Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed led the visiting team to London meet President Muhammadu Buhari who is currently receiving medical treatment in the United Kingdom. The minister was accompanied by Mr Femi Adesina, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity; Mallam Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, and Lauretta Onochie, Personal Assistant on Digital/Online Media. Also there was Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Senior Special Assistant on Diaspora Matters. The President while receiving the visiting team at Abuja House, London, on Saturday, says there is tremendous improvement in his health, indeed, he wishes to return home, “but I’ve…
Author: Ade Adeojo
The spokesman of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, Mr Femi Adesina has disclosed that the relationship between Nigeria and China is one that the President cherishes and values highly. Mr Adesina stated this when he received in audience the Vice Minister of Information of State Council, People’s Republic of China, Mr Guo Weimin who was on an official visit to Nigeria. The Presidential spokesman said the fact that the Nigerian President cherishes the cooperation between Nigeria and China automatically means there will always be areas of mutual cooperation between the two countries from which their media organisations should profit. He reiterated…
Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration is working assiduously to redeem its electoral pledges, especially in the critical areas of developing the economy as well as fighting corruption and insecurity. He urges the general public to shun naysayers want people to believe otherwise. The Minister stated this in Abuja on Friday while signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the visiting Chinese Vice Minister of The State Council Information Office, Mr. Guo Weimin, in the area of media and cultural relations. “Contrary to the lies that are being purveyed daily in the…
Nigeria’s Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has inaugurated Presidential Investigation Panel that will review the activities of Armed Forces to determine if they are in full compliance with relevant human rights obligations. He also charges the Presidential Panel to carry out duty diligently, impartially and with all sense of professionalism. “It is the responsibility of the armed forces and those of us in government to ensure that we interrogate our own activities and ensure that those activities meet up to human rights norms and basic rules of decency observed across the world,” says Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN. The observation…
Nigeria’s Minister of Communications, Barrister Adebayo Shittu has launched programme of Action plan on Restructuring and Modernising NIPOST and Strategic Plan Document Vision 2020. He said that the idea was to tackle the challenges before NIPOST which was as a result of major developments in ICT and modern means of communications; and to take advantages of this, effort would be made to create a socially, relevant economically viable and internationally respectable post-driven entity. He stated this during the launching of Programme of Action on Restructuring and Modernizing NIPOST and Strategic Plan Document-Vision 2020, adding that the first step in this…
The Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, SAN, has reiterated that reforming the justice sector is a critical component of the overall agenda of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s Administration to fight corruption. Malami also explained that components of the current government is to develop the economy, promote respect for human rights; due process and build public confidence in the justice system.` The Minister made this known in his opening address at the National Summit on Justice, 2017 with the theme: Reforming the Justice System for National Development, on Tuesday 8the August, 2017 in Abuja. Represented…
The Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osibanjo (SAN), GCON has approved the appointment of new Permanent Secretaries in the Federal Civil Service. In a release signed by the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita, the list of the successful Federal Permanent Secretaries and their states of origin are as follows:- S/N PERMANENT SECRETARY STATE OF ORIGIN 1 EHURIA GEORGINA EKEOMA ABIA 2 AKPAN EDET SUNDAY AKWA IBOM 3 ANAGBOGU IFEOMA NKIRUKA ANAMBRA 4 WALSON-JACK DIIARAU DIDI ESTHER BAYELSA 5 GEKPE GRACE ISU CROSS RIVER 6 ALIBOH LEON LAWRENCE DELTA 7 UWAIFO OSARENOMA CLEMENT EDO…
The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, has inaugurated the National Consultative Committee for Competitiveness in Raw Materials and Products Development in Nigeria. This is part of the commitment of the present administration to reposition the country on the part of sustainable development with irreversible indigenous revolution, According to the Minister, “This national Strategy is a fact-based framework designed to harness the potentials of the country’s Research & Development (R&D) institutions in partnership with industries and Business, to fast track and redirect the high –way to orderly economic recovery, double digit growth and sustainable development”. With this strategy, he…
Nigeria’s Interior Minister, Lt Gen. (Rtd) Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau, has condemned the killing of worshippers recently at St Phillips Catholic Church, Ozubulu, in Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra State, during a church service. Dambazau commiserated with the Governor of the State, Willie Obiano, the Ozubulu community, the families who lost loved ones, the injured, and the entire people of Anambra State, who are in grief as a result of the wicked and cowardly act by criminals. The Minister assured the people of Anambra State that government will work hard to unmask and deal decisively with the perpetrators of the…
The Sovereign Wealth Fund being managed by Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) has resuscitated 11 fertilizer blending plants across Nigeria, which substantially brought down the price of fertilizer, ended fertilizer subsidy and ensured the availability of the commodity. The Fund’s Managing Director Uche Orji disclosed this in Abuja on Monday, while receiving the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who paid a courtesy visit to the Authority. “We have delivered over 6 million bags of NPK 20:10:10 at 30% below the market price without subsidy. In the process of that, we have also created over 50,000 jobs. We have rehabilitated 11…