Sentences with phrase «chief minister of the state»
Back in 2009, as chief minister of the state of Gujarat, he successfully pioneered India's first solar incentives.
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«The standard circulation for cabinet memoranda includes the Queen, the Prince of Wales, all members of the cabinet, any other ministers in charge of departments, the attorney general and the chief whip... Ministers of state and junior ministers do not normally receive memoranda.»
The chief minister of West Bengal state, Mamata Banerjee, said Saturday that the «Red Fort» should not be «leased out,» adding the decision was a «sad and dark day in our history.»
Working groups would otherwise resolve issues themselves, then call in the chief negotiators if needed, then ministers, and the heads of state only in rare cases.
The fire started when a spark from the unauthorized fireworks show ignited a separate batch of fireworks that were being stored at the Puttingal temple complex in Paravoor village, a few hours north of Kerala's state capital of Thiruvananthapuram, said Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, the state's top elected official.
However he is frequently seen in New York with Ms Wintour, the editor - in - chief of Vogue magazine, whom he accompanied to the White House for the state dinner in honour of David Cameron during the prime minister's visit to Washington last year.
From left, Chris Lewicki, Planetary Resources's chief executive and president; Étienne Schneider, deputy prime minister of Luxembourg; and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg on a tour of Planetary Resources in Washington State.
CHINA»S NEW LEADERSHIP: PERSPECTIVES Master of Ceremonies: Guo Weimin, Vice Minister, State Council Information Office Speakers: Xiao Yaqing, Minister, State - owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC) Fu Ziying, Chief Trade Negotiatons Representative and Vice Minister, Ministry of Commerce Hu Zucai, Vice Minister, National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) Pan Gongsheng, Vice Governor, People's Bank of China
Among those who joined us in London: Jane Griffiths, Company Group Chairman, Janssen EMEA; Neelie Kroes, Special Envoy, Startup Delta, The Netherlands; Former European Commissioner for Digital Agenda; Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi, Minister of Tolerance, United Arab Emirates; Emma Marcegaglia, President, BusinessEurope; Chairman, Eni SpA; Vice Chairman and CEO, Marcegaglia Group; Nicola Mendelsohn, Vice President EMEA, Facebook; Nicky Morgan, MP, Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities, Department for Education, U.K.; Lubna Olayan, Chief Executive Officer, Olayan Financing Company; Mary Portas, Founder, Portas; Author, Shop Girl; and Helle Thorning - Schmidt, Former Prime Minister, Denmark and Chief Executive Officer, Save the Children International.
Significantly, the United States and Britain have denied Modi a visaModi came to prominence as the hugely successful Chief Minister of Gujarat, a state of 63 million northwest of Mumbai on the Arabian Sea and the source of many immigrants to Canada.
Rationing may also start in parts of Negeri Sembilan, south of Kuala Lumpur, if there is no rain in coming days, the New Straits Times reported today, citing the state's Chief Minister Mohamad Hasan.
Modi, 63, has been chief minister of the western Indian state of Gujarat since 2001.
The monarchs in general either kept conveniently available a group of spiritual advisers or else paid such respect to the views of the hierarchy as to elevate the chief priest virtually into an important minister of the state.
By way of contrast, the Rev. Norman Dewire, the chief program coordinating executive for the United Methodist Church, pointed out that «the national United Methodist Church runs on five cents of each $ 1, supports 750 missionaries, 900 short - term missionaries, curriculum and worship materials, the largest network of private colleges in the United States, one hundred retirement homes, and the recruitment and training of ministers plus all communication materials.
The chief executive officer of the denomination, Kenneth L. Teegarden, is now the general minister, and the state secretaries are now regional ministers.
CSW's Chief Executive, Mervyn Thomas, said: «CSW is urging the US government to raise the issue of widespread hate campaigns by state and non-state actors against religious minorities in talks with Prime Minister Modi, and to insist that justice is done for the victim - survivors of violence against religious minorities.»
He has been a member of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council; a member of the State Planning Board of Karnataka; and a member of the Economic Advisory Committee of the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Chief Lai Mohammed has commenced Media tour in United States of America to keep the international community abreast with the successes recorded by President Muhammadu Buhari led federal government in Nigeria.
Among the early birds at the office were Makarfi and members of his team; former Minister of Information, Prof. Jerry Gana; a former governor of Cross River State, Liyel Imoke; Plateau State ex-governor, Jonah Jang; a former aviation minister, Chief Femi Fani - Kayode; PDP Board of Trustees member, Prof. Ahmed Alkali; and a former Chairman, DAAR Communication, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, amongMinister of Information, Prof. Jerry Gana; a former governor of Cross River State, Liyel Imoke; Plateau State ex-governor, Jonah Jang; a former aviation minister, Chief Femi Fani - Kayode; PDP Board of Trustees member, Prof. Ahmed Alkali; and a former Chairman, DAAR Communication, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, amongminister, Chief Femi Fani - Kayode; PDP Board of Trustees member, Prof. Ahmed Alkali; and a former Chairman, DAAR Communication, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, among others.
