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Vanguard News University of Ibadan gets N190.5m for research equipment On As FG beefs security in Unity Schools By Johnbosco Agbakwuru – Abuja The Federal Executive Council, FEC on Wednesday approved the sum of N190.5 million for the purchase of a microscope by the University of Ibadan, Oyo State. Minister of State for Education, Hon. Emeka Nwajiuba disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the weekly FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, Abuja. Nwajiuba said it has become necessary to purchase such ...

Priorities. these are real life choices, not monopoly money. this is money that was assigned to other things that the president will take for the border wall. so one of the things it was assigned for is military housing. as you know there's been reporting lately about the horrible squalid conditions that our servicemen and women are living in in military housing. are you comfortable taking part of the $8 billion from them to build the border wall? >> well, the first two and a half billion dollars comes out of dod counterdrug and this is a counterdrug issue. what we allocated plus the counterdr...

Private contracted. where we need to make sure when veterans are living or military members are living in houses with mold and bad conditions we need to hold those private companies accountable that we give what's called basic allowance for housing to those companies to keep the soldiers -- >> just so i understand, to be clear, you are saying no money will come out of military construction or military housing for the border wall? you're sure? >> when it comes to military construction, there is any number of things that involves. as the administration, if they get to that pot of money pri prior...

>> hey, greta. >> what do you say. >> it's ludicrous. this has been going on in afghanistan for a while. going on in iraq during the reconstruction there. and this frankly happens here in the united states. government is unable, sometimes, to explain where money was spent. there is so much waste that goes into things. and, any of your viewers that have been in the military know the. there is always a story about a base that gets shut down. right before they shut it down they build a new front gate or new command post or something in it. for some reason and in 30 years or longer, we have not be...

>> hey, greta. >> what do you say. >> it's ludicrous. this has been going on in afghanistan for a while. going on in iraq during the reconstruction there. and this frankly happens here in the united states. government is unable, sometimes, to explain where money was spent. there is so much waste that goes into things. and, any of your viewers that have been in the military know the. there is always a story about a base that gets shut down. right before they shut it down they build a new front gate or new command post or something in it. for some reason and in 30 years or longer, we have not be...