Month: July 2023

Full List of House of Reps’ 134 Standing Committees

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The House of Representatives on Thursday July, 2023 unveiled the list of its much awaited standing committees; bellow is the full list of the Chairmen and Vice Chairmen of the committees.   FACTSHEET reported that Speaker, Hon. Tajudeen Abbas created additional committees for more effective oversight responsibility for the parliament.   The House now has a total of 133 standing Committees in addition to a new set of committees created to interface with parliaments all over the world for a more robust engagements between the Nigeria parliaments and other parliaments…

CAC to deregister 100,000 coys over failure to file annual returns

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The Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC, says it will strike off one hundred thousand companies that have failed to file annual returns in the last ten years. The Registrar-General of the CAC, Garba Abubakar, in a statement, said this while speaking at a Training Workshop on the Use of the Beneficial Ownership Register, BOR, in Lagos. Mr Abubakar, however, said that the Commission would soon send notices of striking off to the affected companies before embarking on the action as enshrined in section 692 of the CAMA,2020. He explained that the…

The Wagnerization of Asari Dokubo by Tinubu? by Frank Tietie

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There is a trending video of Asari Dokubo on social media at this time of writing that is hard to ignore by any well-meaning Nigerian.   Asari is seen in the video from the portico of a storey building, addressing an organized, uniformed group of men who are standing in the rain. Claiming that he had just returned from Hajj, in the apparent hope of patronizing the Muslims among us, he began taunting his imagined opponents of President Tinubu and thereafter burst into a defiant, twisted post-Emilokan refrain in praise…

Meet Tinubu’s Ministerial nominees

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The much talked about ministerial list of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was unveiled on Thursday by the Nigerian Senate, and it has rather set the template for another round of criticisms, bashings especially as it has recycled many former ministers and former Governors and above all many former members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio unveiled the list comprising 28 ministerial nominees, and to the surprise of political observers as the political trajectory of Many of the nominees indicated they held prominent positions in…

Tinubu nominates Blueprint Publisher, Mohammed Idris Malagi, as Minister

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Hours after PRNIGERIA released a list of top northern PR icons including the publisher of Blueprint Newspapers, Mohammed Idris Malagi, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has named him in the first batch of ministerial nominees released on Thursday.   The names were submitted to the Senate by the President’s Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila.   Malagi has achieved extraordinary success as a publisher, skilled PR expert and brand builder.   He was born in Malagi, a community in Gbako Local Government Area of Niger State on May 2, 1966. He is…

DSS arrests former Buhari’s Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika

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      DSS arrests former Buhari’s Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika     Former Minister of Aviation under Muhammadu Buhari’s government Hadi Sirika who used Ethiopia Airlines to scam Nigeria of N139.3bn has reportedly been arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS).   According to reports, Sirika arrived at the DSS headquarters in Abuja for questioning in a Range Rover SUV on Thursday, July 27, 2023.   He was reportedly grilled for several hours by DSS officials.   The questioning comes after the acting managing director of Nigeria Air,…

House Reps releases List of new Committee Chairmen

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Mohammed Bello El-Rufai, son of former Kaduna State Governor, and the daughter of former Delta State Governor, James Ibori, Erhiatake Ibori-Suenu, were named standing committees chairmen on Thursday.   Speaker Abbas Tajuddeen announced the 134 standing committees at the plenary.   While Ibori’s daughter was named Chairman, House Committee on Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), El-Rufai’s son was announced chairman, House on banking regulations.   Former Deputy Speaker, Ahmed Idris Wase, former House Leader, Alhassan Ado Doguwa, Yusuf Adamu Gagdi, Mukhtar Betara also emerged as chairmen of committees.   Ikenga…

A Special Message To All The Husbands And Wives! By Imam Murtadha Gusau

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In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful Verily, all praise is for Allah. We praise Him, we seek His assistance and we ask for His forgiveness. And we seek refuge in Him from the evils of ourselves. Whoever Allah guides, none can misguide. Whoever He misguides, none can guide. And I bear witness that there is no deity other than Allah and I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and messenger. Dear brothers and sisters, know that Islam depicts marriage to be the foundation of any society…

PROSPECTIVE CORPS MEMBERS, CORPS MEMBERS, CORPS PRODUCING INSTITUTIONS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC

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The management of the National Youth Service Corps wishes to reiterate that Deployment and Relocation of Prospective Corps Members, as well as Corps Members are carried out free of charge, and in accordance with the Deployment and Relocation policies of the Scheme. Accordingly, Relocation of Corps Members is effected on individual merit, in line with the laid down policy. In addition, mobilisation of Prospective Corps Members for national service is free of charge, as Corps Producing Institutions do not pay for that. Any infraction on the above policies should be…

Tinubu submits 28 Names as Ministers, El-Rufai, Wike, Adelabu included

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President Bola Tinubu has nominated 28 persons as ministers. The list includes ex-Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai and ex-Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike. The list was contained in a letter read by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, at the plenary on Thursday. The ministerial list was submitted to the Senate by the president’s Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, at about 1:19 p.m. The submission of ministerial nominees is in line with the constitutional provision stipulating that the president has from the date he is sworn in, a 60-day window to appoint ministers.…