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George Akume

Date of Birth: 27 December 1953


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After Tinubu opened Pandora's Box

Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation Joseph Utsev owes his position to Secretary General of the Federation George Akume a former governor and senator from Benue State...


Ending fuel subsidies, Tinubu takes on traders and the unions

Tinubu's aides led by new Chief of Staff and outgoing speaker in the House of Representatives Femi Gbajabiamila and Secretary to the Federation and former Minister of Special Duties George Akume quickly set up a forum with the key trade union leaders and some civil society groups to agree a programme of state-funded palliatives...


Governors get set

Both Jime and Ortom were protégés of former governor George Akume now a senator...


The strange case of the ex-Governors

Ex-governors who like Dariye made their way to the Senate are Zamfara’s Ahmed Sani Yerima (who pioneered the clamour for Sharia law in the north in 1999) and Benue’s George Akume...


The new man in Abuja

For five weeks after the vote he was based at Aguda House receiving delegations led by state governors such as Segun Oni (Ekiti State) Segun Agagu (Ondo) Bukola Saraki (Kwara) and George Akume (Benue) who have all been accused of gross electoral abuses...


A troubled transition

A group of outgoing state governors including Ahmed Makarfi Adamu Mu'azu and George Akume from Kaduna Bauchi and Benue States respectively is in the running for posts in the new government...


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