₦airaland Forum

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am glad to inform you all that This is my HOME TOWN

Emyo:
Remita owned by Remix & Tinubu. Paystack by Yemi Osibanjo. Na them get this government.

.... and I checked your profile and discovered you're a youth. This is of all things unfortunate

rafhell:
Apostle must hear of this

Suleman don hear wella

godwon01:
Festus Adeniyi Keyamo is a colossus genius. A very brilliant bigot .A distinguish gentle man of a legal luminary of the highest. I bow to his intellectual capability. He is second to non. Nigeria is blessed with a lot of Festus but no chance to serve their fatherland. I dove my hat. Highly intellectual response. May Almighty God continue to enhance his intellectual capability.

Brilliant bigot? Do you need to check a dictionary?

philkay:
I think we should different between good and being outspoken. The two are different. Being outspoken doesn't mean the person is good

You submission here is logic-on-reverse. Let me assume you watched Keyamo's screening, let me assume you understood the questions posed to him, you mean your interpretation of Keyamo's performance at the screening is "outspokenness"?

You don't like Keyamo, obviously, but don't display it in a way that makes one question your reasoning.

Awol1:
He scored a useless goal and you are celebrating it.

I'm still wondering what happened to Ihenacho...

Laziness or village people?

Useless goal? How so? Is it useless because it's a pre-Season friendly?

Most importantly did you watch the goal? and his other miss (hit the bar)?

This headline sounds off....and unprofessional

Enugu
Geoffrey Jideofor Kwusike Onyeama belongs to the popular family of the jurist Charles Onyeama of Eke in Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State. He was the former Minister of Foreign Affairs in the last cabinet. His father Onyeama was the first Nigerian Judge. He joined the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) where he became the Deputy Director-General for the development sector in 2009.

Ekiti
Adeniyi Adebayo was the former governor of Ekiti State between May 29, 1999, and May 29, 2003. A lawyer by profession, Adebayo’s experience covers a wide range of disputes and legal and advisory work. His major achievements are in the areas of project finance, oil and gas, contract procurement and business facilitation.

Edo
Dr Osagie Ehanire is another returnee minister. He served as Minister of State for Health in the last cabinet. He was the Edo State Coordinator of the Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organisation during the 2015 general elections. He is known to have urged Nigerians to disregard the insinuations that Buhari will Islamize the country if elected president in the March 2015 elections.
Dr Ehanire is a medical doctor and an outstanding surgeon. He studied at the College of Medicine, Ludwig Maximillians University, Munich, Germany. He also holds Post Graduate Diplomas from the Teaching Hospital of the University of Düsseldorf and Essen, also Germany, in the areas of Anesthesiology, General Surgery, and Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery.

Ebonyi
The immediate past Minister of Science of Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu, is back to represent Ebonyi State. An engineer by profession, Onu who was the first civilian governor of the old Abia State, was born on December 1, 1951.
He graduated with a first-class degree in Chemical Engineering in 1976 from the University of Lagos. He went for his doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley and obtained a PhD in Chemical engineering in 1980.

Delta
Human rights activist Festus Keyamo served as Director of Strategic Communications of the Buhari Campaign Organisation during the last general elections. He began his legal career in 1993 at Gani Fawehinmi’s Chambers in Lagos State. He established his chambers after serving at the Gani Fawehinmi chambers for two years.
Keyamo is taking the place of the former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu who represented Delta State in the last cabinet. He was born on January 21, 1970, at Ughelli, Delta State. He had his primary education at Model Primary School and secondary education at Government College, Ughelli, where he obtained the West African School Certificate in 1986. He later proceeded to Ambrose Alli University at Ekpoma, in Edo State, where he received a Bachelor of Law degree in 1992 and was called to the Nigerian Bar on December 1993.

