ANOTHER Justice of the Supreme Court yesterday accused Transportation Minister Rotimi Amaechi and Science Minister Ogbonnaiya Onu of being the architect of his travails. Justice Sylvester Ngwuta, who was arrested by Department of State Services (DSS) operatives for alleged corruption, blamed it all on his refusal to cooperate with the duo, who he said had […]
Read More A Justice of the Supreme Court, Inyang Okoro, who is among the seven judges arrested by the operatives of the Department of State Services between October 7 and 8, has accused the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, as the one who instigated his ordeal. He said in his four-page letter dated October 17, 2016 […]
Read More The Federal Government and China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC) have signed an agreement to commence work on Lagos to Calabar coastal rail project. According to The Nation, The project, which was initially awarded during former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration at the rate of $11.917billion, has been renegotiated to $11.117 billion following the drop in […]
Read More The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, says he divulged a letter which a former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor and now Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi, wrote to former President Goodluck Jonathan on oil revenue theft in order to check corruption. Amaechi said the claim that he ‘clandestinely’ leaked the letter was not true. […]
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Fani-Kayode, in an article on Friday, alleged that former governors Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State and his Rivers State counterpart, Rotimi Amaechi, funded President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign. Fani-Kayode, who is a former Minister of Aviation, said this in an article titled, ‘The Money Transfers and the Truth about the Presidential Campaign Funds’, which he wrote […]
Read More FEDERAL Government expects the maritime sector to contribute at least one quarter, or 25 per cent of the total funding of the national budget next year. The Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi who spoke yesterday in Lagos, said the government has set N500billion revenue target for agencies in the maritime sector to be able to achieve […]
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MINISTER of Transport, Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has asked Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, to provide proof that he diverted $150 million dollars belonging to the state to fund the All Progressives Congress, (APC) while he was governor of the state. Wike who made the allegation at a thanksgiving service over his victory at […]
Read More MINISTER for Transportation, Mr. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, yesterday commended Governor Rauf Aregbesola on the construction of the MKO Abiola International Airport in Ido-Osun, Osun State. The minister who was on the tour of Federal Government projects in the state, said: “The Federal Government decided to embark on inspection of its projects across the country so […]
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MEMBERS of the adhoc committee of the House of Representatives on failed rail contracts have summoned the Minister of Transport, Mr Rotimi Amaechi; Managing Director of Nigeria Railway Corporation, NRC, Seyi Sijuwade; former Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr Mohammed Bello Haliru; and former Minister of Transport, Idris Umar, to explain their roles in […]
Read More The Rivers State government has said that transport minister, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has to tell the people of the state how he spent the N3 trillion that accrued to the state for eight years that he served as Governor. The commissioner for information, Dr. Austin Tam-George, who stated this at a briefing on the Supreme […]
Read More THE Rivers State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bro Felix Obuah, has invited the Minister of Transport, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Dakuku Peterside, to the state to witness the development strides of Governor Nyesom Wike. Obuah said that only a facility tour of […]
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NOBEL laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has dared anti-corruption agencies in the country to probe him over an allegation by the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, that N82m was spent to host him by former governor Rotimi Amaechi. Soyinka’s reaction came on the heels of an allegation by the Rivers State Government, which said on Wednesday […]
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