Tag: GEORGE AKUME
Akume, Edun, Fagbemi appointed to enforce Supreme Court judgment on LG...
The Nigerian government has appointed a committee comprising 10 persons to enforce the Supreme Court judgment granting financial autonomy to local governments.
Secretary to the...
Tinubu will drop non-performing ministers – Hadiza Bala Usman
Hadiza Bala Usman, special adviser to President Bola Tinubu on policy and coordination has said her principal will drop ministers who do not deliver...
OFFICIAL: Tinubu appoints Gbajabiamila chief of staff
President Bola Tinubu has appointed the outgoing Speaker of the House of Representatives Femi Gbajabiamila as his chief of staff.
Tinubu also named a former deputy governor of Jigawa State, Ibrahim Hadejia, as deputy chief of staff while...
Ortom drags predecessor Akume to court
Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom says he has taken legal action against the minister of special duties and intergovernmental affairs George Akume.
Akume had attacked...
Governor Ortom loses younger sister
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has lost his younger sister, Doose.
She died of undisclosed ailment on June 2 at the age of 22 and...
Akume hosts Ned Nwoko, Regina Daniels, Bob-Manuel
Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental
Affairs, George Akume, on Friday played host to former federal lawmaker, Ned
Nwoko and his malaria eradication project team.
Mr...
Much ado about bow and go
By Ola Awoniyi
The screening of ministerial nominees by the Senate has come and gone but the dust it raised may take some time to...
Amaechi, Aregbesola, Akpabio, Keyamo, others named in Buhari’s ministerial list
Former minister of transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, and former minister of labour and employment, Chris Ngige, have been retained in President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial nominees’...
Akume should be in prison for laundering N2bn – Ortom
Benue State
Governor, Samuel Ortom, has said that he was a billionaire before he was
elected governor.
Mr Ortom said this in reply to his estranged godfather,...
NAN sacks reporter over fake news
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has sacked its
correspondent in Makurdi, Bridget Kyado, over a fake report published on
December 28, 2018.
Kyado had filed a...