Today's Headlines: Tinubu ministers won’t perform more than 15% – Daniel Bwala, Alleged N6.9bn fraud: Court defers Emefiele’s trial
Tinubu’s ministers won’t perform more than 15% – Daniel Bwala
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Daniel Bwala, an aide to Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP said he does not expect the ministers sworn in by President Bola Tinubu to perform at more than 15 percent.
Speaking during Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily on Wednesday, Bwala stated that he doesn’t expect much based on the people the president has appointed.
He said he feels that when it comes to the number of ministers, Tinubu was more particular about politics than governance. The number of governors in the cabinet and the portfolios assigned to some individuals were purely political.
Recall that President Tinubu on Monday swore in 45 ministers into his cabinet, which had former Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike as the Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Festus Keyamo as Minister of Ation.
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Alleged N6.9bn fraud: Court defers Emefiele’s trial
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The scheduled fresh arraignment of the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele, before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, sitting at Maitama, was again stalled on Tuesday.
Neither Emefiele nor his co-defendant in the 20-count corruption charge the Federal Government entered before the court, Mrs. Saadat Yaro, were present for the proceeding.
Even though trial Justice Hamza Muazu, who is sitting as the vacation judge, was on seat, however, Emefiele’s case was not listed on the court’s cause-list.
An official of the court who spoke to Vanguard but pleaded not to be named, said the case could not proceed as planned, due to fresh developments in the matter.
Ministerial slot tears APC youths apart, as 30 leaders back Seyi Tinubu
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Youth under the auspices of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC have been divided over the race for the emergence of the Minister of Youth.
While a faction of the APC youth leaders declared their support for Seyi Tinubu, son of President Bola Tinubu, for the position of Minister of Youth, another bloc of the ruling party’s youth snubbed its National Youth Leader, Dayo Isreal.
According to the youth leaders, Seyi is deserves to be Nigeria’s Minister of Youth for painstakingly strengthening the youth wing of the party.
The youth leaders said that Seyi, during the elections, travelled at odd hours to numerous states across federation canvasing support for the success of the Tinubu-led administration.
NDLEA launches manhunt for alleged Lekki drug dealer who evaded arrest
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has launched a manhunt for a suspected Lekki-based notorious drug dealer, Sowunmi Ayodeji Kayode.
The agency said that Kayode was now on the run after driving his luxury car to knock down an NDLEA officer in his bid to escape arrest when operatives were on a search of his house last weekend.
The director, media and advocacy, NDLEA headquarters Abuja, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement he issued on Wednesday, August 23.
Babafemi said that the anti-narcotics officers of the Agency had on Friday, August 18, stormed the residence of the wanted drug dealer located at 2/3 Adetola Ayeni close, Lekki, Lagos for a search and possible arrest, following credible intelligence that he was dealing in illicit drugs in his house.
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