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  • Ministerial screening: Enelamah’s responses to senate

    Ministerial screening: Enelamah’s responses to senate

    The Senate has on Wednesday commenced the screening of the five remaining ministerial nominees, to bring the total number of ministerial nominees to 36 according to constitutional requirements.

    The five nominees are – Okecukwu Enyinna Enelamah, Mohammed Musa Bello, Adamu Adamu, Aisha Abubakar and Nwoka Anthony.

    The Senate has so far screened 31 ministerial nominees since the exercise commenced few weeks ago.

    The first being Okechukwu Enelamah. While responding to questions from senators during the exercise, he said:

    • We need to improve our non-oil revenue base.
    • Government must improve its social contract with the people.
    • We need a shared vision for Nigeria.
    • Focus on industries that lead to growth.
    • We need to develop infrastructures.
    • No nation develop on its own, we weed investors to boost our economy.
    • Create enabling environment for each sectors of the economy.
    • Each region in Nigeria should be made a cluster and create infrastructures in these regions.
    • Government must work inclusively.
    • We must have a clear policy direction.

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  • Highlights of ministerial screening

    Highlights of ministerial screening

    The five remaining ministerial nominees will be screened by the Senate on Wednesday.

    The five nominees are – Okecukwu Enyinna Enelamah, Mohammed Musa Bello, Adamu Adamu, Aisha Abubakar and Nwoka Anthony.

    The Senate has so far screened 31 ministerial nominees since the exercise commenced few weeks ago.

     

    Okechukwu Enelamah

    • We need to improve our non-oil revenue base
    • Government must improve its social contract with the people
    • We need a shared vision for Nigeria
    • Focus on industries that lead to growth
    • We need to develop infrastructures
    • No nation develop on its own, we weed investors to boost our economy
    • Create enabling environment for each sectors of the economy
    • Each region in Nigeria should be made a cluster and create infrastructures in these regions
    • Government must work inclusively
    • We must have a clear policy direction

     

    Anthony Owuka

    • There is problem with UTME
    • No link between the school system and what the students want to learn
    • Government should declare state of emergency in education sector
    • Native language must be inculcated in schools

     

    Mohammed Musa Bello

    • Institutions should be considered as business
    • The problem of cattle rustling has to do with resource control
    • Since establishment of NAHCOM, hajj has improved significantly

     

    Adamu Adamu

    An Accountant-turned writer. Adamu was told to bow and take his leave shortly after introduction.

     

    Aisha Abubakar

    -She was also told to bow and take a leave after introduction

  • Sokoto Senators withdraw petitions against Abubakar

    Sokoto Senators withdraw petitions against Abubakar

    The coast for confirmation may have been cleared Wednesday for the Sokoto State ministerial nominee, Aisha Abubakar.

    Three senators from the state withdrew petition against her nomination as a minister.

    Following her nomination by President Muhammadu Bubari for screening and confirmation by the Senate, some groups from Sokoto State including Concerned Women of Sokoto State, petitioned the Senate against her nomination on the ground of alleged incompetence.

    The petitioners also claimed that the nominee is not known in the Sokoto State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC).

    The petition was subsequently referred to the Senate Committee on Ethics and Privileges for consideration.

    Abubakar had already appeared before the Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions Committee where the petition was dismissed because it was wrongly addressed.

    The petitioners were asked to go back and re-address their petition properly.

    They did but Wednesday following consultation senators representing Sokoto State wrote to the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, withdrawing the petition.

    They asked the Senate to screen and confirm the nominee.

    Senator Kabiru Gaya (Kano North) prayed the Senate to discontinue the consideration of the petition since those that presented it has withdrawn the document.

    Gaya said that it is unnecessary for the Committee to submit report on the petition since it had been withdrawn.

    Senate President, Saraki, asked the Chairman of the Committee, Senator Samuel Anyanwu to discontinue with the petition.

