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The loan, which would cover the construction of rural earth dams, irrigation as well as machinery and infrastructure has a 20-year repayment term with five years moratorium.

Launches economic recovery plan today

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to complete the processes that will enable 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) benefit from a support loan of $4.5 billion to be facilitated by the People’s Bank of China in cooperation with the Chinese government.

The loan, which would cover the construction of rural earth dams, irrigation as well as machinery and infrastructure has a 20-year repayment term with five years moratorium.
Governor of Zamfara State, Abdullaziz Yari, who gave the indication in Abuja yesterday said the facility is a fallout of President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to China last year where he engaged the government which showed willingness to support Nigeria.

Yari who fielded questions from State House Correspondents after a meeting with President Buhari yesterday, said Nigeria has already negotiated to drop the initial counterpart funding for the loan, which was 25 per cent to 10 per cent.

The governor explained that President Buhari has given the government’s commitment and the need to engage the ministers of finance, budget and national planning and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to work out the technical details for the Ministry of Agriculture to make a presentation to the Federal Executive Council (FEC) and to the National Assembly for final approval.

Meanwhile, President Buhari, will today in Abuja formally launch the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) 2017-2020. The Presidency said the decision is in furtherance of the administration’s drive to “sustain and build on the successes so far recorded in tackling corruption, improving security and re-revamping the economy.”

Young03:
u should have made ur comments without quoting me

well it shows the world has spoiled

tell the op wat to do. Remeber ur building go collapse for ur head

Young03:
What stops u from taking her to ur house, give her food n water then tomorrow u continue ur search on his relatives

pls dont quote me if u know say ur house no go collapse on ur head

yomalex:
Sir I have queried and sent details to your email

Ishilove:
Now I'm salivating. I was doing that stuff that's why I didn't pick

Ishilove:
Is tonight okay? You owe me scary gist

Ishilove:
I don't see how BBNaija has impacted positively in the lives of the Nigerian youths. I am at a loss to understand exactly what the show stands for and it's mission statement, so until I am convinced the show is for a good cause, I will be keeping my 100 naira sms in my phone

Ishilove:
Fvcked up, barely comprehensible English has been made 'cool' by all these so-called celebs

yomalex:
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yomalex:
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WorldRichest:
Similar statements from nonentities from the erosion ravaged region made Awolowo and Obasanjo to use over three million stubborn goats for pepper soup between 1967 and 1970.

yomalex:
We have not received details of your complaint

comos:
that is because you can't compete with them because they are in majority,

biko, come to Lagos and see for yourself, then you will know that I am telling you the truth.

BLACKdagger:
Unfortunately i couldnt read all dat.. becox it was oozing of biasness.

So i asked u this... ife incident and enugu incident which one happend first and who mocked the other first.?

AS LONG AS U CANT SPEAK THE TRUTH WITHOUT BIASED MIND.. i wont u serious!.

signz:
I don't understand.

I'm Igbo

I stay in Lagos.

Apart from Lagos Tax and levy system, me and my kinsmen have not been attacked by Yorubas because we're Igbos.

Infact i can't remember the last time there was fight between Yorubas and Igbos in any Yoruba state.

But in the North, even historians have lost count

BLACKdagger:
Hmmm ur last paragraph also shows how hypocritical and biased u are....
U are quick to use dat as a refrence but u didnt say suck wen they mocked igbos dat fulani heardsmen killed people in enugu without dem doing anything.
But when they killied 2women in owerri igbos killed them back.. it was the samr yorubas that came here to say ibos arr violent.

And as for ur other comments on u speaking from ur own experience and im speaking from mine experince so u can tell me im lying except u wana be unreasonable...
BRCOX I HAVE EXPERIENCED WHERE YORURA PARENTS TELL THEIR KIDS NOT TO GREET OTHRS EXPECIALLY IGBOS.

even where im living currently a small yoruba gal dat i gave years ahead in age that used to greet me with respect... suddlenly stopped greeting me wen she sees me... and u wont tell me nobody told her to do so.
STOP BEING BIASED

comos:
they even tell their children not to greet an Igbo man (non-yoruba) in the morning

Members of Buhari Support Organisation (BSO), Enugu State chapter has said that unless Nigerian citizens come together to check the excesses of the country’s Senate as presently constituted, it would end up shutting down President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-graft war, and ultimately the nation’s fledgling democracy.

The group explained that it was in effort to mobilize citizens for active participation that it opened an online platform where compatriots should send their names and contact details, including phone numbers to ensure mass action against the Senate.

