Tag Archives: Buhari

The Federal High Court, Abuja on Thursday held that President Muhammadu Buhari’s Executive Order 6 is in line with the 1999 Constitution. The judge, Ijeoma Ojukwu, made the pronouncement while delivering judgment in a suit filed by two lawyers; Ikenga Ugochinyere and Kenneth Udeze, challenging the legitimacy of the order. Mrs. Ojukwu held that it was within the powers of ...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the Federal Government has spent N1.7 trillion in capital investment in two budget years. Osinbajo disclosed this while addressing participants at the 9th Presidential Quarterly Business Forum held at the State House Banquet Hall on Monday in Abuja. The vice president said that infrastructure development was crucial in economic growth and job creation. He commended ...

The Presidency says Nigeria will sign more agreements with China in the next couple of days as the 7th Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) is underway in Beijing. The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari, Mr. Garba Shehu, said this on Monday during an interview with Channels Television’s Politics Today, in reaction to the pledge of the Chinese government to ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday sympathised with the victims of Jos Terminus Market where more than 200 shops were destroyed by fire. Buhari expressed his feelings in a statement issued by Malam Garba Shehu, his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, in Abuja on Sunday. Reports show that properties worth millions of naira, were on Saturday morning destroyed in ...

The China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) has concluded the selection of successful applicants for its controversial railway scholarship, sources revealed. The scholarship would involve sponsoring over two score Nigerian undergraduate students in Chinese universities to study railway engineering. It is part of the CCECC’s corporate social responsibility having benefitted from major railway and other construction projects across Nigeria. However, ...

The Nigerian government said it intends spending about N70 billion on infrastructural development within the country’s capital city Abuja. This was disclosed by Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mohammed Musa Bello at the opening ceremony of the Abuja Investment Expo themed: “Land development: A catalyst for economic advancement.” But the spending plan has to be approved by the National ...

Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has announced that President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the disbursement of funds recovered from looters under the 2018 federal budget. He made the announcement at the Herbert Macaulay Memorial Lecture organised by the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, yesterday. The Minister also disclosed that the President had approved N120 billion from the funds ...

As controversies continue to rage over the 2018 budget recently signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian Institutution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV) has declared that Nigerians were tired of excuses. Mr. Rowland Abonta, the President of NIESV, spoke on Thursday in Enugu, where he accused the political leaders of justifying their failure to address critical issues ...

Earlier this month, President Muhammadu Buhari approved the establishment of a Presidential Infrastructure Development Fund (PIDF) with seed funding of $650m from the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Dividend Account as approved by the National Economic Council (NEC). The fund will be managed by the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) and invested specifically in critical road and power projects across ...

Minister of Power, Works and Housing Babatunde Raji Fashola has said that the current Buhari administration paid road contractors in the South East more than the previous administration of Goodluck Jonathan. The Minister stated this on Thursday during the inspection of Ikot Ekpene Boarder-Aba-Owerri dualization road, Section I, Phase I. Fashola, while interacting with the contractor handling the project, said ...