Minister of Works Dave Umahi has confirmed that Hitech has been paid 1...
'The manufacturers have their challenges but from our findings the disparity between ex-factory price and the market price is [too] wide ' said Works Minister Dave Umahi...
Other ex-governors given high-spending ministries include: Minister of Works Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State whose 2020 defection to the APC expanded its footing in the opposition-held south-east; Minister of Police Ibrahim Gaidam who ran Yobe State for ten years before moving to the senate; Minister of Defence Mohammed Badaru Abubakar of Jigawa State; and Minister of State for Defence Bello Matawalle a former teacher whose appointment is puzzling given banditry spiked while he was governor of Zamfara State...
PRESIDENT BOLA TINUBU'S 46-PERSON MINISTERIAL TEAM Post – name (state age profession) SKILL-BRINGERS (7) Communications – Olatunbosun Tijani (Ogun 46 tech entrepreneur) Education – Tahir Mamman (Adamawa 69 academic administrator) Finance – Wale Edun (Ogun 61 banker) Foreign Affairs – Yusuf Maitama Tuggar (Bauchi 56 politician/diplomat/oil executive) Health – Muhammed Ali Pate (Bauchi 54 medicine/public health) Health (deputy) – Tunji Alausa (Lagos 56 medicine) Housing – Ahmed Musa Dangiwa (Katsina 60 banker/construction executive) THE EX-GOVERNORS (9) Budget – Atiku Bagudu (Kebbi 61 ex-governor) Defence – Mohammed Badaru Abubakar (Jigawa 60 ex-governor) Defence (deputy) – Bello Matawalle (Zamfara 61 ex-governor) Federal Capital Territory – Nyesom Wike (Rivers 55 ex-governor) Labour and Employment – Simon Lalong (Plateau 60 ex-governor) Marine and Blue Economy – Adegboyega Oyetola (Osun 68 ex-governor) Petroleum Resources – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Police Affairs – Ibrahim Gaidam (Yobe 66 ex-governor) Works – David Umahi (Ebonyi 60 ex-governor) ALLIES AND CRONIES (19) Agriculture and Food Security – Abubakar Kyari (Borno 60 career politician) Agriculture and Food Security (deputy) – Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi (Niger 56 politician) Art Culture and the Creative Economy – Hannatu Musawa (Katsina 43 lawyer) Aviation – Festus Keyamo (Delta 53 lawyer) Housing (deputy) – Abdullahi Tijjani Gwarzo (Kano 62 career politician) Information – Mohammed Idris 'Malagi' (Niger 57 newspaper editor) Innovation Science and Technology – Uche Nnaji (Enugu 60 business/politician) Attorney General and Justice – Lateef Fagbemi (Kwara 64 lawyer) Niger Delta – Abubakar Momoh (Edo 62 career politician) Petroleum/Oil (deputy) – Heineken Lokpobiri (Bayelsa 56 career politician) Power – Adebayo Adelabu (Oyo 52 banker) Solid Minerals – Dele Alake (Ekiti 66 journalist) Special Duties – Zephaniah Jisalo (FCT 53 career politician) Sports – John Owan Enoh (Cross River 57 career politician) Steel Development – Shuaibu Abubakar Audu (Kogi 42 banker) Steel Development (deputy) – Uba Maigari Ahmadu (Taraba 57 career politician) Transportation – Sa'idu Ahmed Alkali (Gombe 54 career politician) Water Resources (deputy) – Bello Muhammad Goronyo (Sokoto 58 career politician) Women's Affairs – Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye (Anambra 50 business) THE SPONSORED (11) Education (deputy) – Yusuf Tanko Sununu (Kebbi 56 medicine) Environment (deputy) – Ishak Salako (Ogun 64 medicine) Federal Capital Territory (deputy) – Mairiya Mahmud (Kano 47 medicine) Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation – Betta Edu (Cross River 36 politician) Industry Trade and Investment – Doris Uzoka-Anite (Imo 42 finance) Interior – Olubunmi Tunji Ojo (Ondo 41 business/politician) Labour and Employment (deputy) – Nkiru Onyejeocha (Abia 54 career politician) Petroleum/Gas (deputy) – Ekperikpe Ekpo (Akwa Ibom ~50 career politician) Police Affairs (deputy) – Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim (Nasarawa 43 business/civil service) Tourism – Lola Ade-John (Lagos 60 consultant) Water Resources – Joseph Utsev (Benue 43 administrator) * President Tinubu will name at least one more minister because he has yet to nominate a minister from Kaduna State (Nigeria's constitution requires that the President nominate at least one minister from each state)...
But the Labour Party will not find it easy in Ebonyi where the outgoing governor Dave Umahi is determined to hand over to his party's candidate Francis Nwifuru the speaker of the state assembly...
Only governors Abubakar Sani Bello (Niger) and Dave Umahi (Ebonyi) won...
Under Buni's brief reign since his abrasive predecessor Adams Oshiomhole was forced out three PDP governors have defected: Dave Umahi (Ebonyi state) Ben Ayade (Cross River) and Bello Matawalle (Zamfara)...
Governor of Ebonyi Dave Umahi defected from the PDP to the APC last December to become the party's second governor in the south-east...
But governor Dave Umahi of the southern state of Ebonyi who crossed over to the APC last November has opposed the southern states' attempt to get more from the tax purse...
Likewise five incumbent PDP governors Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia) Ifeanyi Okowa (Delta) Dave Umahi (Ebonyi) Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu) and Darius Ishaku (Taraba) all seem poised to win...
Army commanders accused IPOB of creating a Biafra Secret Service a National Guard setting up road blocks and attacking a military patrol South-eastern state governors – such as Dave Umahi Okezie Ikpeazu and Willie Obiano – have formally banned IPOB and pledged loyalty to Buhari...
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