President @MBuhari Monday presided over the opening day of a Presidential Retreat for Ministers-designate and senior Government officials. #CabinetRetreatNG
The Retreat follows the screening and confirmation of the Ministers-designate by the National Assembly, and holds ahead of their swearing-in by the President on Wednesday, August 21, 2019, at the State House. #CabinetRetreatNG
In the first technical presentation of the Retreat, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo delivered an overview of the work of the Policies, Programmes and Projects Audit Committee (PPPAC), established by President Buhari in March 2019 ...
... and chaired by the Vice President, with a mandate to review the performance in the first term and outline a Roadmap for the new Administration. #CabinetRetreatNG
This was followed by presentations on National Security, Economic Development and Anti-Corruption Agenda, after which participants engaged in eleven Breakout sessions to deliberate on issues across the priority policy areas of the Administration. #CabinetRetreatNG
These sessions covered Security; Macroeconomic Stability; Agriculture and Food Security; Energy Security in petroleum products and electricity; Transportation and Critical Infrastructure; ...
... Industrialisation and SME Development; Human Capital Development; Social Inclusion; Anti-Corruption; and Housing Financing and Consumer Credit. #CabinetRetreatNG
Declaring the Retreat open, President @MBuhari charged the incoming Ministers to ensure that all hands were on deck to realise the Administration’s vision of laying the grounds for the lifting of 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in ten years. #CabinetRetreatNG
The President also asked them to take seriously their responsibility to develop and implement policies, programmes and projects, and harped on the importance of working as a team and communicating amongst themselves and with the Nigerian people. #CabinetRetreatNG
The two-day Presidential Retreat ends on Tuesday. // #CabinetRetreatNG
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Vice President @ProfOsinbajo has accepted the offer of The Commonwealth to lead the Commonwealth Observer Group (COG) constituted by its Secretary-General, the Rt. Hon @PScotlandCSG to observe the general elections in Sierra Leone.
The Secretary-General constituted the observer group, a team of distinguished experts upon the invitation from the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone for next month's polls in the West African nation.
Following through on his administration’s determination to upgrade and expand the nation’s stock of infrastructure, President @MBuhari will (tomorrow) Tuesday, commission seven legacy projects completed by the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing @FMWHNIG across the country.
Comprising three major Bridges, three Federal Secretariats and a Road, the historic event will be headlined by the Second Niger Bridge which was conceptualized in 2005.
In 2014, there was an attempt to begin the project through Public Private Partnership (PPP) but this was not… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT @MBuhari AT THE OFFICIAL COMMISSIONING OF THE KASHIMBILLA MULTIPURPOSE DAM, 40MW HYDROPOWER STATION AND ASSOCIATED TRANSMISSION LINE AND DISTRIBUTION SUBSTATIONS (PHASE I), THURSDAY, 18TH MAY, 2023
I am delighted to be commissioning, today, the Kashimbila Multipurpose Dam, 40MW Hydropower Station and Associated 132KV Switchyard, Transmission Line and Distribution Substation (Phase I) Project.
The Kashimbila Multipurpose Dam in Taraba State, with storage capacity of 500million cubic metres, was conceived principally to checkmate the threat of the imminent collapse of the structurally weak and poisonous Lake Nyos…
The Kashimbila Dam was built by the Federal Ministry of Water Resources @FMWRNigeria, and the accompanying Power Plant and Transmission Line by the Federal Ministry of Power. The contract for the project was originally awarded in 2007, with a completion period of 36 months.
Chairman, Takum Traditional Council, Ruler, HRH Ephraim Bala Ashumanu: “We thank @NigeriaGov for this Buffer Dam, which has given birth to electricity & water supply. We thank the FGN for all they have done. We want the Project to give employment to the youth of the communities.”
As a demonstration of his commitment to advancing healthcare management in the country, President @MBuhari will on Friday, May 19, inaugurate the state-of-the-art Presidential/VIP Wing of State House Medical Centre, Abuja.
This legacy project, situated within the premises of the Presidential Villa, had its ground-breaking ceremony conducted by the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof Ibrahim Gambari, on November 1, 2021.
Vice President @ProfOsinbajo today launched a $600 million programme for young Nigerians in the technology and creative sectors with a call on African governments and the private sector to do more to support the growth of innovation in the continent. #iDICENigeria#AsoVillaToday
The Vice President spoke at the presidential launch of the Investment in Digital and Creative Enterprises (i-DICE) Programme, held at the State House Banquet Hall, Abuja.