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Today's Headlines:Ex-Minister Shagari formerly dumps PDP, joins APC, Tinubu Announces New Min Designate For Niger Delta

Ex-Minister Shagari formerly dumps PDP, joins APC

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The only surviving member of the old People’s Democratic Party PDP in Sokoto state and former Minister of water resources, Barrister Mukhtar Shehu Shagari has formerly dumped the party for All progressives Congress APC.

Shagari who was a former Minister of water resources in the administration of former president Olusegun Obasanjo formerly received APC membership card from the hands of the party secretary Abubakar Yabo in company other state APC executives.

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Shagari the longest serving Minister of water resources in the cabinet of former president Obasanjo was a founding member of the People’s Democratic Party PDP and has been in the party for over 25 years not until August this year when he decided to adjust his seat to APC.

Those who care to speak on the former Minister’s recent detection to APC blamed the national body the party for not being fair and just to Shagari couple with his utmost respect and loyalty to the party leadership.

Tinubu Announces New Minister Designate For Niger Delta

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ABUJA – President Bola Tinubu has approved the redeployment of Engr. Abubakar Momoh from the Federal Ministry of Youth to the Federal Ministry of Niger Delta Development.

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A statement by Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity, on Sunday, said the Federal Ministry of Youth is to be re-assigned to a Minister-Designate soon.

The Ministers-Designate allocated to the Federal Ministries of Transportation, Interior, and Marine & Blue Economy have been reshuffled as follows: H.E. Adegboyega Oyetola is redeployed as the Honourable Minister of Marine & Blue Economy

Hon. Bunmi Tunji-Ojo is redeployed as the Honourable Minister of Interior

While Hon. Sa’idu Alkali is redeployed as the Honourable Minister of Transportation

Furthermore, both Ministers of State in the Oil & Gas sector are now domiciled in the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources with the following designations: Sen. Heineken Lokpobiri is the Hon. Minister of State (Oil), Petroleum Resources

NNPP’s Post Election Crisis: Kwankwaso, NWC Under Fire For Alleged Romance With Tinubu

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The crisis rocking the New Nigeria People’s Party(NNPP) took a new dimension as some aggrieved State chairmen of the party condemned the alleged subterrenean moves by the party’s former Presidential candidate, Dr Rabiu Kwankwaso to hijack the party machinery from it founder, Dr Bonniface Aniebonam.

Briefing journalists in Ado-Ekiti , Comrade Olayinka Dada, the Ekiti State Chairman of the party accused the members of NWC of making themselves free tools in the hands of Kwakwanso to sabotage the collective interest of the party.

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He hinted that the NNPP Leaders from 10 states have passed a vote of no confidence against the members of the Abba Kawu-led National Workimg Committee (NWC) for allegedly working in cahoots with Kwankwaso to carry out the sinister plan.

He expressed dismay over the desperation of Dr Kwankwaso in destroying the political party which once gave him and his foot-soldiers fortress in the last poll declaring that they have rejected the NWC leadership because they had failed in managing the party’s affairs well.

Analysts Back Bakare’s ‘Anti-People’ Verdict On Tinubu

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LAGOS – Analysts have commended Pas­tor Tunde Bakare for his outspo­kenness against the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu adminis­tration, saying that his views cannot be faulted as he spoke the truth about the current situation since the new government took off on May 29, 2023.

It would be recalled that the Lagos outspoken cleric, Pastor Tunde Bakare, an All Progres­sives Congress (APC) chieftain and presidential aspirant in the 2023 election, on Sunday, during his ‘State of the Nation Address’ in his church, The Citadel Glob­al Community Church (CGCC), formerly The Latter Rain As­sembly (End-Time Church), tackled President Tinubu over some of his policies, which he said are anti-people.

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During his address last Sun­day, Bakare, a lawyer and activ­ist, also declared that Tinubu is unable to properly manage ‘Change’, which has been the APC’s main mantra since the Buhari administration, lament­ing that Nigerians are already losing faith in the party.

Why Fuel Subsidy Removal, Other World Bank Recommendations Fail – MFC

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LAGOS – The Movement For Fundamental Change (MFC), a civil society think tank, has said that the fuel subsidy removal and other World Bank-recom­mended programmes to Nige­ria have consistently failed as predicted by the body.

In a statement issued on Sat­urday from its Lagos headquar­ters, titled, ‘Alhaji Bola Tinubu, World Bank And Subsidy Re­moval’, the MFC maintained that neo-liberal postulations of World Bank are inconsistent with Nigeria’s social-democrat­ic culture and developmental agenda.

MFC, in the statement signed by Oloye Adegboyega Adeni, its Chairman, and Al­hamdu Ayuba, a Senior Analyst of the group, recalled that in December 2016, Vice-President Osinbajo had said that “The downstream sector has been deregulated with the elimina­tion of petroleum subsidy. This policy has removed from the government, a burden of not less than N15.4bn monthly.”

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