Sentences with phrase «as military governor»

They should do the research and find out what he did as Military Governor of Kaduna state during the regime of General Sani Abacha and later Sec.

Nkanga is renouned in causing ethnic division and hatred, as military governor in Akwa Ibom state, he brought so much hatred between the Annang and the Ibibios, he banned the Annang language in the state and accused Annang people of putting JUJU on his seat at a function in Ikot Ekpene, He is Godswll Akabio's house boy, a campaign manager who could not win elections for his party in his polling unit, Akpabio is promoting the rivers crisis and so those his apologist Nkanga, Nigerians and the good people of rivers should never take a man like Idongesit Nkanga seriously, he is not regarded as an elder in Akwa Ibom where hails from.

In Imo state for example, Ike Nwachukwu as military governor sold industries which the Mbakwe government had borrowed to build, among them the Paint and Resin Industry in Mbaise, which he sold to himself; a controversial purchase for which he should still be held accountable.

My tweet of Friday April 20, 2018 was typical of the reaction, «Actually Buhari was describing himself - he didn't get a good education and has no certificate; he's lived on the Nigerian state all his life; he doesn't like work; and he's fixated on Nigeria's oil...» In truth, Buhari has not presented evidence of completing secondary school - in all the elections he contested, including in 2015 he tendered affidavits to INEC and has declined to perform the simple task of providing his school certificate; since he joined the army in 1961, he has been a «ward» of the Nigerian state and served in multiple states as military governor, as Minister of Petroleum and Chairman of NNPC board under illegal military regimes; he was himself an unconstitutional military head of state; he was Chairman of Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) under the despotic and thieving dictator, Abacha; and is now back as civilian president.

Not exact matches

According to his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said he was not among those Nigerians that can be cowed by anyone, asking; «Now that the Senate President, Bukola Saraki has come out to openly say that categorization of IPOB as a «terrorist organisation» by the military is unconstitutional, is the APC also going to accuse him of sponsoring IPOB?»

«Now Therefore I, Lieutenant - Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu - Ojukwu, Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria, by virtue of the authority, and pursuant to the principles recited above,» he announced in a broadcast, which thereafter triggered wild jubilations in the streets, «do hereby solemnly proclaim that the territory and region known as and called Eastern Nigeria, together with her continental shelf and territorial waters, shall henceforth be an independent sovereign state of the name and title of Biafra.»

Paladino told a military veterans group in East Rochester that many in the media would prefer to see Rick Lazio as the Republican nominee for governor because it would make things easier for Democrat Andrew Cuomo in the general election.

Calling on the international community, especially the United Nations and the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the heinous crime being committed by the military against Nigerians in the Southeast, Governor Fayose said there was no law in Nigeria empowering the military to declare any organization as terrorists and to kill unarmed people.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

Those at the award ceremony include the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, representative of the Executive Governor of Plateau State Dr. Gabriel Longpet, the Chairman, Plateau State Association Charity Committee in the United Kingdom, Dr. Isa Pantami, Director General NITDA and Major General Chris Jemitola, as well as senior military officers Nigerians from various walks of life based in London, intellectuals and media executives.

It noted that Military and Para-Military agencies as well as voluntary organizations, such as Boys Scouts, Girls Guild amongst others are expected to participate in the march, adding that the Governor of the State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi will declare the ceremony open by 9 am and take the salute.

In the immediate post-war period, even before the creation of the West - German state, allied military governors used the license system to prevent divisions between parties and especially encourage the creation of a large Christian - Democrat political party (as opposed to the separate catholic and protestant parties that existed during the Weimar period).

The Governor who described May 29 as a child of June 12, argued that, it was the unrelenting pursuit of the actualization of June 12 with the sweat and blood of patriots and nationalists that led to military disengagement and civilian rule on May 29.

Whereas other parts of Nigeria have dispensed with military occupation, in Igboland Ohanaeze Ndigbo and Igbo governors have actively encouraged it as a means of holding the people down for their northern masters.

«I remember there was a time one Brigade commander said it on television that Governor Shettima treats the military as first of the 28th local government area of Borno State.

Her husband, Mr. Isemin, passed on in 2009, 16 years after leaving office as governor due to the military coup in Nigeria that brought Sani Abacha, a general, into power.

Saraki had on Monday described IPOB's proscription by the military and South - East governors as unconstitutional.

Meanwhile, the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has described as ethnic cleansing the alleged maltreatment and killings of IPOB members by the military in the South - East, saying that he had forewarned that President Muhammadu Buhari's second coming would be like the dark days of the military government in 1984, when the nation quaked under heavy militarisation.

The state remains pre-eminent over most city affairs, a power the governor never shied from using: It is as if the mayor can only bring a knife and the governor avails himself of military artillery.

He was even applauded by many when he claimed he could not afford the presidential nomination form of his party despite having served as a military head of state, a key player in another military government adjudged as most corrupt by both local and international bodies, a former military governor, a petroleum minister and chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), an agency that was also alleged of corruption.

He has been fortunate to be Governor as military and civilian.

Transferring or students in military families should inquire with school division school counselors as to the availability of Academic - Year Governor's School programs in that school division and the application timeline.

State and other approvals include: Licensed by the District of Columbia — Approved by the State of Virginia — Approved as an out - of - state institution by the State of Maryland — Approved by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors — Approved for the education of veterans, members of selective service, and their dependents — Approved for the rehabilitation training of students with disabilities — Authorized by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service to accept international students — A member of Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges (SOC) with associate's and bachelor's degree programs for active duty military personnel

Originally developed as a military base, in recent years Governors Island has been an unpopulated 172 - acre island sitting enticingly close to the tip of Manhattan (and even closer to Brooklyn).

As a governor, you'll be able to guide its development into a social, trading, or military hub.

Executed on distressed unprimed linen, they were dominated by giant penis forms doubling variously as military tanks and despotic heads of state — as in Cockman # 1 (1966) in which Bernstein lampooned Governor George Wallace of Alabama, depicting the face of the southern segregationist as a pink hairy testicle sack with a flaccid member for a nose.

Author: Among the contributors to this ABA Law Student Division blog: Lauren Ritter is the ABA Law Student Division liaison to the Standing Committee on Legal Assistance for Military Personnel and a student at the University of Richmond School of Law; Sheevani Patel is the Executive Governor of the American Bar Association Law Student Division's First Circuit and a student att New England Law Boston; Karen Munoz Karen Munoz is a personal injury attorney at Dolan Law in Chicago; Berkman Bottger Newman & Rodd LLP is a boutique New York City divorce law firm; Merri Bame is an Ohio - based communications coach; Stephanie Dube Dwilson is an attorney and reporter for Heavy.com; Grover E. Cleveland is a Seattle lawyer, speaker and author of Swimming Lessons for Baby Sharks: The Essential Guide to Thriving as a New Lawyer.

He served as governor and military governor of Tennessee and United States congressman, senator, and vice president, becoming President of the United States following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.»