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PHOTOS: Shettima Meets Putin
Vice-President Kashim Shettima recently met with President Valdimir Putin of Russia at St Petersburg, capital of the country.
Shettima is currently representing President Bola Tinubu at the ongoing Russia-Africa Summit.
Global leaders are attending the 2nd Russia–Africa Summit and Russia–Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum focused on strategising to enhance relations between Russia and the African continent, among other benefits.
El-Rufai, Wike, other nominees face Senate screening Monday
The Senate will, on Monday, commence the screening of the ministerial nominees submitted to it by President Bola Tinubu on Thursday.
This is just as indications emerged that the President will create new ministries and form his full cabinet in two weeks.
Speaking shortly after the names of 28 nominees sent to the federal lawmakers were read on the floor by the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, the Senate spokesperson, Yemi Adaramodu (Ekiti South), said the Upper Chamber had suspended all its activities to commence the screening immediately.
Why portfolios were not attached to ministerial list – Gbajabiamila
President Bola Tinubu did not attach portfolios to the ministerial list sent to the Senate so he could have the latitude of freedom to tinker with it if necessary.
The Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, made this disclosure in an interview with correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Thursday, explaining that why it would have been the best idea, fixing portfolios to the names will cause problems if the President changes his mind after they have been screened.
Asked why portfolios were not attached, he said: “Yes, I mean for me that would have been one way to go about it. It would have been a welcome development. As good as that sounds it straight-jacket the President to pigeonhole one person in an office or the other.
“What happens then if you change your mind? Do you then bring the person back for screening again, because the President is at liberty to change your mind?
“For instance, if I decide I want somebody as Minister of Labour, and then after setting the name, later on, I decide that, you know what, I didn’t know this about this person, this person would actually be better with another portfolio.
“And meanwhile, the senate has screened that person for that particular initial portfolio, what happens then? Do you now rescreen the person?”
11 states to wait as Tinubu sends 28 nominees to Senate for confirmation
Eleven states of the federation will have to wait as President Bola Tinubu forwarded a list of 28 ministerial nominees through his Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila to the Senate for screening and confirmation, yesterday.
The constitution requires that at least a minister comes from each of the country’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.
The states that have to wait are Adamawa, Bayelsa, Gombe, Kano, Kebbi, Kogi, Plateau, Lagos, Osun, Yobe, and Zamfara.
President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, yesterday received the long-awaited ministerial list from President Bola Tinubu, thereby putting an end to weeks of anxiety and speculations about who would make the list.
Overpriced airfares, N795/$ exchange rate foreclose holiday trips for average Nigerians
As summer travels rev up globally and one of the busiest periods in the post-pandemic era in sight, overseas holidays are fast becoming a luxury that many Nigerians can no longer afford.
Despite inflation and airfares surging past pay grades and holiday savings, the Lagos and Abuja international airports are still packed and international jumbo jets full.
In their cabins are over 40 per cent of Nigerian flights that are now booked from neighbouring countries and overseas – in Nigerians’ desperate efforts to beat the airfare inflation trap, but with attendant revenue loss to local travel agencies and Nigerian economy, WOLE OYEBADE reports.
At the new RoE, uniformly used by the Global Distribution Systems (GDSs) of airlines, a six-hour Lagos-London Economy class ticket now ranges between N1.1 million to N4.2 million – subject to airline of choice, place, time of booking, and availability.
Its Business class variant sells for between N3 million and N12 million.While the rich may have very little complaint, the middle class that are near dependent on air travel are exploring options of booking Nigerian flight tickets either from neighbouring African countries, Europe or America.
Aviation stakeholders confirmed that the bypass of the high-end local market explains the full capacity of international flights departing from Lagos and Abuja, despite high inflation and low patronage in the Nigerian market.
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