In a statement signed by its publicity secretary, Mr. Eze Chibueze, Enugu BSO said it was also challenged to act by the paradoxical remarks of the deputy president of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, at the 28th Enugu International Trade Fair at the weekend.

The group said it has resolved to resist any attempt to truncate Buhari’s anti-corruption war, which has been raised to a higher scale to the commendation of international transparency agencies, the United States of America, United Kingdom and prominent Africans, including former Ghanaian President, Flt. Lt. Jerry Rawlings.
They said they was saddened by Ekweremadu’s lamentation that Small and Medium Enterprises potentials are grossly underutilized and underdeveloped, stifled by lack of access to market and multiple taxation, stressing that the statement contradicts the position of the Senate during the confirmation hearing on the acting chairman of EFCC, Ibrahim Magu.

“We are therefore outraged at the Senate in one breadth admitting that official corruption is the bane of our economic prosperity and collective development and on the other breadth is viciously waging unpatriotic offensive against President Buhari’s war against pervasive corruption in our land. Who kills his war commander,” the group declared.

The Buhari supporters wondered why the “Senate could not trust the sound judgment of the nation’s Commander-in-Chief, who after perusing the Department of State Security (DSS)’s report referred to him in December 2016, dismissed it and sent back Ibrahim Magu’s name for the second time for confirmation? To us, it is corruption fighting back.”

BSO added: “We are in league with majority of patriotic Nigerians and foreign friends of our dear country who believe that Ibrahim Magu is doing a fantastic job; which in the first place made Mr. President to nominate him. Accordingly we call on Mr. President not to succumb to arrant blackmail and propaganda being mounted by looters.

“It’s our considered view that Magu’s recent exposure of the Paris Fund scam, in which the Senate President and some governors were allegedly fingered, the petition against the deputy Senate president on his table and sundry corruption charges against high number of senators that incensed the Senators against Magu.”

The group said it is the height of cruelty for any sane Nigerian to tamper with the Paris Club refund funds, which was recovered since 2005 and no president thought it wise to return the funds to the people since, and up till 2017 when our President Buhari directed that the funds be returned to the states for salary and pension arrears.

“We are therefore appalled that the name of prominent Senators have featured again in their custom to circumvent the funds meant for masses,” the organization remarked, stressing that in the sordid cross-road Nigerians have found themselves, BSO has no other option than “to mobilise patriotic Nigerians for a two million march to the National Assembly to shut down the Senate and drum support for the anti-corruption of war of President Buhari.”

alizma:
use your brain. attend entrepreneurship class, laye laye, you wont. do you think they shared those polo for free? the guy is already making more money in addition to the 25m and you are there thinking otherwise.

semasir:
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rheether:
Wait and watch the power of the street.

kingzizzy:
Whenever I hear 'we south/south', I already know whatever will follow after that will be fraudulent.

The term South/South is not recognised in Nigerian law same as South East. South South is just geopolitical zone, a geopolitical zone is just a group of people who are most likely to vote in a similar way.

A geopolitical zone is not a people. There are over 40 minority tribes in the south of Nigeria , I am yet to see one single authentic organisation that speaks for them all. All we see is one organisation or the other with ridiculous sounding names that always ends with 'Niger Delta' sitting anywhere from Yenagoa to Eket and claiming to be the mouthpiece of all the minorities and never managing to achieve anything.

On the issue of Biafra, not everyone will like the idea. Not every ethnic group will want to be part of it, some may even prefare Nigeria. That is why no ethnic group shoup speak for another. If there should be anyone speaking for each ethnic group, it should be their apex social and political organisations.

Finally, these people who like to think that Biafra is an Igbo thing are really funny. The last president of Biafra, General Philip Effiong, was not an Igbo man.

So if Biafra was just about Igbos, how could an Annang/Ibibio man like General Effiong ever become its president?

In a 1996 interview, Effiong reflected on those events:

I have no regrets whatsoever of my involvement in Biafra or the role I played. The war deprived me of my property, dignity, my name. Yet, I saved so many souls on both sides and by this, I mean Biafra and Nigeria. . . .
I felt that I played a role which has kept this country united till today. . . .
At the end of it all when I saw they (Biafran soldiers) could no longer continue and Ojukwu had fled, I did what was ideal after wide consultation . . . [2]
Efiong died 6 November 2003, at the age of 78 less than two weeks before his 79th birthday.

The vision of Biafra is not Igbo, its eventual capital is not likely to be in Igbo land and there is a good chance that when Biafra returns, its next president might not be an Igbo man.

Desammyst:
Dats nice. Though, I neva knew John Cena was dating. Think it's time to settle down, age no longer on his side again

mr1759:
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SS want to also leave don't be deceived

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