- Professor Yemi Osinbajo met with some APC governors
- The vice president is scheduled to meet with with all state governors
- Details of the meeting have not been released
Vice president, Professor Yemi Osinbajo met with some All Progressives Congress (APC) governors behind closed doors on Wednesday, December 13.
The Punch reports that the meeting was held in the evening at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
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The vice president’s meeting precedes another scheduled meeting with members of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum which will take place at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa.
Osinbajo will still meet with the governors on the platform of the National Economic Council.
Details of the discussion of the meeting has not yet been revealed.
Meanwhile, the minister of state for petroleum resources Ibe Kachikwu said the Federal Executive Council on Wednesday, December 13, approved the award of contract of over $2.7 billion to three consortiums that will complete the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano gas pipeline.
Daily Trust reports that Kachikwu said the contract would enhance movement of gas from the southern corridor to the north increase power generation and enable utilization of gas up into the hinterlands.
According to him, "One of the things we have suffered is the reaping of gas. We presently have trapped power, trapped gas all in the southern corridors that is going nowhere because of lack of infrastructure. So, that has now been awarded.
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Thursday, 14 December 2017