Last Tuesday, the Acting President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo met with a delegation from General Electric led by their CEO, Jeff Immelt at the State House, Abuja.
One of the issues discussed was the proposed concessioning of the East-West lines of the Nigeria Railways to General Electric.
The American firm is expected to invest $2b on the refurbishment of the single-gauge lines and the building and assembling of train coaches.
See photos from the meeting.
The Minister of Sports, Barrister Solomon Dalung is bereaved. He shared his grief over the demise of his first wife on Facebook on Sunday.
"Solomon Dalung
I AM BEREAVED:
For it is appointed for man to live thereafter comes death and judgment says the Holy Bible. While in the Quran, it states that it is appointed that every soul shall test death.
My heart is heavy, I cannot continue, I lost my first wife, Mrs Briskila this morning. May her soul and the souls of faithful departed rest in the bosom of the Lord, amen.
What a black Sunday."
Acting President Prof Yemi Osinbajo on Friday met with a delegation from the World Food Program, WFP at the State House, Abuja.
The delegation was led by the Executive Director of the WFP, Ertharin Cousin.
In conjunction with the Inter-Ministerial Task Force, the WFP is said to have fed about 1.01 million Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs in the Northeast in Dec 2016.
See photos.
The Federal Government has paid its N72b counterpart fund for the modernization of the Lagos-Ibadan railway.
The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amechi disclosed this on Monday during the quarterly Presidential Business Forum presided over by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, the project which is to be handled by China Civil Engineering Construction Company, CCECC will cost about 1.5 billion US dollars.
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