Niger’s Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance, Ali Mahamane Lamine Zeine, joined his counterparts from the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) in Dakar on Wednesday for a high-level meeting hosted by Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye. The gathering marked a key moment for the eight-member bloc. It focused on assessing recent…
Dumebi Kachikwu, a former presidential candidate of African Democratic Congress (ADC), has made a new claim about former Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan. Kachikwu claimed that Goodluck Jonathan offered ex-Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, a slot of Coordinating Minister of the Economy, if he withdraws from the 2027 race to support him. Kachikwu made…
The House of Representatives has advanced a bill to its second reading, aiming to mandate the inclusion of specific portfolios in the nomination lists for Ministers and Commissioners submitted by the President and State Governors. Leading the debate, Okechukwu Dibiagwu highlighted that attaching portfolios to nominees would allow lawmakers in the national and state assemblies…
Ministerial nominees have begun the documentation process ahead of their screening and confirmation by the Senate, set to commence today (Tuesday). This was announced on Monday evening by the Special Adviser to the President on Senate Matters, Basheer Lado. Lado said, “Nominees were already submitting relevant documents as the first in the series of procedures…
The Senate will on Tuesday commence the screening of the seven new ministerial nominees. Basheer Lado, the special adviser to the President on Senate Matters, disclosed this in a statement on Monday. Mr Lado, a former senator who represented Kano Central Senatorial District between 2011 and 2015, said the nominees have started submitting their credentials…
