President Muhammadu Buhari is tonight hosting his maiden Presidential Media Chat since assuming office on May 29 this year.
The challenges confronting Nigeria – insecurity, the economy, corruption, dearth of infrastructure – are still largely the same issues the last administration grappled with.
Bellow are the responses of the President to some of the questions posed to him:
#PresidentialMediaChat “The standard of tertiary institutions is really poor, I don’t want students sitting on windows to take lectures”-PMB
#PresidentialMediaChat “We will look into the students already in school to be able to use their @MasterCard Debit/Credit cards abroad” -PMB
#PresidentialMediaChat “We may have to send the young unemployed youth seeking N5k fee to farm to earn the money” – PMB
#PresidentialMediaChat “The federal gov’t will not touch minimum wage”-PMB
#PresidentialMediaChat I was only told of N700million for vehicles for the Presidency & as for the @nassnigeria, I hope they’ve not bought
#PresidentialMediaChat “Unemployed youths to be given crash program as teachers and force them to teach in pry and secondary schools” -PMB
#presidentialmediachat “We have stopped 43 items from being imported including toothpicks” – PMB
#presidentialmediachat “I need to be convinced before I can approve the devaluation of the Naira” -PMB
#presidentialmediachat “@NNPCgroup has 45 accounts, the military Army, Navy, Airforce, Police had 70 accounts until we introduced TSA” -PMB
#presidentialmediachat When I say the war has been technically won, I meant their capacity to carry out conventional attack has weakened-PMB
#presidentialmediachat “I saw some clips of excited youth hitting chests of army generals but we can’t justify the level of casualty”-PMB
#presidentialmediachat I have not taken anyone into my cabinet who is being prosecuted for corruption, consciously I have not” – PMB
