November 2021

President Muhammadu Buhari has explained why he activated the Treasury Single Account (TSA) when he came on board as President.

According to the President, the TSA was put in place to address irregularities, ensure accountability, curb the incessant number of accounts and enable the tracking of all government revenues.

Buhari made this disclosure on Tuesday when he spoke at the third National Summit on Diminishing Corruption in the Public Sector.

‘When we came into government, we found out that some institutions had hundreds of accounts. How can the Accountant General trace them?

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The Lagos State Government has made public the White Paper on the #EndSARS Panel of Inquiry report which was submitted to it a fortnight ago.

In the report, the state government stated that of the 32 recommendations by the panel, it has accepted 11, accepted 6 modifications, and rejected one.

The document also noted that 14 of the recommendations fall outside the powers of the state and will be forwarded to the Federal Government for consideration.

Details of what the recommendations are, are, however, yet to clear.

Africa Daily News, New York recalls that a leaked version of the report …

The Chairman of DAAR Communications and a chieftain of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Raymond Dokpesi has alerted Nigerians on why he feels that the All Progressives Congress (APC), may not willingly surrender power like the then President Goodluck Jonathan did in 2015.

He called on Nigerians to be prepared to wrestle power from the ruling party by going back to the drawing board and uniting behind ‘a competent leader that is capable of dealing with the security challenge of this country, a leader who is not a religious bigot.’

Chief Dokpesi who led a team of supporters …

The Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu, on Monday revealed what he discussed with Nnamdi Kanu when he visited the IPOB leader in the custody of the Department of State Services (IPOB).

Kalu, in a statement personally signed by him which was obtained by Africa Daily News, New York, revealed that the IPOB leader was in good health and under proper care.

The former governor of Abia State further disclosed that he spoke with Kanu as a brother and told him the need to consider the consequences of certain actions that he would be taking.

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Sweden’s parliament on Monday elected Magdalena Andersson as the country’s prime minister, the first woman to hold the post, five days after her first bid lasted only hours.

Despite being a nation that has long championed gender equality, Sweden has never before had a woman as prime minister.

Last week Andersson was elected by parliament but she had to resign just hours later — before she even had a chance to formally take office — after the Green Party quit her coalition government.

The 54-year-old, who is the outgoing finance minister, will now head a minority government made up solely …

The Northern Elders Forum (NEF), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari not to release the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu from custody.

Africa Daily News, New York recalls that Buhari had after a meeting with the Southeast elders a fortnight ago promised to consider a lighter resolution but worried that such would interfere with the principles of separation of power between the Executive and Judiciary.

The forum in a statement signed by the Director of Publicity, Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed insisted that there are no safe grounds for president Buhari to grant the request.

‘Nnamdi Kanu’s …