  • Buhari, Tambuwal, Wamakko meet over ministerial nominee

    Buhari, Tambuwal, Wamakko meet over ministerial nominee

    To resolve the controversy surrounding the nomination of Aisha Abubakar as minister from Sokoto State, President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met the Sokoto state Governor, Aminu Waziri and his predecessor, Senator Aliyu Magatakrda Wamakko.

    The Nation gathered that the outcome of the one hour meeting was fruitful.

    “At the moment, all issues are being resolved‎,” a source told our correspondent.

     

  • Sokoto APC rejects ministerial nominee

    THE nomination of Miss Aisha Abubakar for ministerial appointment from Sokoto state may fail or face some difficulties scaling the screening on Tuesday in the Senate following her rejection by the state chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress ( APC).

    The party in the state also vowed to officially write President Muhammadu Buhari rejecting her nomination and be replaced by a more competent representation not minding the gender.

    Senator Abdullahi Ibrahim Gobir representing Sokoto East in the Senate had last Thursday submitted a petition against Abubakar’s nomination‎.

    Gobir in the petition rejected Miss Abubakar’s nomination mainly on grounds of incompetence, along with other reasons contained in the petition presented to Senate President, Bukola Saraki.

    The decision to reject Abubakar was taken during a stakeholders meeting of the party presided by over Governor Aminu Tambuwal.

    Briefing reporters shortly after the meeting, Chairman of the party, Alhaji Usman
    Danmadamin-Isa said the meeting was summoned mainly to discuss the nomination of Aisha Abubakar.

    According to Danmadamin -Isa” The meeting had discussed the nomination of one lady called A’isha as the nominee from Sokoto state and we have rejected her nomination which we out rightly rejected her nomination.”

    ” It became necessary to take a unanimous position because she is not a card-carrying member of the party in the state and nobody knows her, while she knows nobody in the state,” he explained.

    The chairman maintained that ” we have also resolved to respectfully write to President Muhammadu Buhari to replace her with another more competent person,
    not minding his or her gender.”‎

  • Three suspected female terrorists arrested

    Three suspected female terrorists arrested

    The Defence Headquarters on Friday confirmed that troops have arrested three suspected female terrorists allegedly recruiting for the female wing of Boko Haram.

    The three suspects are – Hafsat Usman Bako, Zainab Idris and Aisha Abubakar.

    The DHQ which made the claim in a statement signed by Col. Onyema Nwachukwu on behalf of the Director of Defence Information said the suspects were intercepted on their way to the dreaded Sambisa Forest.

    The statement said: “In the aftermath of the failed suicide bombing attempt on a military facility by a female terrorist who blew herself up in Gombe recently, troops have arrested three suspected female terrorists who have been secretly recruiting ladies into the female wing of the terrorists group.

    “The suspects –  Hafsat Usman Bako, Zainab Idris and Aisha Abubakar were intercepted while traveling to Madagali from where they were to transit to the forest to reunite with their cohorts.

    “Investigations revealed that the suspects, led by Hafsat Bako, have the mission to recruit members into the female wing as well as conduct espionage for the group.

    “Hafsat’s link with the terrorists group had earlier been a subject of investigation in 2012, when security agents on a man-hunt for one Usman Bako, her husband who was identified as a terrorist, stormed their residence in Jimeta.

    “This resulted in the discovery of an AK 47 rifle and two loaded magazines. Though Usman Bako later died in an encounter with troops in Sokoto where he had relocated to continue his terrorist activities, Hafsat continued with the terror group specializing in surreptitious recruitment of members into their fold.”

    The statement said the suspects specialized in hiring widows and young girls under the guise of marrying them off to good homes.

    The statement added: “The arrested suspects were luring ladies especially widows and young girls by enticing them with male suitors who are mainly members of their terror group for marriage.

    “Before their arrest, they were on a mission to take additional briefing from the leadership of the terror group.

    “The three suspects have been operating together as members of the intelligence team of the group. Their arrest has yielded information still being verified by security agencies.”