Browsing: Yushau A. Shuaib

I have always referred to Femi Fani-Kayode (FFK) as a “Fire-for-Fire” advocate, since February 2004 when I wrote a rejoinder to his unacceptable public outburst while he was Special Adviser on Public Affairs to the then President Olusegun Obasanjo. My rejoinder exposed the loophole in a statement Fani-Kayode had issued against Colonel Dangiwa Umar, a former military administrator of Kaduna State, and General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), over an issue they had with Obasanjo.

Though the Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, is being ferociously attacked by the leadership of ASUU over his insistence on the full implementation of the IPPIS across the board, the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, where IPPIS is domiciled, is also responsible for all receipts into and payments from the Federation and Consolidated Accounts.

Nigerians expected that the Boko Haram insurgency would be history within fours years, with the appointments of the late Abba Kyari as the Chief of Staff to the President; Major General Babagana Monguno (retd) as the National Security Adviser and Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai as the Chief of Army Staff, because they are all from Borno State, the epicentre of Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria.

Before her ministerial appointment, Farouq was Federal Commissioner of the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons and had served as a staff of the National Assembly Service Commission before leaving to join politics in 2010. An astute politician from Zamfara State and former National Treasurer of the All Progressives Congress, Farouq attended Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, where she obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration (Actuarial Science) and Master’s degrees in International Affairs and Business Administration.