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Yusuf was suspended by the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, for alleged involvement in a N191 million mismanagement of the Agency’s fund

Mohammed said this on Wednesday while speaking with State House Correspondents after the Federal Executive Council meeting

When The PUNCH correspondent reached out to him to respond to the allegations levelled against him last December, Yusuf had said: “F*ck you, and f*ck the minister”

The governor, accompanied by two serving senators and two members of the House of Representatives from the state, met with the Chief of Staff to the President, Malam Abba Kyari, at the Presidential Villa.

The Commander of the team, ACP Abba Kyari, who confirmed the rescue operation to newsmen in Lagos, said that two of the suspected kidnappers were arrested.

It was an evening of accolade, advice and emotion as colleagues and staff in the Office of the Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari bade farewell to Abubakar, who until his appointment was a Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs/International Relations in the office of the Chief of Staff.

Abdulkadir, who was one of the participants at the recent meeting of critical stakeholders in the nation’s oil sector, said the demolition of the retail outlets had become necessary to ensure availability of the products.

Though the Senate is on break, the committee was mandated to conduct the public hearing because of the urgency of the matter

Abdullahi said in the statement: “The attention of the Senate has been drawn to a claim said to have been made by the Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari, during a meeting with stakeholders in the oil industry on the perrenial fuel scarcity in the  country to the effect that the payment of debt owed to oil marketters was being delayed because the National Assembly has not approved request presented to the legislature for loan meant for that purpose.

The meeting, which was presided over by the Chief of Staff to the President, Alhaji Abba Kyari, was held at the old Banquet hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The meeting was also attended by the Minister of Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu; Director-General of the Department  of State Services, Lawal Daura; and the Group Managing Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, Maikanti Baru.

An industry player who spoke on condition of anonymity, described the said “memo” being circulated by a section of the online media as “non-existent and another grand design by the Minister and his cronies to discredit and embarrass President Muhammadu Buhari and his Chief of Staff, Abbah Kyari”.

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According to information available to The Eagle Online, items recovered from the kidnappers included two AK47 rifles, six magazines loaded with 180 rounds of live ammunition, all hidden in a special compartment constructed under the operational vehicle of the kidnappers.

NAN, however, gathered that the President’s family, led by his wife, Aisha, and some presidential aides, led by Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, had planned a low-key birthday celebration for the President, where they would present birthday cards to him.

This was contained in a statement issued in Ado Ekiti on Friday and signed by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka

Copies of the petition, written by his lawyer, M. A. Daramola, were also sent to the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari; the Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazzau; the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris; and the Director of the Department of State Services in Ekiti State.

NAN observed that before the arrival of President Buhari at the Council Chamber, Kyari and Oyo-Ita hugged themselves while greeting

The appointment was said to have been quietly approved by President Muhammadu Buhari over the weekend

The fraudster was arrested on Friday, The Eagle Online learnt