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....
Sunday, 29 January 2017
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...
Saturday, 28 January 2017
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.
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Tuesday, 24 January 2017
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...
Sunday, 8 January 2017
Three anti-riot policemen have been confirmed dead and two others declared missing following an attack by gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen in Demsa Local Government Area of Adamawa State.
Confirming the development to newsmen in Yola on Sunday,the spokesman of Adamawa State Police Command, Othman Abubakar said that the affected policemen were members of a team drafted to secure Kwayine, Gidan Dadi and Karlahi communities following clashes...
Saturday, 7 January 2017
Wednesday, 4 January 2017
A serious scarcity of kerosene has hit Kano and low income residents who depend on it for cooking are now said to be suffering untold hardship.
Information reaching Abujacitynews indicated that the scarcity which began during the Christmas and New Year celebrations was triggered by dealers who opted to sell the product to black marketers under the cover of darkness.
The development has shot the price of kerosene up to N400 a litre from the...
Tuesday, 3 January 2017
Boko Haram terrorists attacked Dar village in Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa State in the early hours of Tuesday.
According to the Chairman of Madagali Local Government Area, Alhaji Yusuf Mohammed, the insurgents were however repelled by vigilant security operatives who responded promptly to the attack.
Confirming the development, the spokesman of 28 Task-Force Battalion, Mubi, Maj. Akintoye Badare, said that the attack was contained...
Sule Yusuf Saulawa, a parmanent secretary formally attached to the office of the Deputy Governor of Katsina State was on Tuesday arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC before Justice Sanusi Tukur of the Katsina High Court on a one-count charge of Obtaining by False Pretense.
The offense according to the anti-graft agency is in contravention of section 1(1)(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences...
Two men were on Tuesday remanded in prison custody by a Kano magistrates court for allegedly raping a 13 years old girl.
The prosecutor, Suleman Danladi told the court that sometime in May 2016, the accused persons, Muhammad Abubakar, 58, and Ali Garba, 45, both residents of Hotoro Quarters, Kano had taken turns to rape the girl on several occasions.
He said that Murtala Aminu the elder brother of the victim who lives at the same address reported...
Monday, 2 January 2017
The Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika has said that concerns for the safety and security of passengers informed the decision to totally close the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
Sirika said in Abuja yesterday that the Federal Government would prefer to lose billions of naira in revenue than the lives of Nigerians.
Explaining how the repairs would be carried out, the minister said that government was aware...
The Federal Government has begun the payment of the N5000 monthly stipends promised to the poorest Nigerians by the Buhari administration.
A statement issued by Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the Vice-president on Media and Publicity on Monday said that three of the nine states selected for the first batch of the programme have started to receive the payments already.
"As part of its determined efforts to touch the lives of Nigerians...
Sunday, 1 January 2017
MY NEW YEAR MESSAGE TO NIGERIANS, JANUARY 1, 2017
My dear Compatriots,
I am happy to welcome you to the beginning of a New Year in our beloved country Nigeria.
I felicitate with you today at a time when our nation is witnessing a new and impressive turnaround in our security and socio-economic situation.
I know you will join me to, once again, congratulate the heroic and gallant efforts of our military and other security agencies on their remarkable...
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