President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the Senate to cooperate with his administration in fixing the country's roads and rail ways.
He also urged them to ensure that the country does not default in payment of counterpart funds for projects.
President Buhari who hosted Senators to a dinner at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa in Abuja urged them to help sustain the tremendous goodwill which the country presently enjoys across the globe by supporting his administration.
“We are enjoying tremendous goodwill outside this country. Whatever...
Wednesday, 25 November 2015
The University of Benin on Tuesday installed the Emir of Kano, His Royal Highness,
Muhammad Sanusi II as its Chancellor.
President Muhammadu Buhari was represented at the event by the Minister of Education, Alhaji Adamu Adamu.
Read the President's stern warning to university administrators across the country as delivered by Adamu.
“This administration is committed to providing funding for the university system and indeed for the entire education sector. But I must warn that the Federal Government will not fold its hands and watch unscrupulous...
The Federal Government has declared that it will commence the payment of N5000 monthly stipends to the unemployed next year.
It said that the project could not begin this year because it was not captured in the 2015 budget.
Minister of Youths and Sports, Mr Solomon Dalong, said this in Abuja on Tuesday during a condolence visit to the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, at the party's national secretariat over the death of Prince Abubakar Audu who flew the party's flag in last Saturday's Kogi...
Mr. Miebi Bribena, a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC in Bayelsa State, is by now in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC explaining his role in a contract scam at the Presidential Amnesty Programme.
Bribena who is said to have benefited immensely from the Amnesty Programme was reportedly picked up by EFCC operatives on Wednesday.
He is presently being detained at the agency’s headquarters in Wuse, Abuja, where he was earlier quizzed for several hours.
Abujacitynews learnt that Bribena is...
Tuesday, 24 November 2015
The Senate on Tuesday resolved to quickly process the N465b Appropriation Bill to complement the efforts of the executive arm of government in resolving the ongoing fuel crisis in the country.
To this end, the Senate has directed its Committee on Appropriation to submit its report for deliberation and passage on Tuesday next week.
The upper chamber explained that the decision to quickly pass the supplementary budget was to facilitate speedy payment of outstanding subsidy claims of N413.3bn to oil marketers....
Senators on Tuesday shot down a motion seeking to make the upper chamber invite President Buhari to explain the persistent hardship being suffered by Nigerians over the lingering fuel crisis in the country.
Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe supported by other PDP Senators had proposed that the President should be invited in his capacity as the Petroleum Minister to explain what he is doing to address the key issues in the sector.
However, the motion was overruled by the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki with a warning to the senators against playing...
The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier-General, Johnson Olawumi, said on Tuesday that the ban on hijab-wearing in its orientation camps would remain in place as it was meant “for security reasons.”
Olawumi said this while addressing a group of Muslim youths under the aegis of Muslim Youths in Da’wah who had come to the national headquarters of the NYSC in Abuja to protest against the prohibition of Muslim women from wearing long hijab in orientation camps.
The National Coordinator of the group , Luqman Hassan;...
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