Cross River
Former Group General Manager, Crude Oil Marketing Division, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Goddy Jedy-Agba, wanted desperately to govern Cross Rivers but was stopped by powerful forces. He had left the PDP to the APC, to brighten his chances, but the job still eluded him. He has now been rewarded with a ministerial slot.
Jedy-Agba was born on August 20, 1958, in Obudu, Cross River State. He obtained his first degree in International Studies from Ahmadu Bello University, Samaru, Zaria in 1983. He holds a Master’s Degree in International Law and Diplomacy from the University of Lagos, Akoka in 1989.

Borno
Mustapha Baba Shehuri, the immediate past Minister of State for Power Works Housing, is back on the list ostensibly to give more impetus to ongoing projects in the ministry. He was born on July 4, 1961, and attended Gamboru Primary School, Maiduguri and Government Secondary School, Damagun, Borno.
Shehuri graduated from the University of Maiduguri in 2007 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Sociology and Anthropology. He served as a Councillor representing the Lamisula/ Jabbamari Ward of Maiduguri Metropolitan from 1996 to 1997. He also served as Council Chairman of Maiduguri Metropolitan Council under the defunct Grassroots Democratic Movement (GDM) from 1997 to 1998.
Between 1999 and 2003, he was a member of the State House of Assembly, representing the Maiduguri Metropolitan State Constituency on the platform of the defunct All Peoples Party (APP). He was a member of the House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011, representing the Maiduguri Metropolitan Federal Constituency on the platform of the defunct ANPP.

Benue
Former Governor George Akume, who lost his senatorial re-election bid, is back as a ministerial-nominee. He replaces former Agriculture Minister Audu Ogbeh as the state’s representative. Born on December 27, 1953, Akume was the Minority Leader of the Senate from June 2011 to June 2015. He was governor of Benue State from May 29, 1999, to May 29, 2007.
He obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and a Master’s degree in Labour Relations from the University of Ibadan. He became a career civil servant who rose to the apex of the professional career ladder as a permanent secretary.

Bayelsa
Timipre Sylva is one of the former governors on the list. Sylva governed Bayelsa between 2007 and 2011. Sylva, who was born in Okpoma, Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, on July 7, 1964, succeeded Goodluck Jonathan who became Vice President.
Sylva’s inclusion suggests that he would not contest the November 2019 governorship election in Bayelsa. He is taking the place of former Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Heineken Lokpobiri, who represented Bayelsa in the last cabinet. Lokpobiri has since picked the nomination form for APC governorship primary.
Sylvia started his primary education at St. Paul’s Anglican Primary School, Okpoma and finished at Ajeromi Central School I, Lagos in 1976. His secondary education took him to Government Secondary School, Brass from 1976 to 1981. He later studied English Language and Linguistics at the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

Bauchi
Former Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, is one of those coming back to the cabinet. An accountant, writer, former journalist, Adamu was appointed minister by the President on November 2015, along with 35 others, when Buhari made his first major appointments. Before his appointment, Adamu wrote back page column for Daily Trust newspaper.
He was born on May 25, 1956, in Katagum, Bauchi State and graduated from Ahmadu Bello University where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in Accounting. He also obtained a master’s degree in Journalism from Columbia University’s School of Journalism. Apart from English, the widely travelled Adamu is fluent in several languages, including Arabic, Persian, Fulfulde, Hausa, and French.
After graduation from University, Adamu worked briefly as an accountant in his home state of Bauchi before venturing into Journalism where he rose through ranks to become Deputy Editor of now-defunct New Nigerian newspaper.
Nigeria’s Permanent Delegate to the United Nations’ Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), Ambassador Maryam Katagun, is the second nominee from Bauchi State. She was appointed Ambassador, Permanent Delegate of Nigeria to UNESCO on June 1, 2009.
Born on November 18, 1954 at Azare, Bauchi State, Mrs Katagun possesses a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in English and a Graduate Certificate in Education from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and a Masters in Administration and Planning at the University of Lagos (1985), as well as a Certificate in Social Development Policy, Planning and Practice at the University College, London, in 1999.