Other opinion leaders who endorsed the Ghana + Peace Campaign 2016 include; His Majesty Otumfuor Osei Tutu II, Togbe Afede XIV Agbogbomefia of the Asogli State in Ho, Osaabarimba Kwesi Atta the Omanhene of CapeCoast, Hon. Helen Ntoso the Regional Minister for Ho, Ashanti Regional Minister - Hon John Alexander Ackon, Ambassador Ashim Morton, Sheikh Nuhu Sharubutu, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo - Addo, Archbishop Charles Palmer - Buckle, Dr. Edward Mahama - flag bearer of PNC, Mr. Julius Debrah, Nana Dzamah Gyasenhene II, Daasebre Nana Kwebu Ewusi VII, Dakpema Naa Mohammed A. Dawuni Chief of Tamale, Chief of Adweso, Nana Tete Pimpong, Apostle Eric Nyamekye the Apostle of the Church of Pentecost for Koforidua Area, Rev. Solomon Saa, Hon. Appiah Kubi aspiring Member of Parliament Nana Ama Amissah III Mankesim Ohemaa, and many other opinion Leaders.
The chief lamented that he has initiated several meetings to get ministers of states and MPs from the Volta region to address basic developmental challenges in the region but has proved futile.
President Nana Akufo - Addo and ex-President Jerry John Rawlings, ministers of state and other government functionaries, have earlier been warned to stay away from a fictitious ceremony being planned in the name of Akwamu Traditional Council by the disputed paramount chief, Odeneho Kwafo Akoto III.
By the mid-1970s, she had reduced Sheikh Abdullah of Kashmir to such a state that he bowed to becoming chief minister of an Indian state.
The President's brother and his current information minister stated Chief's case as one of the reasons your rightful successor lost the 2008 election.
Other article 71 office holders set for the increment includes; Vice President — GH cents 20,529 Chief Justice — GH cents 17,107 Speaker of Parliament — GH cents 17,791 Cabinet Minister (MP)-- GH cents 16,423 Cabinet Minster (Non MP)-- GH cents 16,195 Minister of State (MP)-- GH cents 15,967 Minister of State (Non MP)-- GH cents 15,739 Regional Minister (MP)-- GH cents 15,967 Regional Minister (Non-MP)-- GH cents 15,511 Deputy Minster (MP)-- GH cents 14,826 Deputy Regional Minister (MP)-- GH cents 14,598 Deputy Minister (Non-MP)-- GH cents 14,369 Dep.
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Minister of Youths and Sports, Mr Solomon Dalong, made this known yesterday in Abuja when he paid a condolence visit to the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie - Oyegun, at the national secretariat in Abuja on the death of Prince Abubakar Audu, the late governorship candidate of the party in Kogi State election.
The Leaderships of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress are demanding for the resignation of the Minister of State, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, for alleged involved in the handling of the case of corruption against the Chief Medical Director of the Federal Medical Centre, Owerri, Dr. Angela Uwakwem.
He was appointed as the Treasurer of the Household (Deputy Chief Whip) following the 1992 general election and was the Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1993.
It held that the AG should have gotten the likes of, Mrs. Betty Mould - Iddrisu, the then Minister of Justice, Mr. Ebo Barton - Odro, then Deputy Minister of Justice, Mr. Paul Asemeni, Head of Legal department at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Mr. Samuel Neequaye Tetteh, Chief State Attorney and Mr. Magnus Rex Danquah, Chief Operating Officer of CAN 2008 Local organizing Committee (LOC) in - charge of the day today administration of the tournament and member of the Technical Committee on the Stadia Construction to court to testify for the prosecution.
Osinbajo led a delegation of the APC which include 12 governors, 10 senators, 17 ministers, five deputy governors, the national chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie - Oyegun and former governor of old Anambra State, Chief Jim Nwobodo.
Bina, who spoke at a news conference in Yenagoa on Sunday, said his open expression of displeasure to the minister was meant to affirm the superiority of Dickson as the Chief Security Officer of the state.
A former Ogun State Governor, Gbenga Daniel, a former PDP Deputy National Chairman, Chief Bode George, a former Minister of Education, Prof Tunde Adeniran, and a former PDP Governorship aspirant in Lagos State, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, are the aspirants jostling for the party's plum seat.
