₦airaland Forum

Abugab:
We

we for what?

The Presidency has dismissed claims in some quarters that President Muhammadu Buhari spent a total of N2.2billion during his four-day state visit to the United States of America.

In a statement issued by Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media & Publicity said: “Our attention has been drawn to an editorial published in the Nigerian Pilot of August 2, 2015 and an earlier report in which the total cost of President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent trip to the US was estimated at N2.2 billion.

“It is very sad that in this age of free-flowing information and in this era of ‘CHANGE’, a media organisation would make itself available as a vehicle to peddle a lie of such low and ignominious quality.

“Contrary to the newspaper’s assertions, the total cost of the trip to the Nigerian taxpayer was at the most minimal, in line with the policy of this administration to cut waste and extravagance.

“In point of fact, the total amount expended on the trip by the Office of the President amounted to nothing near ten per cent of the speculated figure.

“Owing to the free accommodation provided by the host government, all the personal staff who accompanied the President on the trip received reduced allowances.

“His son, Yusuf, received neither allowances nor estacode. The five Governors on the trip each paid his own way. Permanent Secretaries who traveled on the delegation did so in accordance with extant rules and none of them exceeded their estacode entitlements.

The statement noted that: “Apart from the Nigerian Pilot’s mischievous mathematics, it is shortsighted and misleading of the newspaper to have claimed that President Buhari’s trip to the US achieved nothing.

“Nigerian-US relations had suffered severely over the past few years. That relationship has now been reset. The benefits of this symbiotic relationship will become more and more evident as the Buhari administration continues to tackle the challenges of corruption, security and the economy.

“Some of the more immediate benefits of the President’s trip to the US include: the proposed $2.1 billion fund from the World Bank for the re-development of the northeast battered by Boko Haram; $5 billion from US investors in Nigeria’s agriculture sector; $1.5 billion investment in the Nigerian health sector; and another $5 billion investment from the US in our country’s power sector.

Shehu stated that: “Also, as things stand at the moment, the embargo on the sale of weapons sales to Nigeria is in the process of being removed.

“The trip to the US by President Buhari was definitely very successful and beneficial to Nigeria. Only those rabidly determined to find faults unnecessarily will cook up falsehood in a futile effort to rake up murk where none exists,” Shehu said.

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/08/05/buhari-did-not-spend-n2-2bn-on-trip-to-usa-presidency/

temitemi1:
PDP Is On The Rise Again...

PDP is now Ibo party, oya go change your name to okechukwu or Okafor

Good one

na big sellotape Baba use

President by the people and of the people and for the people.
Mr President riding Nigeria back to it rightful destination.

Good one

Hope yeebos are represented?

INTROVERT:
I'm more into hard commodities involving the extractive industries although soft commodities play a large part in the future markets.

thought u never respond

Jaraworldsms:
very sad news for saraki

Gaskiya

madridguy:
SARAKI MUST GO

Walahi

ladyF:
Patience is key!

GBAM!!!

Genevieve way D'banj don scatter her pussi finish, come dump her

OP u wicked oooo

ayokellany:
Waiting to hear from the children from the tribe of hate to tell who the President Buhari really is btw the lunatic that can not clean up his own backyard and their acclaim bigoted foreigner cleaning up their foreign land within 3 month as president while their native drunkaed couldn't deem it fit in 6 years as president simply because of inherited hate which is already destroying their unborn generation.

well said, very well said bro and in addtion this is a very bad news to the Biafra movement as the south south people as a whole are benefiting more from Mr President than the daftt one from Otueke.

Captain6:
Where is Barcanista, the leader of the wailers association nairaland chapter. WANC

I hear say him and mogidi dey queue for PDP Secretariat to collect their monthly #5000 payment.

I thought they said Boko Haram are christians
Anyway kudos to CJTV

Team iphone 6 , we are still the best

Respect Sir

Exactly! Boko Haram use same weapons as them

PDP cheap propaganda, all cooked up stories and lies

Okay, we don hear

Abeg Move these to jokes section

SeverusSnape:
Same here, I've told you what you are. Have a nice day ahead boy.

...Mumu ode oloriburuku!

SeverusSnape:
Zombie, do you think I'm like you who depends on MTN for free data bonus?...I do my Airtel monthly subscription. Anyway, that doesn't stop you from being a Brainless wanking zombie.

dey deceive yourself, Have told u exactly who you are....MuMu!

Old news

It Official! PDP are Broke

SeverusSnape:
Buhari looks malnourished. Please they should advice him to start taking balanced diet. All those Fura de nono, Kunu and kolanut (gworo) won't help him.


Samuel Lamido looks regal and dapper.

Broke man way never see three square meal chop in a day, just because of 15MB way Mtn dash u as u recharge #100 card you no let us they hear word for Nairaland again. Mumu

new2020:
Into two...North and SW one side since 80% of Yorubas are Muslims, and SS and SE on the other. NC will have to pick sides.

alwayz hanging on south south, them go shock una.