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Ambode Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State, on Thursday, carried out a major cabinet reshuffle, dropping three commissioners and appointing five new ones. In a statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Tunji Bello, the three affected cabinet members are Mrs. Adebimpe Akinsola, Mr. Femi Odubiyi and Mr. Anifowoshe Abiola. The newly-appointed cabinet members were Mr. Hakeem Fahm (Ministry of Science and Technology); Mr. Ladi Lawanson (Ministry of Transportation); Mr. Segun Banjo (Ministry of Economic Planning and Budget); Mrs. Olayinka Oladunjoye (Ministry of Commerce and Industry) and Mr. Hakeem Sulaiman (Communities and Communications). The statement added that major deployments have also been effected.

Gov- Badaru of Jigawa state The Information Officer of the local government, Malam Nasiru Yusif, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday. “About 220 small scale traders in Gwiwa Local Government Area have benefited from N2.2 million as part of the state government’s economic empowerment programme. “The gesture was aimed at supporting the traders to improve their living standard, as well as ensure self reliance among the people of the state,” Yusif said.

President Buhari In the wake of outrage forced by the killings in Benue, Taraba and Adamawa States by herdsmen, a Presidential spokesman, Mr Femi Adesina, has frowned at those accusing President Muhammadu Buhari of condoning the massacres occasioned by farmers/herdsmen conflicts across the country. Adesina, who is the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, in a video message he posted on his personal Facebook account on Wednesday in Abuja, dismissed the insinuations that the President was condoning the killing because he is a Fulani man.