By admin on April 6, 2010
Nigeria’s acting president swore in a new Cabinet in the oil-rich nation on Tuesday, placing a former oil company employee in charge of the country’s petroleum ministry and an investment banker at the helm of its finances.
Posted in Nigerian politics | Tagged acting president, Dora Akunyili, goodluck jonathan, national assembly, umaru yar adua
By admin on April 5, 2010
KANO – The first civilian Governor of Kano state, Alhaji Abubakar Muhammadu Rimi died of cardiac arrest last night after running into an armed robbery operation along Darki- Gadar Jana 50 kim north of Kano city, declared the police.
Posted in Nigerian politics | Tagged Abubakar Rimi, armed robbery
By admin on April 5, 2010
Alhaji Abubakar Rimi, former governor of Kano State and former presidential aspirant is dead. He died last night from shock he received after an armed robbery incident.
The robbers who were said to had recognised him, only seized his phones so that he would not report to the police.
Alhaji Abubakar Rimi
Posted in Nigerian politics | Tagged Abubakar Rimi, armed robbery, vanguard news
By admin on April 3, 2010
Pressure by Abuja to get Nigeria off America’s terrorist watch list seems to have paid off as Washington has promised to “revisit the issue.”
A senior White House official said President Barack Obama could de-list Nigeria as a “goodwill gesture’ to Acting President Goodluck Jonathan when he visits later this month.
Aides disclosed that Obama had discussions with Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, as well as with Justice Department and Homeland Security officials before taking the decision.
Posted in Nigerian politics | Tagged barack obama, goodluck jonathan, terrorist watch list
By admin on April 1, 2010
ABUJA—APPARENTLY remorseful over his misguided comments on Nigeria, Libyan dictator, Colonel Mamman Ghadaffi yesterday began an apologetic moves aimed at healing wounds inflicted on Nigeria, following the diplomatic row that resulted from his call for the splitting of Nigeria along religious lines.
Posted in Nigerian politics | Tagged acting president, african leaders, ghadaffi, goodluck jonathan
By admin on April 1, 2010
Two ministerial nominees — Prof. Dora Akunyili and Ms Josephine Tapgun — narrowly escaped being rejected by the Senate as members of the new Federal Executive Council.
Akunyili, whose name was the third read by the President of the Senate, Mr. David Mark, almost lost out when the voice vote appeared to show that the senators who supported or opposed her nomination were equal in number.
Posted in Nigerian politics | Tagged Dora Akunyili, federal executive council
By admin on March 25, 2010
Anambra State Governor Peter Obi on Tuesday sacked all his commissioners but renominated them on Wednesday for screening by the House of Assembly.
The Secretray to the State Government, Mr. Paul Odenigbo, forwarded the list of the commissioner nominees to the Speaker of the Assembly, Mr. Anayo Nebe, a few hours after news that Ikemba Nnewi, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, had lost another of his wives, Njideka, was made public.
Posted in Nigerian politics | Tagged anambra state governor
By admin on March 25, 2010
The Senate will on Thursday (today) take its final votes on the amendments to the 1999 Constitution.
The decision would have been taken on Wednesday but for the discovery that proposed amendments to Section 109 were not included in the documents which were circulated among senators.
A record 97 out of the 109 senators began the amendment of 36 clauses of the 1999 Constitution.
Posted in Nigerian politics | Tagged 1999 constitution, electoral reforms, independent national electoral commission
By admin on March 24, 2010
A LIST of 25 ministerial nominees was, yesterday, delivered to the President of the Senate, Senator David Mark.
The list which includes seven from the just dissolved cabinet was delivered by Special Assistant to the President, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh, according to normally reliable sources in the National Assembly. It includes 18 new ministerial nominees.
Posted in Nigerian politics | Tagged acting president, goodluck jonathan, vanguard news
By admin on March 22, 2010
THE Presidency is considering six names as likely replacement for Professor Maurice Iwu as Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Vanguard can authoritatively reveal.
Posted in Nigerian politics | Tagged Dora Akunyili, independent national electoral commission, Maurice Iwu
