Nigeria Senate is seeking the allocation of 20 percent of the country’s annual budget to constituency projects of its members, a new Bill to that effect passed second reading on Wednesday in the Senate. The bill, sponsored by Senator Stella Odua from Anambra State, is making provision to the effect that 20 percent of...
Read MoreNigeria has ordered investigations into the invasion of a federal high court in Abuja last Friday by the operatives of the Department of State Service (DSS), the country’s Attorney-General has revealed. Abubakar Malami spoke after paying a courtesy visit to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho. The DSS had...
Read MoreThe Governor of Imo State Emeka Ihedioha, and his Kano State counterpart, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje won Nigerian Infrastructural Development Awards (NIDA) for 2019. Ihedioha was adjudged the Best Governor in Innovative Infrastructure Solutions while Ganduje took home the Best Infrastructure Governor of the Year (North West) The recognition came at the 2019 NIDA which...
Read MorePresident Muhammadu Buhari has effectively removed Muiz Banire as chairman of the Board of the country’s ‘bad bank’ Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) and replaced him with Edward Lametek Adamu, a deputy governor at the apex bank. In a letter to the Senate on Tuesday, President Buhari asked the Senate to confirm Adamu...
Read MoreThe Nigerian government saved hundreds of millions of naira by centralizing its employee-payment system — laying hundreds of thousands of ghosts to rest in the process. Dubbed the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, or IPPIS, the project has exposed the widespread practice of salaries being paid to people who don’t exist, so-called ghost...
Read MoreNigeria’s secret police on Friday rearrested Publisher of Sahara Reporters Omoyele Sowore less than 24 hours after he was released on the order of an Abuja based Federal High Court. Operatives of the Department of State Service (DSS) stormed the court premises on resume trial of Sowore and his co-accused Olawale Bakare and whisked...
Read MoreFinally, the Department of State Security (DSS) has complied with the order of the Federal High Court in Abuja which directed it to release the Publisher of Sahara Reporters and convener of #RevolutionNow, Omoyele Sowore, and his co-accused, Olawale Bakare. Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu had ordered the DSS to release Sowore and Bakare within 24...
Read MoreA Federal High Court in Lagos Thursday convicted a former governor of Abia State and Senate Chief Whip, Orji Uzor Kalu, who was charged with N7.1 billion fraud. Kalu’s co-defendants are his firm, Slok Nigeria Limited and Udeh Udeogu, who was Director of Finance and Accounts at the Abia State Government House during Kalu’s...
Read MoreGhanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo said he’ll seek re-election, as campaigning for next December’s vote gets underway in the West African nation. Akufo-Addo, 75, told broadcaster Citi FM he wants a second four-year term to continue “all the strong work that is going into reconstructing our economy and laying the foundation for agriculture and for...
Read MoreA federal high court in Lagos has ordered President Mohammadu Buhari to recover of N40 billion paid to former and serving ministers and senators that are ex-governors as pensions and allowances by their respective states. According to the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), judgment seeks recovered the fund paid to the ex-state governors...
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