“As I speak to you, our country produces by itself, half of our current needs and will be completely self-sufficient within 18 months,” he said in his address on the state of the nation.
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A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria who visited Seme on Friday, reports that human and vehicular movement across the border post have resumed after 16 months of closure.
A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria, who visited Seme on Thursday evening, reports that human and vehicular movement across the border post was restricted as the frontier remained under lock.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the result had almost dimmed any chance of the team qualifying for the semi-finals, after they drew their first match with Cote d’Voire.
Ousmane Traore’s stoppage-time strike earned the Baby Elephants a share of the spoils in Port Novo, Benin Republic.
The competition, which holds December 5 to 20, 2020, will also serve as the qualifying tournament for the 2021 U20 Africa Cup of Nations that will be staged in Mauritania.
The spokesman of the Ogun State Police Command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this in a statement on Monday.
He further stated that when he entered Nigeria, his head was filled with ideas of different ways of becoming rich.
The News Agency of Nigeria gathered that the 13 returnees landed in Benin Republic by Air France on June 10 and came into Nigeria through Seme land border around 8am on Thursday.
With the latest returnees, the number of Nigerians from neighbouring countries that arrived through Seme border is now 153
The Ogun State Government has urged residents of the state to remain calm following the reported death of a returnee from Cotonou, Benin Republic, suspected to be a COVID-19 patient in Abeokuta on Tuesday.
A News Agency of Nigeria correspondent who visited Seme border reports that Benin Republic had closed the departure and arrival gates as early as 6am on Saturday
Hundreds of passengers were stranded in Seme on Saturday as Benin Republic closed its border over the global coronavirus pandemic.
An Officer in the Nigerian Army, Major Akeem Oseni, fleeing from serving a 10-year jail term imposed on him for the death of a Lance Corporal, Benjamin Collins, has been arrested in Benin Republic.
The Federal Government has accused the Republic of Benin of being recalcitrant in its importation of prohibited goods for ultimate dumping in to Nigeria’s market in spite the partial border closure order.
The delegation of the Senior Men National Team of Benin Republic, known as Squirrels, will land in Uyo, capital of Akwa Ibom State, on Tuesday ahead of Wednesday’s 2021 AFCON qualifying duel with the Super Eagles.
Stoke City midfielder Oghenekaro Etebo’s return to the Super Eagles line up may take a little longer, if reports from England is anything to go by.
Oguntuase debunked the rumours in a statement made available to News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday.
The suspects: Michael Sosa (27); Nelson Benson (24); Idowu Dauda (30); Owolabi Shobayo, aka Daju pa (29); and Biliaminu Abu, aka Gengen (43), were all arrested in Ijoko and Otta, Ogun State last week for hijacking and selling a Taxify car in February 2019.
Three-time African champions, the Super Eagles, have been paired with Benin Republic, Sierra Leone and Lesotho in Group L of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.