PHOTOS: Former Aviation Minister, Stella Oduah Bags Chieftaincy Title

Nigeria’s former Aviation Minister, Princess Stella Oduah has been honoured in her hometown. She was honoured on the 7th of June, 2014 by the traditional ruler of Ogbaru in Anambra State, Igwe Nelson Ethmal, who crowned her with the title ‘Ada Eze Chukwu’ for her outstanding service to Nigeria.

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IT IS RAINING "INSIDE" MURITALA MOHAMMED INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (PHOTOS)

The rains are here again, and our transformation Airport is really telling the story in the best way possible.

This is the recently renovated Muritala Mohammed International Airport. As you can see it is raining inside the building,buckets and pails were brought out to collect the rain, unfortunately there seems to be an insufficient number of even  buckets and pails to do the job.

Somebody got paid in millions of dollars to do this job. Nigeria!!! Nigeria!! Nigeria! Who has bewitched you to this extent?

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Finally, Stella Oduah Is Allowed To Resign

Channels TV reports four ministers resigned including aviation minister Stella Oduah... Other ministers are...

-Minister of the Niger Delta, Godsday Orubebe, 

-Minister of Police Affairs, Caleb Olubolade 

-Minister of State For Finance, Yerima Ngama

It's been a while since many have clamoured for her dismissal due to the controversies surrounding her reign as minister .Last year, she also said she wasn't going to resign ...

AVIATION MINISTER, STELLA ODUAH, TAKES MEDICAL LEAVE TO EVADE CERTIFICATE SCANDAL

Sahara Reporters has been informed that ,the Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, informed President Goodluck Jonathan that she was in Brazil to attend to her medical needs, after which she left for an undisclosed country. Mrs Oduah, following the breaking of the story of her certificate Scandal, by Sahara reporters has not returned to Abuja, presidency sources said on  Tuesday.

American Education Department, University Confrims stella Oduah's Honorary Ph.D is Fake

The American National Centre for Education Statistics has told PREMIUM TIMES that the Pacific Christian University, Glendale, which Aviation Minister, Stella Oduah, claimed awarded her a doctorate degree, does not exist, confirming this newspaper’s Wednesday’s report that the minister’s purported honorary Ph.D is fake.
The National Centre for Education Statistics is an agency under the U.S. Department of Education.

Stella Oduah Scrambles To Cover Up certificate Forgery scandal

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Embattled Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, and her associates have spent the last several hours today scrambling to clean up the minister’s biographies on the Internet, following allegations that she lied about her academic qualifications.

An apparently troubled Minister Oduah removed all traces of St. Paul’s College from her social media accounts.

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wwikipedia and personal website.

The minister has returned to revise her Wikipedia page multiple times today. The latest revision was done at 9pm Nigerian time. 

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N255 Scandal: Oduah Should Be Appreciated Not Persecuted

 

A Lagos-based businessman, Chief Sam Anyanwutaku, has faulted the  House of Representatives call for the sack of the Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, saying she ought to be compensated for transforming nation’s airports rather than being sacked.

The House  report recently found Oduah guilty of breach of the 2013 Appropriation Act by approving expenditure of about N643million for the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) to procure 54 vehicles this year.

The lawmakers noted that Oduah’s approval limit as a minister was N100million and, therefore, wanted the minister sacked.

But Anyanwutaku, who is the Managing Director/Chief Executive of ASKCO Group of Companies, in a statement, said since the minister had not been declared corrupt, inefficient or to have fraudulently enriched herself and her office, she should be left alone to continue the good work she has been doing in the aviation sector.

Oduah Spend N800 On Vehicles In 2014

 

After spending N643million on 54 vehicles in 2013 the Aviation Minister is proposing to spend at least N800millon on vehicles  in 2014.
The budget proposal, obtained by P.M.NEWS, shows that Oduah will spend N250 million on eight operational vehicles for the Accident Investigation Bureau, AIB, a small agency of the ministry with personnel cost estimated at N150 million yearly.
The budget provision shows each vehicle will cost N30.125million. Many of the SUV brands available in the Nigerian market sell between N5m and N15m.
The minister, who appears to be a car freak will also shell another N500 million to buy a truck for the agency.
And in her main ministry, She will spend another N50 million on staff buses.
The budget proposal shows that the Ministry of Aviation will spend over N137 million on foreign trips.
Oduah will also spend N100 million on her controversial Aerotropolis Consultants, the city-airports she claims Nigeria desperately needs.
She will then spend another N20 million on other types of consultancies and another N425 million on consultancy of institutional reforms, legal services and commercial.
General consulting and professional services for the Nigerian Meteorological Agency will gulp over N8 million.
On airport internal access roads, Oduah would spend N200 million and another N100 million on Bilateral Air Services Agreements. She will also spend N100 million on security gateways on express roads.
The budget proposal shows that Oduah will also spend N100 million on airport toll gates and another N100 million to paint and repair runways.
Oduah will also equally N820 million on the maintenance agreement for the TRACON support services.
The Ministry of Aviation will spend over N13 million on refreshment and meals and another N9 on publicity.
In all the ministry has earmarked N26 billion for capital expenditure, N18 billion out of which will go into her pet project of ‘remodelling the country’s airports’.
Outside of this, she also plans to spend N250 million to plant flowers in the country’s main airports in Port Harcourt, Lagos, Abuja, Kano and Enugu.
 Her recurrent budget is estimated at N6 billion making the total budget of the ministry to be N32.3 billion.

Source:Sahara Reporters

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