All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has said that the provision of adequate power is the priority of the country and the administration has created the environment for profitable investment in the sector.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Nigeria: Waziri is New EFCC Chairman (Lagos)Funso MurainaSpeculations as to the fate of Mallam Nuhu Ribadu as the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) were laid to rest yesterday.Five months after he was controversially sidelined and ordered to proceed on study leave, Ribadu was yesterday officially replaced as the chairman of the anti-graft agency.President Umaru Musa...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has approved the utilisation of 1.65 per cent of the federation account as a special intervention fund for agricultural development.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
State minister of information and communication, Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki Nakande, said last night that President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, is not planning to resign his position as a result of ill-health, contrary to the rumour in some quarters.
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President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, has ordered immediate commencement of execution of the first phase of the multi-billion Naira Zauro Polder Irrigation Project in Kebbi State, as part of the long time solution to the current global food crisis. The project, estimated to cost over N18.5 billion, covering over 10,000 hectares along the Rivers Rima and Niger, is to be jointly financed by the Federal,...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
... to the Ministry of Agriculture from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). He said President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua was determined to ensure that the country bounces back on the track of food sufficiency.In a chat with selected media yesterday, Minister of Agriculture and Water Resources, Dr Sayyadi Abba Ruma, expressed happiness that for the first time in decades, fertilizer was getting to farmers...
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... even as you take on this difficult challenge", he told Dr. Adamu.He called on Nigeria's President Musa Yar'Adua, the government and the private sector to support Dr. Adamu and his team to ensure their success, adding that sports journalists should also help develop football in West Africa for the benefit of the youth, in the drive towards true regional integration.Responding, Dr. Adamu assured...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
According to him, the Federal Government is increasingly committed to the National Food Security, especially by approving the sum of N80 billion as agricultural development fund by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and that the fund is not for rice alone, but for agricultural development in the area of storage, processing and market infrastructure.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua yesterday approved the appointment of a retired assistant inspector general of police, Mrs. Farida M. Waziri as the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Afrigator (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Let us hope this lady will be cast in the mould of Prof Dora Akinwuli of NAFDAC and other Amazoniansrather than Madam Ette of NASS and her cohorts. Hope her confirmation hearingin Senatewill be worth the airtime on AIT. President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua on Thursday sent the name of a retired Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), Farida Waziri, to the Senate for confirmation as Chairman of...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
A group known as National Support for Yar'Adua - Jonathan Presidency (NSYJP) has lambasted the former Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, for allegedly taking illegal actions while in office.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
President Umaru Musa Yar'adua has sent a new petroleum industry bill that seeks to transform the basic provisions of the national oil and gas policy into law to the National Assembly.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
... review. Briefing State House Correspondents after the four-hour meeting chaired by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, the Minister of State for Information and Communications, Ibrahim Nakande, said the Council was keen on making the APRM a project for every Nigerian. Nakande in company of the Minister of Planning, Senator Sanusi Daggash and the Minister of State for Agriculture and Water Resources,...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, has ordered immediate commencement of execution of the first phase of multi-billion Naira Zauro Polder Irrigation Project in Kebbi State, as part of long time solution to the current global food crisis.
