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Rotimi Amaechi

6 Mar
A total of 888 candidates failed the final bar examination conducted in November 2023. This is just as 4,412 candidates were successful out of a total of 5,300 who sat for the exam and were yesterday admitted into the Nigerian Bar.
23 Jan
I have just been thinking how on earth a potentially very rich country like Nigeria can be actually very poor in the midst of that wealth. And I ask myself, why is that so? And, I am not able to put my finger on the answer.
5 Jan
China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC), the contractor laying tracks on the Eastern Narrow Railway project, said it has completed tracks laying on the Port Harcourt to Aba section.
6 Nov
Rotimi Amaechi, former minister and governor of Rivers State, at a public lecture on Thursday, October 26, sounded rather melancholic. For a man who has been in government since 1999, first as two-term speaker of Rivers State House of Assembly and later as governor for eight years....
6 Nov
Crash landing of Hawker800 aircraft, at Ibadan Airport last weekend, has opened a new chapter on the prevalence of illegal commercial charter operators by elites, who are rich enough to acquire or lease private jets.
24 Aug 2023
Does the above majority decision satisfy the true meaning of Justice in the real sense of that word?  Has justice being served here? Personally I don’t think so, the choice of the people have been thwarted there using undue technicality. 
5 Jul 2023
Four years after the former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, flagged off the rail movement of cargoes to/from the Kaduna Inland Dry Port, construction of the rail lines has been abandoned.
1 Jun 2023
Rotimi Amaechi, the former minister of transportation, and his wife Judith have recently unveiled a new song as part of their ongoing series of responsorial psalms, with a particular focus on Psalm 104. This release comes shortly after Amaechi's noticeable absence from the inauguration of Bola Tinubu, the former governor of Lagos State, as president…
7 Apr 2023
The Federal Government of Nigeria has resumed activities aimed at unbundling the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) into four components. The committee set up by the former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has returned to deliberations.
21 Mar 2023
Former Vice Chairman, South South, of All Progressives Congress (APC), Prince Hilliard Eta, yesterday, berated former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, over his claim that the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu...

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