LAI MOHAMMED, FASHOLA MAKE FIRST BATCH OF MINISTERIAL NOMINEES RELEASED TODAY

Nigeria's President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki has formally unveiled the much anticipated list of Ministers.

At plenary today, Senator Saraki read president Buhari’s communication, which was forwarded to the Senate on the 30^th of last month.

The list, includes Dr Chris Ngige, Dr Osagie Ehaneri, Dr Ibe Kachickwu, Engineer Suleiman Adamu, Dr Kayode Fayemi, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, Lai Mohammed, Honourable Ahmed Musa Bello, Ibrahim Usman Jibrin, Senator Hadi Serika, Senator Udoma Udo-Udoma.

Others are Babatunde Fashola, Rotimi Amaechi, Abubakar Malami, Abdurahman Bello Dambazzau; Aisha Jumai Al Hassan; Adebayo Shittu;  Solomon Dalong; Rotimi Amaechi; Chief Audu Ogbeh and  Mrs. Amina Ibrahim.

The names were among the first batch of 21 nominees forwarded to the senate by President Buhari last week.      

MAN GETS ARRESTED FOR INSULTING PRESIDENT ON WHATSAPP

Insulting President Robert Mugabe on social media is a risky business, as a Zimbabwean man who's been arrested for posting a message to the wrong WhatsApp group will no doubt testify.

Nduna Matshazi, a Councillor for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, says he sent on a message about Mugabe "by mistake", the state-owned Chronicle reported this weekend.

Instead of sending it to a political chat group, Matshazi posted the message to a group of Councillors for the rural district of Bubi in southern Zimbabwe.

The group's administrator, who is not being named, reported him to the police.

It's not clear exactly when Matshazi was arrested nor in which police station he is being held.

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe 

According to the Chronicle, which is published in Bulawayo, the message is a parody of the Lord's Prayer in the Bible. The administrator of the Whatsapp group says the prayer is "twisted to demean and attack the president."

Zimbabwe's insult laws were declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court in 2013 but justice minister Emmerson Mnangagwa (who is now vice president) said they were necessary and needed to stay in place.

Commenting on the arrest, a reader posted on the Bulawayo24 news site: "Do not trust open chat groups that are easily infiltrated."