Today's Headlines: Ministerial List: El-Rufai Allegedly Withdraws Nomination; Osun PDP Nominates Adagunodo’s Replacement
El-Rufai Allegedly Withdraws Nomination
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Former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has withdrawn his nomination to serve as a minister in the government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Premium Times reports.
Also, the ex-governor recommended a replacement to serve as a minister.
Quoting a source from the presidency, the online newspaper said El-Rufai had informed President Tinubu that he would no longer consider his nomination as a minister in the government.
El-Rufai reportedly assured Tinubu that he would continue contributing his quota to national development as a private citizen.
The report said El-Rufai has recommended Jafaru Ibrahim Sani, who served as commissioner in three ministries – Local Government Education and Environment in Kaduna State as replacement.
DAILY POST recalls that the confirmation of El-Rufai and two other ministerial nominees by the Senate was delayed on the ground of insecurity.
Osun PDP Nominates Adagunodo’s Replacement
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun State has nominated a former chairman of Irepodun Local Government Area of the state, Kamarudeen Ajisafe, as a replacement for Soji Adagunodo, the erstwhile South West chairman of the party, who died in May.
A communique signed by the state PDP chairman, Sunday Bisi and made available yesterday, said Ajisafe’s choice was arrived at during a stakeholders’ meeting of the party, held in Osogbo.
The approval of Ajisafe’s nomination was however subject to the ratification of the national leadership of the party.
The party stakeholders also deliberated on the composition of the local government caretaker committee and resolved that one person each should be nominated from the 332 wards in the state for consideration.
The communique further read, “As directed by the national leadership of the party and in consultation with leaders of the party in the zone, the meeting nominated Barrister Ajisafe Kamarudeen to fill the vacant zonal South West chairmanship position of the party, subject to final ratification by the national office of the party.
“The meeting also deliberated on the composition of the local government caretaker committee members in the state. Stakeholders of the party in all the 332 wards were therefore directed to present a nominee each for consideration for the caretaker committee to be constituted soonest.
“The stakeholders were given a week to submit the names of the nominees for onward presentation to and consideration of the leader of the party, who will then forward the nominees to the state Assembly.”
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Burkina Faso’s Junta Slams Indefinite Ban On Radio Station Over Niger
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Burkina Faso’s junta-led government has suspended one of the country’s most popular radio stations after it broadcast an interview deemed “insulting” to Niger’s new military leaders.
Radio Omega was immediately suspended on Thursday “until further notice,” Communications Minister Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo said in a statement.
He said the measure was “in the higher interests of the nation.”
The station, part of the Omega media group owned by journalist and former foreign minister Alpha Barry, ceased broadcasting after the statement was issued late Thursday.
The channel had run an interview with Ousmane Abdoul Moumouni, the spokesman of a newly-established Nigerien group campaigning to return President Mohamed Bazoum to power.
The country’s elected leader was overthrown on July 26 by members of the Presidential Guard.
Moumouni made “insulting comments about the new Nigerien authorities,” said Ouedraogo, who is also a government spokesman.
His organisation “is clearly campaigning for violence and war against the sovereign people of Niger” and seeks to restore Bazoum “by every means,” he charged.
Burkina Faso underwent two military coups last year, each triggered in part — as in Mali and Niger — by discontent at failures to stem a raging jihadist insurgency.
It swiftly declared solidarity with Niger’s new leaders and joined Mali in warning that any military intervention to restore Bazoum would be considered a “declaration of war” against them.
The Burkinabe authorities in recent months have suspended the French TV outlets LCI and France24 as well as Radio France Internationale and expelled the correspondents of the French newspapers Liberation and Le Monde.
ASUU Decries Dissolving Universities Governing Councils
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on Thursday, expressed dismay to dissolve the governing councils in the country’s universities by the federal government.
The union described dissolving the governing councils in the universities as an obnoxious one without completing their tenures of office, calling on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to rescind from doing so.
The National Vice Chairman of ASUU, Comrade Christopher Piwuna, the National Vice Chairman of ASUU, of the University of Jos, made the observation in a paper he presented at an event organised in honour of retiring lecturers at the Joseph Sarwuaan Tarka University Makurdi (JOSTUM), formerly called the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi (FUAM), in Benue State.
Piwuna opined that it is wrong to dissolve governing councils and transfer the powers of their councils to the Federal Ministry of Education or the National Universities Commission (NUC) without due recourse to the university laws.
He reiterated, “It is also a disservice to the universities to allow a vacuum because mischievous vice chancellors and ministry officials could connive to ruin our universities if such brazen disregard for the laws establishing the universities is not checked.”
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