U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that his administration was seriously looking at ending the right of citizenship for U.S.-born children of noncitizens and people who immigrated to the United States illegally. “We’re looking at that very seriously, birthright citizenship, where you have a baby on our land, you walk over the border, have a baby - congratulations, the baby is now a U.S. citizen. ... It’s frankly ridiculous,” Trump told reporters outside the White House. Trump has made cracking down on immigration a central plank of his presidency and re-election campaign, but many of the administration’s sweeping rule…

1) Uchechukwu Ogah – Abia, Mines and Steel Development, State 2) Muhammed Musa Bello – Adamawa, FCT 3) Godswill Akpabio – Akwa Ibom, Niger Delta 4) Chris Ngige – Anambra, Labour & Employment 5) Sharon Ikeazor – Anambra, Environment, State 6) Adamu Adamu – Bauchi, Education 7) Maryam Katagum – Bauchi, Industry, Trade and Investment, State 8) Timipre Silva – Bayelsa, Petroleum, State 9) George Akume – Benue, Special Duties 10) Mustapha Baba Shehuri – Borno, Agriculture, State 11) Godwin Jedi-Agba – Cross River, Power, State 12) Festus Keyamo – Delta, Niger Delta, State 13) Ogbonnaya Onu - Ebonyi, Science…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday told incoming ministers that all requests for meetings with him should pass through his chief of staff, Mr Abba Kyari. Mr Buhari said this in his closing remarks at a presidential retreat for ministers-designate in Abuja. “In terms of coordination, kindly ensure that all submissions for my attention or meeting requests be channelled through Chief of Staff, while all Federal Executive Council matters be coordinated through Secretary to the Government of the Federation,” Buhari said. Kyari has been criticised by some Nigerians including members of the ruling party, APC, for his influence over the president.…

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved replacements for heads of Federal Government agencies recently appointed as ministers. A statement by the president’s spokesman, Mr Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Tuesday, said Mr Basheer Mohammed was appointed Federal Commissioner, National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons. Mohammed replaces Sadiya Umar Farouk, a minister-designate from Zamfara. According to the statement, Chioma Ejikeme has been appointed Executive Secretary, Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate, replacing Sharon O. Ikeazor, while Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi is now Director General/CEO, National Information Technology Development Agency. “For Executive Commissioner (Stakeholder Management), Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Mr Buhari has forwarded…