…Redeploys Gbemi Saraki to Mines and Steel BY GODWIN OBI President Muhammadu Buhari has reshuffled his cabinet by appointing new portfolios to the seven ministers that were recently appointed. He administered the oath of office on them before the commencement of the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at theContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI Less than 24 hours after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, the outgoing Secretary-General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, Muhammad Sanusi Barkindo, is dead. He reportedly died at about 11pm on Tuesday at the age of 63. Though theContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBI There was pandemonium among residents of the Kuje prison area in Abuja on Tuesday evening after explosions and gunshots were heard from the direction of the correctional centre. The details of what transpired were unclear as of Wednesday morning. The police are yet to issue a formalContinue Reading
BY GODWIN OBIThe Minister of State for Transportation, Senator Gbemisola Saraki has expressed worries over the domination of the nation’s maritime sector by foreign shipowners, saying this was having negative economic impact on the country and the sub-region.Saraki remarked that most of the maritime transportation was conducted by foreign shipowners,Continue Reading