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The Federal Executive Council presided over by President Muhammadu on Wednesday approved N2.4 billion for the construction of an indoor shooting range for nation’s aviation security. The Minister of Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, disclosed this when he briefed State House Correspondents at the end of the Council’s meeting held at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. According to him, the aim is to further train the security personnel, who have obtained Presidential approval to start carrying arms, for improved security in the nation’s airports. “Today, in council two memoranda were considered for aviation. The first is construction of…

The Federal Executive Council (FEC), on Wednesday in Abuja, approved the establishment of oil and gas parks in Akwa Ibom and Bayelsa states. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents after FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa. He said the parks, which would cost over N3 billion, were for the production of oil and gas tools. “Today, in council, the Ministry of Petroleum Resources presented two memos for the establishment of oil and gas parks. “ Council approved the oil and gas council one for Akwa…

President Muhammadu Buhari has signed five bills passed by the 8th National Assembly into law, Mr Umar Yakubu, his Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives) has said. Yakubu who made the announcement at a news conference on Wednesday in Abuja, said that the Acts were to ensure good governance in the country. The bills include the Obafemi Awolowo University Transitional Amendment Act, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi Amendment Act, the University of Maiduguri Amendment Act, the National Fertilizer Quality Control Act and the Nigerian Council of Food Science and Technology Establishment Act. He said that the…

By Harry Awurumibe, State House, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has given his approval for Nigeria’s Aviation Security to carry arms to ensure safety and security of the nation’s airports. The news was dropped Wednesday evening by the Aviation Minister, Senator Hadi Sirika while briefing State House Correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) presided over today by President Buhari. According to Sirika who came to the briefing room with Information, Lai Mohammed; Ministers of State for Transportation and Petroleum, Gbemisola Saraki and Timipriye Silva, disclosed that his ministry presented two memoranda to FEC which were also approved. “Two memo…

It has been consistently established that one of the rampaging ills of this contemporary age is the clear erosion of societal values and communal virtue. The obvious disappearance of characters and attitudes that are once seen and established as the pillars of progress and ethos of responsible living. It is a fact that the basic indices of measuring individual success and collective achievement in the socioeconomic space have been adversely altered by the prevailing ugly trend while the moral goal post at every facet of life and adventure have been completely turned upside down. Understandably, this has not just begun.…

It is common knowledge that the Federal Government on August 20th, 2019, ordered the closure of Nigeria’s border with Benin Republic, citing massive smuggling activities taking place on that corridor as the reason(s). Within this space also, Nigerians have listened with rapt attention to the Federal Government reel out how smuggling of rice and other communities from the neighbouring countries threatens the nation’s domestic rice production and frustrates the Central Bank  of Nigeria(CBN)’s Anchor Borrowers Programme. Expectedly, the decision has elicited various comments from numerous stakeholders. While Pro-border-closure expressed the view that though the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)…

On Wednesday October 9, President Muhammmadu Buhari, GCFR, summoned all the Ministers that served under him when he was the military Head of State between January 1984 and August 1985. He summoned them to the State House in Abuja in what is now referred to as the reunion of class 84/85. Why President Buhari summoned these Ministers after more than four years as President and after he has been overthrown as a Military ruler since 1985 could be better explained by President Buhari himself. At the reunion, one of the former Ministers, Major General Mohammed Magoro (78), the present Galadima…

Nigerian singer, songwriter, and record producer, David Adedeji Adeleke aka Davido, has deposited the sum of $100K (N36million) to purchase customised jewelry for Zlatan Ibile, Skibii and seven other members of his 30BG (30billion gang) The singer rewarded the Nigerian rapper, songwriter and dancer Omoniyi Temidayo Raphael aka Zlatan Ibile, who is also in the United States of America with a customized neck chain and 30 BG pendant. Zlatan got his gift from Davido after he attended the 40th birthday of the singer’s big brother and also met his dad, Dr Deji Adeleke. The delighted Zlatan took to his Instagram…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday inaugurated the 2020 Emblem Appeal Launch for the Armed Forces Remembrance Day celebration with a donation of N10 million on behalf of the Federal Government. The president made the donation shortly before the commencement of the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Buhari encouraged all citizens to donate generously in support of veterans and dependents of the fallen heroes. The president also called on Nigerians and others resident in Nigeria to procure and wear the emblem with pride, to identify with those who sacrificed their lives for the peace and…

The police on Wednesday arraigned a 42-year-old man, Omale Akor, before an Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrates’ Court for alleged theft of MTN generator worth N1.8 million. Akor, whose address was not given, is facing a charge of stealing. The prosecutor, Insp. Johnson Okunade told the court that the defendant and others at large, committed the offence on Feb. 7 at Omisanjana in Ado-Ekiti. He alleged that the defendant and his accomplice conspired and stole one CAT 20 KVA generator valued at N1.8 million belonging to MTN at Omisanjana in Ado-Ekiti. He said the offence contravened Section 390 of the Criminal Code,…