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President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his government took loans from China because the Asian country was willing to help Nigeria’s infrastructure.
Buhari said this on Wednesday during an interview with Channels Television while defending his government’s decision to source loans from China.

According to him, anybody that is prepared to come and help Nigeria’s infrastructure to do the roads, rail and power will be welcomed.

Recall that according to data from the Debt Management Office, Nigeria has borrowed $2.02 billion as loans from China from 2015 and the nation’s debt portfolio from China has risen to $3.40bn as of March 31, 2021.

https://trendyblog.com.ng/buhari-nigeria-took-chinese-loans-because-they-want-to-help-with-infrastructure/

The Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād, has claimed that its fighters killed 10 Nigerian soldiers in Borno State.
According to ISWAP in a post on Wednesday, the soldiers were killed when an explosives-laden vehicle rammed into a military post in Marte, located near the shores of Lake Chad, Borno State.

SaharaReporters gathered that the insurgents had on Tuesday engaged the Nigerian troops at the military post in the community in a gun battle.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described as a waste of time, the appointment of Dr. Doyin Salami by President Muhammadu Buhari, to be Chief Economic Adviser.
According to the PDP, Salami is about to be used as a scapegoat for “a disastrous administration” that barely has a year left.

For the opposition party, the economist is about to be used as the sacrificial lamb for the “abysmal failures of the All Progressives Congress (APC) government

https://trendyblog.com.ng/buhari-apc-using-salami-as-scapegoat-for-failure-pdp/

President Muhammadu Buhari has restated his administration’s commitment to bringing back cattle grazing routes as a way of resolving clashes between herders and farmers.

Mr Buhari said this in an interview with Channels Television aired on Wednesday.

https://trendyblog.com.ng/buhari-insists-on-cattle-grazing-routes-to-resolve-herders-farmers-clashes/