[responsivevoice] President Muhammadu Buhari has accepted the immediate resignation of the Service Chiefs, and their retirement from service. Those involved are the Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin; Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai; Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok Ekwe Ibas; and Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar. President…
The Legacies of Dauda Birma
[responsivevoice] Dauda Birma, a former education minister, passed away on Tuesday, January 5, 2021 at his home in Yola, Adamawa State, aged 80. He was a presidential aspirant under the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP. He was the Sarkin Gabas Adamawa, and Waziri of Garkida. He was born July 26, 1940 in Garkida, Gombi…
Professionalism In Extractive Industry Is Highly Essential says Adegbite, Minister of Mine & Steel
[responsivevoice] The importance of professionalism in the Extractive Industry cannot be overemphasized, as such, all hands must be on deck to ensure that the Council of Mining Engineers and Geoscientists (COMEG) succeeds in its mandate as the foremost regulator of the professionals in the sector. Olamilekan Adegbite, The Honorable Minister of Mines and Steel Development,…
Gov Abiodun Greets Buhari at 78, Prays for End of Challenges
[responsivevoice] Dapo Abiodun, the Ogun State governor rejoices with President Muhammadu Buhari on his 78 birthday. In a statement released by Kunle Somorin, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor made available to TELL, the governor he shares in the joy of the President’s birthday and wishes him well in the arduous task of nation-building. Abiodun…
Nda-Isaiah, Leadership Publisher is Dead
[responsivevoice] Sam Nda-Isaiah, the publisher of Leadership Newspaper is dead. Report of his death said he took ill after attending a board meeting on Thursday. He had earlier attended the AGM meeting of the Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria, NPAN on Wednesday in Lagos. Reports at the meeting said he looked healthy. A journalist of…
National Assembly Lacks Power to Summon Buhari over Security Matters, Says Malami
[responsivevoice] Abubakar Malami, senior advocate of Nigeria, SAN, attorney general of the Federation and minister of justice, Wednesday in Abuja, stated that the National Assembly lacks the constitutional power to summon President Muhammadu Buhari to explain security matters as requested by the House of Representatives last week. The House of Representatives had last week, irked…
Battle for Edo APC: Obaseki’s Faction in Dilemma as Ojezua Hints of Governor’s Feud with PDP
[responsivevoice] Against all expectations that the dissolution of all executive committees of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC across the country would resolve the protracted crisis in the Edo State chapter of the party, the development has indeed aggravated the crisis with the two factions laying claim to being the authentic state executive that would…
Shekarau Knocks Buhari over Service Chiefs
[responsivevoice] Former minister of education and two term governor of Kano State, currently the senator representing Kano Central senatorial district in the National Assembly, Ibrahim Shekarau has faulted the presidency on the tenure of service chiefs, stating that by continuing to keep them, President Muhammadu Buhari is in breach of the law. Shekarau asserted that…
NAPTIP Gets New Director-General
[responsivevoice] Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim has been appointed as the new Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) by President Muhammadu Buhari. Sulaiman-Ibrahim replaced the sacked Julie Okah-Donli. A lawyer from the South-South zone of the country, who has been the head of the agency since April 2017. According to a…
National Assembly Summons President Buhari over Insecurity
[responsivevoice] Amidst anger across Nigeria and globally over the massacre of over 43 farmers by Boko Haram insurgents in their rice farms at Zabarmari, Jere Local Government Area of Borno State on Saturday December 28, the House of Representatives Tuesday passed a resolution during plenary to invite President Muhammadu Buhari to brief it on the…
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