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Monday, 16 November 2015

Nigeria Benefits $11.6 billion From Buhari’s US Trip – Defence Minister

The trip of President Muhammadu Buhari to the United States recently has brought financial of ofabout $11.6 billion to the country aside from other promisery notes from the G8 and the United Nations.

This disclosure was made yesterday by the Minister of Defence, Brigadier General Muhammad Mansur Dan-Ali while declaring open the Defence Advisers/Attaches Annual Conference 2015 where he was optimistic ofan end to the menace of Boko Haram terrorism.

“…Some of the more immediate benefits of the President’s trip to the US include: the proposed USD2.1 billion fund from the World Bank for the redevelopment of the Boko Haram battered northeast; USD 5 billion from the US investors in Nigeria’s agricultural sector; USD 1.5 billion investment from the US in our country’s power sector.”

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