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The Many Controversies Under Sacked Power Minister, Saleh Mamman Saleh Mamman, the erstwhile Minister of Power, courted many controversies shortly after he assumed office in August 2019. First of such was the sacking of the former Managing Director of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Mrs Damilola Ogunbiyi, over internal issues in December 2019. The federal government had reversed the sack to resignation. More internal crisis continued among the power sector agencies culminating in the removal of the Managing Director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Mr Usman Gur Mohammed in May 2020, a move that was frowned at by…

Saleh Mamman collapsed in Abuja and landed at the hospital yesterday after being told by President Muhammadu Buhari that he had been relieved of his job. Mr Mamman served as Power Minister since 2019 until he was fired on Wednesday as Mr Buhari conducted a minor redeployment of his cabinet members. “He collapsed yesterday and was immediately hospitalised,” a family source told The Gazette under anonymity. “He wasn’t expecting to be fired so soon.” The nature of Mr Mamman’s ailment was not immediately clarified to The Gazette, and his spokesman did not return a request seeking comments. The source said…

Alhaji Mohammed Sabo Nanono, who was relived of his duty as Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, on Wednesday, has been under scrutiny over a number of issues, which drew adversaries to him. Since taking charge of agric ministry on August 21, 2019, Nanono has been involved in one controversy or the other. Perhaps, the most wave Nanono made as a minister since his appointment two years ago was his gaffe that a N30 meal could be enough for an adult Nigerian, in response to criticism on the economic hardship during a radio interview. Leadership change at AFAN First, his…

President Muhammadu Buhari has accused the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, of stockpiling weapons across Nigeria. Buhari, who spoke through his mouthpiece, Garba Shehu, said IPOB members killed security agents and set government facilities in the Southeast ablaze. He stated this in response to claims by the Amnesty International on human rights violation in the Southeast. Shehu, in a statement issued on Wednesday, lamented that Amnesty International was defending IPOB which is a terrorist group. He accused Amnesty International of backing a terrorist organisation against victims of IPOB. The statement titled: “Why Amnesty entreaties should be ignored”, reads partly: “Amnesty…

Anambra state has finally joined the league of Oil Producing States in Nigeria, as it will soon start to benefit from the thirteen percent Derivation fund. This is sequel to the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation And Fiscal Commission's approval of Governor Willie Obiano's request for due share of revenue accruing to the nation from oil and gas production activities in Anambra state. According to the approval letter through its secretary, Mr M.B. Shehu, and addressed to Governor Obiano, the Commission, approved the attribution of eleven oil wells wholly to Anambra state. It also approved attribution of Anambra River One, Two, and…

President Buhari to sack more ministers President Muhammadu Buhari has given a hint that more ministers may be relieved of their appointments. The president on Wednesday sacked the minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Sabo Nanono and minister of Power, Saleh Mamman. While announcing the sack of the ministers, Mr Buhari said that “that this process shall be continuous”. Rad full text of the statement is reproduced below: On Wednesday 21st August, 2019 the current Federal Executive Council was sworn-in after a rigorous retreat to bring returning and new members up to speed on the accomplishments, challenges and lessons drawn…

President Muhammadu Buhari has relieved two ministers of their appointments. They are the Ministers of Agriculture, Mohammed Sabo Nanono and his Power counterpart, Engineer Saleh Mamman. Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity), Femi Adesina, announced this on Wednesday. He said the Minister of Environment, Mohammed Abubakar has been redeployed to the Ministry of Agriculture while the Minister of State for Works, Engineer Abubakar Aliyu is to take over as Minister of Power. He said the exercise will continue to fill vacancies as prescribed in the constitution.

The ongoing 6-lane Port Harcourt Road project embarked upon by the Governor Okezie Ikpeazu-led Abia State government will be completed before May 2023 with at least one lane asphalted for use before the end of this year. The State's Commissioner for Information, Chief John Okiyi Kalu who made this known while chatting with newsmen in Aba, the State's commercial nerve centre, recalled that work stopped temporarily on the road due to the Ndiegoro flood mediation project which intersected Porr Harcourt Road from the Uratta axis which is being handled NEWMAP. Chief Okiyi stated that the state government is devising an…

Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu,SAN, has signed into Law the Anti-Grazing Bill passed by the State House of Assembly. A statement by the Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Donald Ojogo said the Governor Akeredolu signed the bill into Law in his office on Tuesday, August 31, 2021. "The move is in line with the resolution of the Southern Governors' Forum at its last meeting in Lagos where September 1st was set as the deadline for Governors in Southern Nigeria to sign the Anti-Open Grazing Bill into law. "This is worthwhile and a very laudable development aimed at stemming needless…

Global President of One Love Foundation, Chief Patrick Osagie Eholor has lambasted Governor Godwin Obaseki over the sorry state of major streets in Benin City. Eholor stated this in an interview with journalists while reacting to photographs and video of residents either swimming or stuck in water or struggling to wade through water as the rains turns Benin City into a lagoon. According to him, the sorry state of Benin City is largely due to the leadership failure of Governor Godwin Obaseki. He said; "Benin City under Obaseki is submerged with flood anytime it rains and becomes submerged with filth…