The rest were Mr Kwamena Duncan, the Central Regional Minister, and his deputy, Mr Thomas Adjei Baffoe, Mr Sampson Kwaku Boafo, former Ashanti Regional Minister, Mr Asamoah Boateng, the Chief Executive Officer of the State Enterprises Commission, and Mr Kweku Ofori Asiamah, Minister of Transport.
«Anybody who had headed any organisation in the country, whether as a Minister of State or Chief Executive of a public institution would have taken hundreds of decisions which could easily make one a subject of investigations whether legitimately or otherwise but this should not necessarily warrant placement in the public domain since we are all clear about its near irredeemable effect on reputations.
The Minority Chief whip, Mubarak Muntaka, stated after the presentation of the budget in an interview with Citi News that «the most shocking and the most insincere comment of the Finance Minister was when he said they had ended dumsor.»
``... And then it takes somebody, Nana Akufo - Addo, from a party completely opposed to us to come and appoint him not as a minister of state but as the chief prosecutor.
The delegations have included former Labour Minister for Education and Minister for the Arts, Baroness Tessa Blackstone, Labour's current Shadow Minister for Early Years, Tracy Brabin, and former Secretary of State for Scotland, former Government Deputy Chief Whip and Liberal Democrat MP for Orkney and Shetland, Alistair Carmichael.
Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun on Wednesday named Osun State University after former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, the late Chief Bola Ige.
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.
Prominent members of the committee include the former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and erstwhile Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, Mr Timi Alaibe, Chief T.K.O Okorotie, former Minister of Science and Technology, Mr T.T Isoun; Senator John Kojo Byran Biafa, Mr Anderson Seimokumo, former chairman of the PDP in the state, Mr Fred Agbedi, among others.
A former governor of Abia, Chief Orji Kalu, on Saturday called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC to intervene in the feud between Gov. Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State and the Minister of Communications, Mr Adebayo Shittu.
A former Minister of State for Health, Chief Arc.
Addressing State House correspondents, after Thursday's NEC meeting, Minister of Agriculture Chief Audu Ogbeh, who was joined by the Governor of Ebonyi David Umahi, Governor of Jigawa, Abubakar Badaru and the deputy governor of Lagos state, said the government can no longer continue to allow the ECOWAS Protocol that permits free movement of goods and services in respect of Cattles at the detriment of its citizState House correspondents, after Thursday's NEC meeting, Minister of Agriculture Chief Audu Ogbeh, who was joined by the Governor of Ebonyi David Umahi, Governor of Jigawa, Abubakar Badaru and the deputy governor of Lagos state, said the government can no longer continue to allow the ECOWAS Protocol that permits free movement of goods and services in respect of Cattles at the detriment of its citizstate, said the government can no longer continue to allow the ECOWAS Protocol that permits free movement of goods and services in respect of Cattles at the detriment of its citizenry.
The meeting was attended by former Deputy National Chairman of the party, Chief Olabode George; former Oyo State Governor, Senator Rasheed Ladoja, former Minister of Communications, Chief Dapo Sarumi and former PDP National Chairman (South - West), Alhaji Tajudeen Oladipo
Also in attendance at the ceremony were the State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, the outgoing Vice Chancellor and newly appointed Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole, the incoming Vice Chancellor, Professor Idowu Olayinka, the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council Dr. Umar Musa Mustapha, the Minister of Education Professor Anthony Anwukah, who was represented by the Executive Secretary of the National University Commission (NUC) Professor Julius Okojie, His Royal Majesty, Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Samuel Odulana Odugade 1, who was represented by the Elerin Olubadan High Chief Abimbola Ajibola and the Owa Obokun of Ijesa land, Oba Adekunle Aromolaran.
Prime minister: David Cameron Deputy prime minister: Nick Clegg (LD) First secretary of state and foreign secretary: William Hague Chancellor of the exchequer: George Osborne Home secretary: Theresa May Defence secretary: Philip Hammond Business secretary: Vince Cable (LD) Work and pensions secretary: Iain Duncan Smith Energy and climate change secretary: Ed Davey (LD) Education secretary: Michael Gove Communities and local government secretary: Eric Pickles Scotland secretary: Michael Moore (LD) Chief secretary to the Treasury: Danny Alexander (LD) Leader of the House of Lords: Lord Strathclyde Attorney general: Dominic Grieve
A former Federal Commissioner for Information and Ijaw national leader, Chief Edwin Clark, who adopted Amaechi as one of his sons when the latter visited him at his Kigabodo country home in Delta State to thank him for his support, some years ago, was so flabbergasted that he accused the Minister of telling lies.
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The Ekiti state government has raised an alarm over alleged plot by the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami to charge Governor Ayodele Fayose's Chief of Staff, Barrister Dipo Anisulowo; House of Assembly members; Samuel Omotoso, Segun Adewumi and Gboyega Aribisogan to court for treason.