{"id":255136,"date":"2016-10-05T13:49:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T13:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=255136"},"modified":"2016-10-05T13:49:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T13:49:51","slug":"nigeria-to-sell-two-presidential-jets-to-cut-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/10\/nigeria-to-sell-two-presidential-jets-to-cut-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria to sell two presidential jets ‘to cut waste’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Nigeria is selling two of its 10 presidential jets in a bid to “cut down on waste”, President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesman has said.<\/p>\n
Adverts for the Falcon 7X executive jet and Hawker 4000 are to appear in newspapers, Garba Shehu said.<\/p>\n
Some of the other presidential aircraft are be handed to the Nigerian air force to boost its operations, he said.<\/p>\n
The country is one of Africa’s leading economies but it is now suffering from its worst economic crisis in years.<\/p>\n