President Muhammadu Buhari has defended his decision to construct railways and roads extending into the Niger Republic. Buhari said this during an interview on Arise Television which aired on Thursday. The President said borders were arbitrarily drawn by the French colonialists without taking into cognisance the cultural similarities of the people of Niger and…
President Muhammadu Buhari has said pointedly that nobody will invest in a country that is not secured. Consequently, Mr Buhari has admonished Nigerian youth to behave themselves so that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) could come for them to be gainfully employed. The President was responding to a question on how to attract FDI to generate…
President Muhammadu Buhari has defended his choices for appointments saying that those he appointed into offices in his administration have been on merit. The Nigerian leader stated this during an exclusive interview with Arise News on Thursday. According to the President, the choice of Major General Farouk Yahaya as the country’s new Chief of Army…
The Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) has decided to suspend its strike, which has been in effect for over two months, from Monday. This decision was made during the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held between the body and the federal government in Abuja. The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Ibrahim Muhammad, was…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd); Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, and former Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, and others will meet Thursday in Abuja on the state of the nation. The meeting, which will be held under the auspices of Interfaith Initiatives for Peace, was…
President Buhari Thursday inaugurated the commercial operations of Lagos-Ibadan railway project at the Mobolaji Johnson Railway Station, Ebute Metta, Lagos, describing the feat ‘‘as another milestone in the drive of this Administration to revitalize the railway system and establish it as a choice mode of transportation for both passengers and freight.’’ The President pledged that…
The Federal Government has declared Monday, June 14 as a public holiday to mark this year’s Democracy Day. This is as the government warned against agitations capable of threatening the peace of the country. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, was quoted to have said this in a statement by the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Shuaib…
President Muhammadu Buhari turned down a question posed to him on Nigeria’s ban of microblogging platform Twitter but insisted on armed response to the troubles in the South-east. “I will keep that to myself,” Buhari said about his stance on the Twitter ban, in an Arise TV interview broadcast on Thursday morning. The federal government…
The Ikeja branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has said the Judicial Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) called off its strike too early, without achieving its aim of financial autonomy of the judiciary. Newsmen report that the 64-day-old strike, the longest industrial action in the Nigerian judiciary, was suspended on Wednesday, following a meeting…
The federal government says it will withdraw monies from “special reserve lobby accounts” to part-fund its N895 billion supplementary budget approved by the Federal Executive Council (FEC). Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, disclosed this in Abuja on Wednesday. Ms Ahmed said the next step would be to present a bill to the National Assembly for…