The Kaduna State House of Assembly has inaugurated a 13-member committee to investigate the former governor of the state Nasir El-Rufai and how he expended the $350 million World Bank loan during his administration as well as other financial spending and abandoned projects initiated by the immediate past government between 2015 to 2023. The speaker…
The Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona has installed the former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai as the Gbobaniyi of Ijebuland. The chieftaincy title was conferred on the ex-governor on Saturday, December 16, 2023, alongside a governorship hopeful in Ogun state, Jimi Lawal, and his wife, Maryam. El-Rufai is the first person outside the South…
Nasir El-Rufai, the former Kaduna state governor, and ministerial nominee of President Bola Tinubu, has withdrawn his interest in the appointment. Recall that El-Rufai visited the President a day after the Senate confirmed 45 ministerial nominees after a week-long screening and confirmation. Recall that the nominations of El-Rufai (Kaduna), Sani Danladi (Taraba), and Stella Okotete…
The Senate has confirmed 45 out of the 48 screened ministerial nominees by President Bola Tinubu. Three nominees including Nasir el-Rufai (former governor of Kaduna); Stella Okotete (Executive Director, Business Development of the Nigerian Export-Import Bank from Delta State) and Senator Abubakar Danladi (a former governor of Taraba State), were stepped down. Senate President, Godswill…
The Senate has unveiled President Bola Tinubu’s 28 ministerial nominees which include the immediate past Kaduna State governor, Nasir Ahmed El-Rufai and former Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike among 26 others. The Senate President, GodsWill Akpabio, who read the names at the plenary on Thursday said the list of the ministerial nominees was personally delivered…
