Maku said that the committee, to be approved by Jonathan, would ensure prompt implementation of the White Paper released on the report on Monday
Browsing: Labaran Maku
These decisions, alongside another that offers employment to the relatives of the over 20 dead victims and those injured during the exercise on Saturday, were taken at the Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday
The Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, while briefing State House correspondents after the weekly FEC meeting, said the loan was approved following a memo brought to Council by the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Maku said this when he spoke to newsmen after the 2014 budget defence of his Ministry before the Senate Committee on Information, Media and Public Affairs
Maku described Abubakar and other key figures in the Peoples Democratic party who defected to the opposition All Progressives Congress as lacking in political ideology
A statement issued by the Minister’s Press Secretary, Joseph Mutah, in Abuja said the minister bared his mind when he received a delegation from Agwada, the senator’s hometown, on a courtesy visit
In a statement issued in Lagos on Thursday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party accused the Minister of engaging in an emotional outburst that is devoid of reason or logic by describing as anti-national interest and anti-development the APC’s directive to its members in the National Assembly to withdraw cooperation with the Executive until peace returns to Rivers State
Oloye Akinjide also said that opening up new districts would make available affordable housing sites for Nigerians as co-operatives and registered associations of workers in private and public service are favourably considered
Nebo expressed the hope that the reinforcement of the line would improve the nation’s transmission capacity and facilitate the evacuation of stranded generation from Afam and Okpai power plants
“By the time all the power plants are completed, it is then Nigerians will appreciate the renewed efforts of Mr. President on power supply in the country
In a statement issued in Lagos on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the fact that Maku is of the Eggon ethnic stock, to which the Ombatse cult/militia group behind the Nasarawa State crisis has been linked, has made his new role as the Supervising Minister of Defence untenable
Maku, is to oversee the Ministry of Defence
He said there is no where in the world where the leader does not retool from time to time
Maku said: “If we say every particular problem we face in this countr,y we will not work until it is resolved, then I’m sure there is no sector that will work
He said that the Federal Government had completed 150 out of the 220 injection sub-stations being constructed to stabilise and hold the power to be generated
Uduaghan, who has been championing the “Delta Beyond Oil” initiative in the last six years, said he was the happiest Nigerian at the venue of the opening ceremony with the decision of Nigerian editors to expand the scope of his vision to the national level
Maku said: “Following a memorandum presented by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Olugbenga Ashiru, Council ratified the Arms Trade Treaty adopted by the UN General Assembly on April 2, 2013
The breakdown of the contracts, according to the Minister of Works, Mike Onolememen, and his Minister of State, Ambassador Bashir Yuguda, who both flanked Maku, showed that contract for the reconstruction of Apapa-Oshodi Expressway in Lagos State was awarded to Julius Berger in the sum of N14.9 billion for a period of 15 months
He said: “We have contradictions in the polity and this is one of the things that is affecting the way we are perceived and these are the constraint of our works
Maku, stated further that a lot has been achieved in the areas of job creation and poverty alleviation due to fundamental reforms being carried out by President Goodluck Jonathan