Tag: Amaechi
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Secession agitation: Jonathan’s defeat bigger threat than Biafra – Amaechi
…Says Nigeria can never break up The Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi on Tuesday said the defeat of former President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 Presidential elections by President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, APC, was “a bigger threat than Biafra”. Amaechi said Nigeria would have plunged into another civil war in 2015,…
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South-East not marginalised in rail lines development – Amaechi
The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi on Thursday said that the South-East has not been denied the opportunity of using the rail services, and also not excluded from the 2016-2018 external borrowing plan. Amaechi made this clarification before the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts, while responding to allegation on the outright omission of…
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PDP is for ‘the old school’ – Tonye Princewill explains why he opted for APC
Tonye Princewill, Labour Party gubernatorial candidate in Rivers State during the 2015 general elections has defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC. Princewill had penultimate week formally tendered his resignation from LP, explaining that he did so because he wanted to make more impact in the lives of his people. Confirming his new move in…
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Amaechi rejects Wike’s award, calls it ‘poisoned chalice’
Minister of Transport and Former Governor of Rivers state, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi has rejected an alleged award of honour claimed to be coming from the current Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike, saying any award from Wike is a poisoned chalice. In a statement issued to newsmen on Friday by the Minister’s media office, Mr. Amaechi also…
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‘Again, Governor Wike Goes Mad’ says Amaechi
Former Rivers state Governor and current Minister of Transport, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi has replied an alleged vindictment hauled at him by the current Governor of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike, saying Mr. Wike, has again “gone mad.” The Transport Minister was responding to an alleged Governor Wike’s allegation that he (Amaechi) is a sponsor of cultist…
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$5.9bn China Exim Bank rail loan: Senate summons Amaechi over exclusion of South-East
The Senate on Tuesday summoned the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, to explain why the eastern rail corridor was omitted in current government borrowing plan. The Senate said the minister should appear before its Committee on Foreign and Local Debts to explain details of the loan to be obtained from China Exim Bank. The invitation…
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Amaechi withdrew N53billion from state coffers without due process – Wike
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State on Thursday said the state is incapacitated to carry out some project for the benefit of residents because the immediate past administration under the leadership of former governor, now Minister of Transport, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi withdrew over N53 billion from state coffers without following due process. Wike said this…
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Reps threaten to stop funds allocated to Amaechi’s ministry
Four committees of the House of Representatives on Tuesday jointly expressed dissatisfaction over the implementation of the Federal Ministry of Transportation’s 2016 Budget. They are Committees on Aviation; Land Transport; Maritime Safety and Administration; Ports, Harbours and Waterways. The committees, which visited the ministry’s headquarters in Abuja on oversight function, threatened to give zero allocation…
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‘Stop making unguarded remarks against legislature,’ Senate warns Amaechi
THE Senate described statement by the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi that the refusal of the National Assembly to approve the request of the government for foreign loan that will be used for counterpart funding was frustrating the construction of the Lagos-Ibadan and Ibadan-Ilorin-Minna -Kano rail lines as false, misrepresenting and contradictory. In a statement…
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China’s $1.5b loan for Lagos-Ibadan rail ready – Amaechi
The Federal Government yesterday said it had secured $1.5 billion from the China Exim Bank to begin work on the Lagos-Ibadan rail line project. Minister of Transport Rotimi Amaechi said this when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Land Transport, chaired by Gbenga Ashafa, to give a status report of the 2016 budget and…