The relationship between Nigeria and Saudi Arabia is a mutually
beneficial one, which should grow stronger in the years to come,
President Muhammadu Buhari has said.Receiving the outgoing
Ambassador of the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, Fahad Bin Abdullah
Sefyan, in a farewell audience at State House, Abuja, Thursday, the
President observed that the relationship between the countries was
strong, adding that apart from visiting Mecca and Medina for religious
reasons, a lot of Nigerians are in Saudi Arabian universities.Noting
that the last farming season was quite good, and the Nigerian economy
was gradually reviving, President Buhari said the two countries would
have more areas to collaborate in future."I quite appreciate the relationship between the two countries," the President stressed.Ambassador
Sefyan, who spent 20 months on tour of duty, said he loved it in
Nigeria, and would have wanted to stay for longer, if not that he was
now due for retirement.He commended President Buhari's visit to
Saudi Arabia in February, last year, urging that there should be
reciprocal visits between the leaders of both countries.On the security situation in Nigeria, the outgoing Ambassador told the President:"I think you are doing very well, Your Excellency. We know what you have done with Boko Haram, and we applaud you".
A forty-year-old man, Isiya Inusa, on Thursday, confessed that he killed an okada rider because of his inability to pay the N100 fare. Isiya, who spoke in Hausa at the headquarters of Katsina State Police Command where he was paraded, said he attacked the rider along Kankara-Kabuki Road, in Katsina. He said, “Yes, I slaughtered him with my knife. I asked him to take me to Kabuki village from Kankara. He demanded N100 as fare. I did not tell him I did not have that money on me. “On the way, I brought out my knife and slaughtered him. The police later arrested me while riding on his (the victim) motorcycle.” Police sources gave the name of the victim as Al -Hasan Usani, aged 43. It was further learnt that Isiya actually tricked Al-Hasan into taking him to Kabuki village with a view to snatching the motorcycle.
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