correspondents learnt […]
President Goodluck Jonathan is to announce his new cabinet immediately after the May 29 inauguration, his spokesman, Mr. Ima Niboro said yesterday. He told correspondents in Abuja, that the President was mindful of how short his new four-year term is and wants to start work with his new team immediately after the inauguration. His words, […]
THOSE who hope for a reduction in the number of federal ministers may have to wait a while, because President Goodluck Jonathan has indicated that such a move is beyond his power since it is a constitutional issue. The president said in a valedictory session with members of the Presidential Advisory Council (PAC), led by […]
For the second time in less than two weeks, Justice Bilikisu Aliyu of the Federal High Court, Abuja has turned down the bail application of former minister of works, Dr Hassan Muhammad Lawal. The embattled former minister was on Tuesday arraigned on a nine-count charge of money laundering, amounting to N42 million. Aliyu had only […]
Dr Mansur Muhtar, Former Minister of Finance, has been appointed to the Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank as alternate Executive Director Muhtar said on Tuesday in Abuja that the appointment had created an additional space for Africa in the bank. He said the appointment would strategically position Africa and give it more […]
Fourteen days to the end of the present administration, President Goodluck Jonathan has directed his ministers to prepare their handover notes. Two ministers, who disclosed this to one of our correspondents in Abuja on Sunday, said all of them had started clearing their tables preparatory to the dissolution of the Federal Executive Council. The […]
A former Minister of Works, Dr. Hassan Lawal, and his alleged accomplice, Dr. Adeogba Ademola, were on Wednesday sent back to prison custody on the orders of Justice Bilikisu Aliyu of a Federal High Court in Abuja, pending the determination of their bail applications. The court also ordered that the representatives of the companies […]
Indications emerged on Saturday that some of the Peoples Democratic Party governors who failed to secure a second term in office in the just concluded elections are lobbying for ministerial appointments in President Goodluck Jonathan’s new cabinet. Also, some ex-governors, particularly those whose tenures were cut short at election tribunals, are also making moves […]
Going by facts that emerged from President Goodluck Jonathan’s seven-day retreat in Obudu Ranch, Cross River State, many politicians hoping to make the President’s next cabinet are in for the shock of their lives. An investigation on Friday by SATURDAY PUNCH showed that the President, who had begun nationwide consultations, would not limit the […]
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has advised President Goodluck Jonathan to be cautious in choosing people that will work in his cabinet during his four-year tenure. “I have no advice to anybody on making a government but all I will say is that a leader will be judged on the type of people he builds around […]
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