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President Bola Tinubu has allocated portfolios to ministers a few days after they were screened and confirmed by the senate. Initially, the president had submitted a list of 47 ministerial nominees to the senate without assigning specific ministries, sparking discussions on their eventual roles...

President Muhammadu Buhari came under heavy criticism yesterday for his failure to act in the alleged indictment of his Minister of Defence, Bashir Magashi, for a $550,000 security fund diversion. Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu deflected response on the allegation to the office of the...

President Muhammadu Buhari has constituted his cabinet of 44 portfolios – but there is a certain “familiarity” about the composition. Hinging on zonal distribution, some regions have more junior ministerial positions than others, just as another region takes a large slice of the senior...

President Muhammadu Buhari has assigned portfolios to the 43 newly inaugurated ministers. The president retained himself as petroleum minister while former Governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva is to serve as minister of state. Also appointed is Godswill Akpabio as Niger Delta Minister...

The Senate has confirmed all 43 ministerial nominees sent in by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday last week. The confirmation followed the conclusion of the hearing conducted by the upper chamber on Tuesday, after a week-long screening process. Meanwhile, the senate screened the remaining...

A total of seven women made the 2019 ministerial nominees list of President Muhammadu Buhari. The figure represents 16.3% of the total of 43 nominees. The women include: Zainab Ahmed (Kaduna), the current Finance Minister who was appointed … Zainab Ahmed (Kaduna) Paulen Talen (Plateau) Sharon...

Former Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali and former Agric Minister, Audu Ogbe were among other ministers that have been dumped by President Buhari forwarded his Ministerial nominees to the Senate with Senator Godswill Akpabio, Gbemisola Saraki, Lai Mohammed George Akume and others making the...

See full list of Buhari’s ministerial nominees ADVERTISEMENT President Mohammadu Buhari on Tuesday sent a list of 43 ministerial nominees to the Senate. At exactly 11:12am, President of the Senate, Dr Ahmad Lawan read the list at the plenary of the Senate, revealing that screening … 1.Dr...

President Muhammadu Buhari has sent the nominees of appointment for Ministers to the Nigerian Senate for screening. The names were read to the floor by Ahmad Lawan, President of the Senate after a closed door session. The list contained names of some old ministers and new people. Some … Read...

There were strong indications last night that between 12 and 15 ex-ministers will join President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet. It was learnt that the ex-ministers’ names are on the list which was reportedly submitted to Senate President Ahmed Lawan on Wednesday. But there was still a pall of...

President Muhammadu Buhari says he is pleased that his cabinet has not suffered any major scandal since it was constituted in November 2015. Buhari, who spoke in an interview with the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), described it as a major achievement. When asked about the kind of people he...

Barring last minutes changes, President Mohammadu Buhari is set to take a short leave abroad expressly to vet both ministerial performance audit report and a list of ministerial candidates with their curriculum vitae, (CV) Sunday INDEPENDENT reliably Read more via Naijaloaded | Nigeria’s...

Chris Ngige, who said prior to the 2015 presidential elections, he predicted that President Buhari will win the poll and it came to pass, is predicting again that Buhari will win the 2019 presidential election convincingly. Read more via Tori News – http://bit.ly/2TkUNCY -- Get More Nigeria...

It’s Not FG’s Problem If Nigerians Don’t Have Light – Fashola The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said that it is not the Federal Government’s problem if Nigerians don’t have electricity. The minister, who disclosed this while speaking at the Nextier Power Dialogue...

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has said the ongoing expansion in the power sector was done to support expected growth in the country’s mining sector and other heavy industrial concerns. Fashola said these expansion efforts were in support of the … Read more...

Abuja The minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has dispelled the fear of gender based discrimination in Nigerian workplaces as expressed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Article IV Consultation Team. The minister speaking recently when he received the IMF team led by IMF …...