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PROTESTS at state levels greeted Tuesday’s announcement of President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial nominees by the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki. Saraki at plenary announced 21 names as contained in the ministerial list sent to him on September 30, saying the screening of the nominees would commence on Tuesday, October 13. But from the Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders came …

By Oladipo Airenakho Former Edo State Governor, Professor Osahienmen Osunbor has enjoined government at all levels in Nigeria to improve their budget for education. He made the appeal on Monday at the World Teachers Day celebration held at Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin City, Edo State. Professor Osunbor who was intermittently applauded at the venue by teachers in recognition of …

The Senate president, Bukola Saraki, read out 21 names on the list of nominees sent to the senate by the president last Wednesday. Chris Ngige – Anambra Kayode Fayemi- Ekiti Rotimi Amaechi – Rivers Babatunde Fashola -Lagos Abdulrahman Danbazau- Kano Aisha Alhassan – Taraba Ogbonaya Onu- Abia Kemi Adeosun -Ogun Abubakar Malami (SAN) -Kebbi Sen Hadi Sirika –Katsina Barr. Adebayo …

The Senate leadership will adopt the formal procedure for the screening of ministerial nominees behind closed doors on Tuesday (today). It may also involve anti-graft agencies such as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission in the screening of those nominated by President Muhammadu Buhari to become ministers under the present …

TEACHERS in Nigeria, yesterday joined their counterparts in other parts of the world to mark the World Teachers Day, and made several demands from government on welfare and other conditions of service aimed at improving the standard of the teaching profession in the country. Speaking at the occasion, President of the Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT, Michael Alogba-Olukoya, said it …

ABUJA—Strong indications have emerged that today’s plenary session, where the Senate would unveil the ministerial list sent by President Muhammadu Buhari, may be stormy as senators are saying the President must, in line with the constitution, submit himself before the Senate for screening if he appointed himself Minister of Petroleum. petbuhariThey are also set to reject an incomplete list, saying …

THERE were indications on Monday on how a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke and a former Managing Director of a parastatal under the NNPC got themselves into trouble with the police in the United Kingdom. It was learnt that the purchase of houses each in London by the former minister and the sacked NNPC top shot had …

President Muhammadu Buhari disclosed Monday in Abuja that the 2016 national budget being prepared by his administration would include fresh policies and measures to encourage the rapid diversification of the Nigerian economy away from its current over-dependence on the oil and gas sector. Speaking at an audience with the President of the Movement of the Enterprises of France (MEDEF), Pierre …

By Oladipo Airenakho A medical outreach of the Nigerian Army is currently providing free medical service and other relief materials to internally displaced Nigerians in a camp located in Edo State. Those in the camp are people affected by Boko Haram insurgency which for several years have wreaked havoc on the nation, especially the Northern part of Nigeria. They have …

A confirmed plot to exit the Inspector General of Police, Mr Solomon Arase, is on, Nigerian Tribune can reliably inform. Sources close to Arase confirmed their awareness of the plot. An Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) from the South is being packaged as his replacement. Multiple sources involved on both sides (pro and anti-Arase forces) also confirmed the thickening …