Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike
Wike sacks 21 heads of FCTA agencies, companies
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has sacked 21 heads of agencies and companies of the FCT Administration (FCTA).
Wike, in a statement by his Director of Press, Office of the Minister, Anthony Ogunleye, on Wednesday, directed the affected appointees to hand over the affairs of their offices to the most senior officers in rank.
See the full statement below:
The Honourable Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Barrister Ezenwo Nyesom Wike CON, has relieved the heads of the following parastatals, agencies and government companies of the FCTA of their appointments with immediate effect.
They are:
9. MD, Abuja Enterprise Agency
10. GM, FCT Water Board
They are to hand over the affairs of their offices to the most senior officers in rank.
Appointments into the offices will be made in due course.
Gov Sanwo-Olu gives Agege traders 2-day ultimatum to vacate train tracks (video)
Gov Sanwo-Olu gives Agege traders 2-day ultimatum to vacate train tracks (video)
The Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has given a 2-day ultimatum to traders in Agege to vacate the train tracks.
The governor gave the ultimatum after paying a visit to the Agege Station of the Red Line Rail on Wednesday, September 27.
While addressing traders selling their wares on the train track, Sanwo-Olu said
“It is a government road that is why government built everything, it’s for transportation not for the market, am telling you now, I have given you two days’ notice, everyone selling chicken they are coming to pack everything next week, you can’t stay here it’s impossible that is the reason am came myself.
We cannot have government after have invested a lot of money in these things and we are not able to use it, are you listening to me, I have told you. that’s why it’s going to be on the news and newspaper I we don’t want anybody to die when the train starts working because the train is scheduled to pass here every 10 minutes and I don’t want anybody to die here, I don’t want Wahala so all of you leave and I am going to block all the market that no one would be able to pass here.”
US president Joe Biden appoints two Nigerian-Americans as advisers
US president Joe Biden appoints two Nigerian-Americans as advisers
U.S. President, Joe Biden has appointed two Nigerian-Americans as advisers.
The appointees, Osagie Imasogie and Chiney Ogwumike are part of the 12 members of the President’s Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement in the United States, the White House announced on the official White House website.
Chairperson of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, said their appointment into the 12-member advisory council is a motivation for other Nigerians.
“The nomination of the two great Nigerians into the advisory council is a welcome development,” she said on Wednesday in a statement by the commission’s spokesman, Abdur-Rahman Balogun.
Chinenye Ogwumike is a two-time WNBA All-Star for the Los Angeles Sparks and a full-time, multi-platform ESPN commentator and NBA analyst.
Ogwumike was the 2014 WNBA Rookie of the Year and is a two-time WNBA All-Star (2014, 2018). She is proudly Nigerian-American and graduated from Stanford University with an International Relations degree under the mentorship of Dr. Condoleezza Rice.
In August 2020, she became the first Black woman to host a national daily sports-talk radio show.
The 2021 Forbes 30 under 30 honoree also holds the title of Executive Producer, producing an ESPN Films documentary “144” on the 2020 WNBA season.
While Osagie Imasogie, is the Chairman of the Investment Bank and SEC/FINRA registered Broker-Dealer, Quoin Capital and Quoin Advisors.
Imasogie is a co-founder of PIPV Capital, a private equity firm that is focused on the life sciences vertical and has invested over $1 billion into that industry.
Imasogie holds LLM degrees from the London School of Economics and the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.
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