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    Tuesday, November 1, 2016

    Nigeria Senate rejects President Muhammadu Buhari's request to borrow $30 billion

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    Nigeria Senate has rejected President Muhammadu  Buhari's request to borrow $30 billion.

    The president, last Tuesday, forwarded a request to the National Assembly to approve external borrowing plan of $29.960 billion to execute key infrastructural projects across the country between 2016 and 2018.

    He made the requests in two separate letters to the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara.

    Mr. Buhari said the external loan, the biggest in Nigeria’s history, will fund targeted projects cutting across all sectors with special emphasis on infrastructure, agriculture, health, education, water supply, growth and employment generation.

    Other sectors, he said, included poverty reduction through social safety net programmes and governance and financial management reforms, among others.

    According to him, the cost of the projects and programmes under the borrowing (rolling) plan is $29.960 billion.

    This is made up of proposed projects and programmes loan of $11.274 billion, special national infrastructure projects $10.686 billion, Euro bonds of $4.5 billion and Federal Government budget support of $3.5 billion.

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