The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday accused the Federal Government of shielding the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, from prosecution for alleged corruption. The governor, who disclosed this in a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Media, Kevin Ebiri, said Amaechi, who is his predecessor, has been unable to account for $308
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The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, on Monday blamed the failure of successive governments in Nigeria to jail or severely punish thieves and treasury looters for prevalence of corruption in the country. The minister, who stated this in his address at the 2021 Founders’ Lecture at the University of Port Harcourt, urged Nigerians to stop
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The national leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC has dismissed the purported suspension of Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, Sen. Andrew Uchendu, and Victor Giadom by a fraction led by Hon. Igo Aguma. In a letter by Dare Oketade, Head Legal Services at the APC National Secretariat dated December 23 and addressed to Hon.
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Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has called for cooperation and coordination between APM Terminals and China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC), the Contractor handling the Ebute Metta – Apapa seaports railway extension in order to ensure completion of the project by January, 2021. The minister while inspecting the project over the weekend, said “we have
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Rotimi Amaechi, the minister of transportation, has sided Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola’s statement concerning All Progressives Congress (APC) to respect zoning. The minister of transportation who appeared on a Channels Television programme, was asked if the All Progressives Congress (APC) will consider giving the south-east a chance for the presidency in 2023.
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A faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has frowned at the absence of the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, from Tuesday’s South-South stakeholders’ meeting with the Nigerian Government. In a statement on Wednesday signed by Livingstone Wechie, media adviser to the state APC acting Caretaker Committee chairman, Igo Aguma, the party
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The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi has observed that the investigations of loans taken by the Federal Government could send wrong signal to the lenders.Ameachi made the observation at an investigative hearing organised by the House of Representatives Committee on Treaties, Protocols and Agreements in Abuja. He said that the investigation could cause foreign
Read moreMinister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi has brought to the public how he is afraid of coronavirus (covid-19), which he stated that he is not ready to die. Because of the fear, he takes both his sanitiser and extra mask everywhere he goes to just as a precaution to prevent being infected with the virus and
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The Minister of Transportation said he is making efforts to stay away from politics. Minister of Transportation and Leader of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi has reacted to the crisis rocking his party, APC at the national and state levels. Amaechi, in a statement released by his media office said he
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The Transport Minister, Rotimi Amaechi on Monday said the Lagos state government might face unemployment and uptick in crime following its ban of commercial motorcycles and tricycles in some parts of the State. “Implementation of transport policy is essentially a state affair,” Amaechi said on Channels TV’s Sunrise daily. “But he (Lagos State governor) has
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In Nigeria, the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, on Tuesday, said President Muhammadu Buhari, could inaugurate the Lagos-Ibadan railway in May. The Minister, who said this on a live television programme monitored in Abuja, noted that the Federal Ministry of Transportation had been working hard to see that the project was set for inauguration in
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The Minister of Transport, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, on Friday, ordered stoppage of work at the ongoing Omi-Adio Railway Station, a project under the Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge rail line. The minister cited compromise of standards by the contractor as reason for the order. Amaechi gave the directive when he got to the station during his monthly
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Amaechi attacked in Spain
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