Browsing: Musiliu Obanikoro

The All Progressives Congress has described as an unprecedented national embarrassment the increasing seizure of Nigerian towns by the terrorist group, Boko Haram, and the reported fleeing of 480 Nigerian soldiers to Cameroon during an attack on a military base in Gamboru-Ngala, Borno State on Monday

The minister assured the retirees, who had not received their arrears, especially from the recent increase, that the issue was receiving speedy attention

The Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, while commissioning a Specialized Defence Reference Laboratory, which was a collaborative partnership effort of Nigeria’s Ministry of Defence and the United States Department of Defence, in Abuja, said that this was indeed a true evidence of commitment of President Goodluck Jonathan to the total welfare of the Nigerian Armed Forces

Obanikoro said the permanent bay would keep the trucks and trailers off the roads and would no longer hinder free flow of traffic

For more discerning Lagosians, the voting pattern reflected that as much as the electorate liked Agbaje’s campaign methodology, they didn’t know him and therefore could not trust him with their mandate. That is indeed very instructive

COSEG said both Obanikoro and Adesiyan were appointed ministers so as to use them as instruments to undermine the wishes of electorates in Osun and Ekiti States

Obanikoro said that the military had shown resilience in spite of operational challenges, adding that President Jonathanwas determined to provide more support

That is why some of us, young professionals and native Lagosians, bound by a common, deep-seated disenchantment with the way our beloved Lagos State is being run, decided to speak out about why we believe you owe our generation your robust leadership nurtured and burnished by decades of tested and trusted political and administrative aplomb

The All Progressives Congress had alleged that the minister was seen moving ballot papers to Akure, Ondo State ahead of the election due on June 21

Obanikoro made this known when he declared open a one-day symposium in Abuja entitled: “Ownership and Sustainability of Health Programmes – HIV in focus

Obanikoro made the call on Saturday in Owerri, Imo State during the second memorial lecture in honour of late Prof. Celestine Onwuliri

The minister said that whenever there was crisis such as the insurgency going on in Nigeria, all manners of things would be aired by foreign media

This led to outrage on Thursday, with a lot of Nigerians calling for the quick release of the Chibok girls before they are all killed in the same manner.

While discussing issues of insecurity in the country on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, Obanikoro berated the Lagos State Government for its Ilubirin Housing Project, condemning the location of the estate, as well as the cost at which citizens would acquire the accommodation

The massive deployment of cheap lies and blackmail by the Lagos State Government and its party in the bid to force its ideas and ways down the throat of the governed cannot be more obvious than in this situation

Obanikoro said this at a meeting of the Site Commanders and Team Leaders of the Emergency Plan Implementation Committee on HIV and AIDS

The charge was made on Thursday in Jos, Plateau state by Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, the Chairman of ITF Governing Council and Minster of State for Defence, at the 2013 Merit Award ceremony of the Governing Council

A statement issued by Dr. Reuben Abati, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, on Tuesday in Abuja, said the swearing-in would take place at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa before the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting

Jonathan on January 21 forwarded 12 names to the Senate for confirmation

Six ministerial nominees were screened on Wednesday out of the 12 names forwarded to the Senate by President Goodluck Jonathan for confirmation