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PROTOCOLS It gives me great pleasure to welcome members of the International Press Institute (IPI) to Nigeria. It is the first time in the 68 years history of the media’s premier platform for press freedom that editors, media executives and leading journalists would gather in this country for its World Congress and General Assembly. Nigeria […]

Please find attached here the breakdown of the 2018 approved budget as presented today by the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma.

*Benefits of FG’s Social Investment Programmes for all Nigerians, VP adds “The President’s view is that we must not play politics with the health and welfare and prosperity of our people. No politicking. That is why despite the fact that this is not an APC State, all of these benefits have been given to these […]

Protocols I would like to thank the leadership of the National Assembly, particularly the Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, as well as all the Distinguished Senators and Honourable Members, for passing the 2018 Appropriation Bill, after seven months. When I submitted the 2018 Budget proposals to the National Assembly on […]

*Earlier in Abuja, VP receives German business delegation *Nigeria an investor’s delight, says delegation Thousands of cheering supporters welcomed Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, today to Ekiti State where he attended, as the special guest of honour, the flag-off of the Governorship campaign of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, and erstwhile Minister of Mines […]

President Muhammadu Buhari Friday in Abuja called on all Nigerians to work towards salvaging the nation from the shackles of past wrongs by sharing in the collective vision for a greater Nigeria and contributing individually to realise the goal. President Buhari, who received FCT residents at the Presidential Villa for the Eid-al-fitr celebration, urged all […]

Protocol It is my pleasure to welcome Your Excellencies, members of the Diplomatic Corp to this year’s Iftar as we mark this Holy Ramadan. As Your Excellencies are aware, the month of Ramadan is a month which brings the spirit of not only closeness with our creator, but it is also a period of reflection […]

Today, I am very happy to be present and to preside over the Commemoration and Investiture, marking the formal official Federal Government recognition of June 12 as National Democracy Day. The decision and this event is not meant to be and is not an attempt to open old wounds but to put right a national […]

Nigeria’s strongest selling point remains an “intellectually aggressive and economically ambitious’’ populace that always seeks self-improvement and self-actualization in any part of the world, President Muhammadu Buhari said Monday in Rabat, Morocco. In an audience with the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Morocco, Saadeddine Othmani, at the Royal Guest Palace, President Buhari said Nigeria’s […]

At the invitation of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, His Excellency Muhammadu Buhari, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, undertook the first visit by a Nigerian Head of State to the Kingdom of Morocco, on 10 and 11 June 2018. The visit reinforces the positive bilateral relationship between Morocco and Nigeria since the Royal […]

The Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Kingdom of Morocco on Monday in Rabat, Morocco, signed three agreements, which includes a regional gas pipeline that will see Nigeria providing gas to countries in West Africa sub-region that extend to Morocco and Europe. The signing of the agreements, witnessed by President Muhammadu Buhari and King of […]

Background In 2011 the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) decided to convert a portion of its external reserves into the Chinese currency, Renminbi (RMB). At that time Nigeria was one of the first countries in the world to do this. This policy decision was appropriate because: • The RMB was becoming more of an international […]