Sharon Ikeazor is the second nominee for Anambra State. A legal practitioner with over 30 year’s post-graduation experience, Ikeazor was appointed to serve as the Executive Secretary of Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) in President Buhari’s first tenure.
A woman of many parts, Ikeazor has been with President Buhari since the days of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC). In 2011, she contested and won the position of National Women Leader of the CPC, one of the three major parties that merged to form the APC in 2013. After the merger, she emerged the Interim National Women Leader of the APC. Thereafter, she was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the party in 2014.

Anambra
Chris Ngige, from Anambra State, is another returning minister. Born on August 8, 1952, Ngige was governor of Anambra State from May 29, 2003, to March 17, 2006, on the platform of the PDP. Ngige who became governor in controversial circumstances later broke ranks with his political godfather, Chris Uba, after an unsuccessful attempt on July 10, 2003, to have him removed from office.
A medical doctor by profession, he graduated from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, in 1979. He immediately went into the civil service, serving at the National Assembly and State House clinics at different times. He retired in 1998 as a Deputy Director in the Federal Ministry of Health.
Dr Ngige was one of the founding members of the APC in Anambra. Indeed, he represented Anambra Central in the Senate between 2011 and 2015 on the platform of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), one of the legacy parties that metamorphosed into the APC.
Ngige was the Minister of Labour and Employment in President Buhari’s first tenure.

3. Akwa Ibom
Former Governor Godswill Akpabio (CON) is the nominee for Akwa Ibom State. Born on December 9, 1962, Akpabio who is a lawyer by profession represented Akwa Ibom Northwest (otherwise known as the Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District) at the Red Chamber between 2015 and 2019. He was the Senate’s Minority Leader before he defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
His political career started in 2002 when he was appointed by the then Governor Obong Victor as Commissioner for Petroleum and Natural Resources. In 2006, he defeated 57 other aspirants to become the governorship candidate of the PDP and eventually won the election. He was re-elected for a second term in 2011. In 2013, he was elected Chairman of the then newly formed PDP Governors Forum.
Akpabio lost his re-election bid to the Senate in the last general election. He will be remembered by the people of Akwa Ibom for the infrastructural transformation of the state capital, Uyo, and the adjoining districts.


Akpabio had a brief stint as a teacher and as an associate partner with Paul Usoro and Co., a law firm in Nigeria.[16][17]

Akpabio also worked with EMIS Telecoms Limited, a wireless telecommunications company in Lagos, Nigeria. In 2002, he rose to the position of the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the company.[17] In this position, he helped in shaping the future of the burgeoning telecoms industry. He had earlier served as the National Publicity Secretary of the Association of Telecommunication Companies in Nigeria, (ATCOM), while a director of EMIS.

2. Adamawa
Alhaji Muhammad Musa Bello who represented Adamawa State in the last Federal Executive Council (FEC) is one of the returning ministers. Bello, who was born on January 8, 1959, was the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in President Buhari’s first term.
An old boy of the Barewa College, Zaria, he is a graduate of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, where he obtained a B.Sc. in Management with a bias for Banking and Finance in 1980, as well as an MBA in the same field. He had an impressive career which spanned banking, industry, business and public service. He, at various times, was in charge of credit and marketing at the ICON Merchant Bank Plc and later a Director at Habib Bank Plc and several other top-ranking firms.
An experienced project manager, he was Managing Director of the Bakabure Industrial Complex, Yola. He also has been a member of several sub-committees of the defunct Technical Committee on Privatisation and Commercialization (TCPC).
Before he became part of President Buhari’s cabinet in 2015, he was the Chairman of National Hajj Commission of Nigeria [NAHCON] between 2007 and 2015.

Let me drop the profile of some of the short-listed Ministers, hopefully it will help (re)shape the narratives and get us to ask more pertinent questions. The reality is that there is hardly anyone on that list that does not have a somewhat impressive profile

1. Abia
Abia State nominee, Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah, was the governorship candidate of the APC in the last general elections in the state. Born on December 22, 1969), Ogah is an oil magnate, entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He is the President of Master Energy Group, a conglomerate with over 15 subsidiaries and interests across a variety of industries. He holds the Nigerian national honour, the Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON)

Ogah attended the Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Enugu State where he obtained Upper Credit at Ordinary National Diploma (OND) in 1992 and Distinction at the Higher National Diploma (HND) Level in 1995 in Accounting. He also attended the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) where he obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in 2005. He also has a Bachelor of Science degree (Banking and Finance) from Ogun State University and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Lagos, among other qualifications.

