Today's Headlines: Tinubu assigns portfolios to ministers, Wike gets FCT, Kwankwaso Meets Atiku After Talks With Tinubu Collapse
Tinubu assigns portfolios to ministers, Wike gets FCT
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President Bola Tinubu has assigned portfolios to his ministers, over one week after they were screened by the Senate.
The portfolios were announced by the president’s office as contained in a statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES.
Ex-Rivers Governor Nyesom Wike was named Minister of the FCT while Wale Edun was named finance minister.
Some of the other key portfolios include Ali Pate, a professor, as Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, and Lateef Fagbemi as Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice. Ex-Jigawa Governor Mohamed Badaru was named Minister of Defence while Ex-Kebbi Governor Atiku Bagudu was named Minister of Budget and Economic Planning.
Kwankwaso Meets Atiku After Talks With Tinubu Collapse
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Two leading opposition figures in the country, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and a former Governor of Kano State, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, recently held a meeting in Abuja.
The meeting took place at the residence of the former Governor and leader of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) late Tuesday.
Though details of the meeting are yet to be known as those close to the two leaders have kept sealed lips, Daily Trust gathered that the meeting might not be unconnected with the political situation in the country and recent developments.
No federal university is allowed to charge tuition fees — FG
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The Federal Government has insisted that no federal university is allowed to charge tuition fees in the country.
The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Mr David Adejo said this at a public hearing by the House of Representatives ad hoc committee on student loans in Abuja on Tuesday.
Adejo said that the recent increase in charges by federal universities in the country was unfortunate.
“What they collect is charges to cover the cost of accommodation, ICT, and power, among others. It is the Governing Councils of the Universities that have the power to approve such charges for them.
“The only university that increased charges after the signing of the student loans act is the University of Lagos.
“They came to the Ministry with a proposal to increase their charges because all Governing Councils were dissolved and we gave them approval.
“Immediately that was done, there was a resolution from the House stopping the increase in fees and the President also gave a directive stopping any increase in fees and that is where it is, even though several others have brought their proposal,” he said.
Lagos Muslims protest, petition lawmakers over Sanwo-Olu’s commissioner’s list
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Muslims, under the umbrella of the Lagos Muslim Community, have staged a protest over what they described as official marginalization in the list of commissioner-designates forwarded to the state House of Assembly by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
The commissioner’s list released by Governor Sanwo-Olu allegedly has eight Muslims, and 31 Christians. Muslims in their hundreds converged on the state’s House of Assembly complex in the early hours of Wednesday.
The protest had in attendance heads of various Islamic organizations and scholars among other Muslims faithful, displaying placards, which reads the inscription, “MUSLIMS SAY NO OFFICIAL DISCRIMINATION.” Addressing a large crowd of Muslim protesters at the venue, President, of the Muslim Community of Lagos State, Prof. Tajudeen. G.O. Gbadamosi read a petition, which was submitted to the lawmakers.
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