Senate Committee on Public Account has summoned the officials of Ministry of Solid Minerals for pocketing N2 billion meant to be remitted into the Federation account. The committee relied on the query of the Auditor General of the Federation of 2016 which is being considered by Senate Committee on Public Account chaired by Senator Mathew Urhogvide. The query reads, “During examination of FAAC records, we observed that a cumulative total of N9,923,015,028.00 Solid Minerals revenue collected in 2015 was paid into the Federation Account in the year ended 31st December 2016. “We noted that the Ministry reported the same total…
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The money laundering trial of former senior special assistant on public affairs to Ex- President Goodluck Jonathan. Doyin Okupe, before Justice ijeoma Ojukwu of the federal High court Abuja has been adjourned till April 26 and 27, 2021 for continuation of trial. At the resumed trial on Friday, March 5, 2021, counsel to the first defendant, G.K Gadzama, SAN, led in evidence, the fifth defence witness, Ehimare Edokwa Harold, an Assistants Manager at the murtala Muhammed Airport Branch Bank Nigeria Limited, Lagos. The witness told the Court that he was mandated to appear and present the mandated card and statement…
Students of the Federal College of Education (FCE), Akoka, Lagos State, have staged a protest against the management of the school for allegedly installing CCTV cameras around the female hostels within the school premises. The protest broke out in the early hours of yesterday, after the School’s Dean of Students, Wahab Azeez, was alleged to have entered the hostel at midnight, to chase students out, over some behaviour he couldn’t condone which he saw via the cameras. According to some of the students, the CCTV camera was installed almost everywhere in the female hostel thereby denying them of personal privacy.…
The Independent National Electoral Commission says revision of electoral constituencies/adjustment of their boundaries are joint responsibilities of the commission and the National Assembly. The commission made the clarification in a statement by Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, in Abuja on Friday. Okoye said the clarification became necessary following recent media reports regarding the commission’s responsibilities in the division, revision and adjustment of electoral constituency boundaries in Nigeria. He noted that the division of the country into electoral constituencies for Senate, House of Representatives and State Houses of Assembly was the responsibility of the…
Dr Ronke Bello, a policy analyst, investment-branding advisor and communication expert has been appointed as a strategist on Investment-Policy and Communication to Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello. A statement said Bello was trained in the Arts at the University of Ilorin; Public Administration and Policy Analysis at the University of Abuja. She was also at the University of London for International Public Relations and Marketing programme, thereafter at the Harvard Business School Boston-USA for a programme on Strategic Leadership. She has to her credit years of experience in top levels of management, both in the public and private sectors and a career that…
The Bauchi state government has commissioned a N6. 2 billion reconstruction and rehabilitation of the state government house, at a ground breaking ceremony in Bauchi. Speaking during the ceremony, carried out on the margins of the 4th North East Governors’ Forum meeting, Gov. Bala Mohammed said that the project was part of his administration’s vision to leave legacies and landmarks as a government and as a people. Mohammed explained that the project was conceptualized in order to give Bauchi a new impetus by giving them a befitting government house, similar to those in other states. “This is a legacy project…
Leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the South-South has tasked the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, to deflate the ego of Governor Nyesom Wike by ensuring victory for the party in Rivers State come 2023. The leaders also said the Supreme Court judgement that sacked Igo Aguma as the party’s Chairman in Rivers was in order. They urged the authentic Caretaker Committee Chairman of the party, Isaac Ogbobula and the Transport Minister to begin operation sweep Rivers 2023 They also accused Igo Aguma and his sponsors of wanting to pull down the Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Rotimi…
Yoruba leader, Prof. Banji Akintoye, has said only the pursuit and attainment of self-determination will save the Yoruba from being continually dragged down by Nigeria and ultimately from being destroyed by the persistent onslaught of Fulani herdsmen and militia terrorists, their promoters and backers, and their allied International terrorists like Boko Haram from the Nigerian North East, ISIS from Syria and Iraq, Al Qaeda from Libya and Al Shabaab from Somalia. In a statement released yesterday after a meeting of the Ilana Omo Oodua, of which he is the president, Akintoye welcomed the convergence of views among Yoruba groups around…
The Leader of the INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has spoken about the Anambra State governorship election coming up later in 2021. The popular prophet has warned some strong contenders in the election not to bother wasting money on campaigns because God has not backed their aspirations to become governor in the state. Prophet Ayodele also spoke on the move by a former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, to produce the next governor of the state by backing an aspirant for the number one seat in the state. Fayose is a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party.…