I understand prior to founding Masters Energy, he was an AGM at Zenith Bank......

peacettw:
And yet answered by well meaning individuals on this platform

Ayam not "well meaning" at alllllllllll.... Asking who is Sharon Ikeazor? Where have you been living in the last 3yrs? Mars? Mschcccheeeeewwwwwww!

seunmsg:

CaptBabosa: :


No young brilliant minds... This is just settlement of loyalparty stalwarts.. No technocrats and we expect this Government to be different and perform wonders. This is absolute rubbish.

Dare Sunday, Architect Adegbite, Festus Keyamo, Raji Fashola, Isa Pantami, Sharon Ikeazor etc are all young and brilliant technocrats.

You know for some people, if they don't know the anybody on the list, that means there are no technocrats.

peacettw:
Who is Sharon Ikpeazu?

What a question!

Doyin2:

ogunsj: :
do you know the meaning of technocrat?

Good question

A minister is a political position for the manager of men and resources under his ministry and must lead the implementation of his party's manifesto. He need not be a technocrat.

Those working under him and his advisers,are the technocrats .

Good Question.

I am not sure this your answer is correct. I ask further - Can I person be both a politician and a Technocrat?

Dansuqi:
Am very happy with the nomination of prince Jeddy agba to represent cross river on one hand.he's a technocrat and has many years of experience in nnpc.he may likely be the petroleum minister.again,his emergence prevented owan eno and usani using from being nominated.
Sadly,he's from the same senatorial district and same lga obudu as the governor ayade.ill have preferred other zones to get the ministerial post.again,he has been battling a series of illnesses for some years now,not sure if he's fit healthwise

About 5weeks ago the OPTS had confidential information, a short-list of people (if my memory serves me right Atedo Peterside, Aig Imokhuede were on the short-list) likely to be minister of Petroleum, and Jeddy Agba was the only one with Oil & Gas industry experience. It was a tough choice as the others had towering profiles in business, finance, banking etc. A major constituency are the Oil and Gas players, and I think apart from being a party member, his industry experience gave him the edge.

I was actually rooting for Atedo Peterside, but I think his fiery anti-Buhari stand knocked him out

Stanzingerzy:
Dr Uchechukwu Samson Oga, (C.e.o master Energy groups Lmtd. is the only relevant personality on the list, I see I new dazzling s light shines in Abia state, congratulations sir.
The kerosene man,
your problems have just

"Relevant Personality", as he's the only one within your "ignorant focus"

babaolofin:
Garba Shehu and other Special assistants to the President and SA to governors on Social Media and those on information are just living big on the labour of Social Media warriors who fought for so many years day and night to defend PMB and other governors. These people are not recognized . The SA on social media or SA on information might be working with Seun and bloggers, but these are not the real online warriors. I can never forget the battle of 2014/2015 between GEJ and Buhari. What about Ekiti and Osun 2014/2015 battles. The social media field warriors are not recognized but they worked more than those who collected billion for campaign.

Bros,

The "social media warriors" cannot be recognized because they operated far away, they are not party members and the reality is that they've done a thankless job. Meanwhile know that there are social media warriors that are registered party members who are not even interested in positions but rather contented to partakers in the building process. Some of them have their day-jobs and are part-time players.

TheShopKeeper:
...the list was definetely composed by Tinubu...he has got some of his people in the ministerial list...

Shebi some people thought Tinubu was sidelined?

DonJossydirich:
What was the sin of my brother.IBE KACHIKWU, I can't find his name,abi him touch oga madam?

Kachikwu's sin? Even his constituency (Oil & Gas Business Community) had turned their backs on him