The federal government has formally announced that the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, would be closed with effect from 12 a.m.Wednesday, March 8 to April 19, in order for repair works to be carried out on the Airport’s runway.
The federal government has warned former President Goodluck Jonathan not to scuttle on-going effort to negotiate the release of the abducted Chibok girls by unnecessary finger-pointing over his administration's handling of the issue.
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has condemned what he described as “the fake news phenomenon” which according to him poses more threat to Nigeria than even insurgency and militancy.
The BringBackOurGirls, BBOG, a movement that has campaigned for the rescue of the abducted Chibok Secondary School girls by the Boko Haram terrorists, on Tuesday expressed delight at the content of the conversation between President Muhammadu Buhari and President of the United States of America, Donald Trump which indicates a desire for collaborating in the fight against terrorism.
The minister made this known in a statement issued on Sunday, adding that the said amount does not include the $9.2 million in cash allegedly owned by a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, though he said that was also a dividend of the whistle-blower policy.
The federal government says it has received intelligence that a Boko Haram affiliate group, called “Muslim Brotherhood” in Kogi State, is plotting to carry out terror attacks in the country.
