Tag: Vice President Yemi Osinbajo

$3tr needed to bridge infrastructural deficit in Nigeria – Osinbajo

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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said three trillion dollars is needed to bridge the infrastructural deficit in Nigeria over the next 30 years. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja, quoted the Vice President as saying these while featuring at a webinar organised by the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE).  He said that adopting new models of investments for infrastructural development in the country was imperative as reliance on public expenditure alone was no longer sufficient to meet the needs. The Forum was convened to…

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Nigerians to pay N4, 000 monthly for solar system – Presidency

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The estimated 25 million Nigerians that will benefit from the Federal Government’s Solar Home Systems expected to commence this week will be expected to pay about N4, 000 monthly, the Presidency has said. The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice-President on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, disclosed this in a statement. Akande, in the statement, titled: “25m Nigerians to own 5m solar systems at N4, 000 monthly”, was giving further insight into earlier reports that the Federal Government will from next week commence the process of installation of five million…

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Tenure extension: Buhari, Osinbajo supporters protest at APC

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Supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday stormed the National Secretariat of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja, to demand the extension of the tenure of the Gov. Mai Mala Buni-led APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee. Under the platform of Buhari/Osinbajo Dynamic Support Group, the group took their  solidarity walk to the secretariat bearing placards with various inscriptions in support of the Caretaker Committee. Some of the inscriptions on the placards read: “Mai Mala-led Committee, best choice to reposition the party’, ‘Support the current…

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