The Acting President Professor Yemi Osinbajo was in Aba, Abia State on Thursday to interact with small businesses and local manufacturers.
He pledged that government would do everything possible to assist local manufacturers.
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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.
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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 Company, CCECC will cost about 1.5 billion US dollars.
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 that erupted after the killing of 47 cattle in the area.
“Fulani militia attacked the three villages and we lost three of our gallant MOPOL while two are missing.
“We have constituted a high powered search team and by the special grace of God we are going to recover our men.
Armed Fulani-herdsmen
“On the side of the civilians, two bodies have so far been recovered,” he said.
He added that the police were able to kill some of the invading Fulani militias. He also said that more men had been drafted to the area to reinforce the team.
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