The Federal Government on Thursday expressed worry over the diminishing number of whistleblowers, persons willing to divulge information on looted funds and other corrupt practices.
The matter is worsened by the fact that the whistleblowers are no longer comfortable to blow the cover of corrupt persons since the new arrangement requires them to fill forms to document their claims.
The Permanent Secretary Special Duty in the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning and Head, Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit (PICA), Mr Mohammed Dikwa made the revelations on Thursday in Abuja at a workshop to discuss the draft bill …
Appeal Court Justice Chioma Nwosu-Iheme, who was abducted in Benin City last month and recently regained her freedom after about 14 days in captivity, has narrated how six “uniformed policemen”, who parked their Hilux vehicle on bad stretch of a road in Benin City, abducted her and killed her police orderly, according to a report in The Source Magazine.
Justice Chioma Nwosu-Iheme was abducted on October 30, 2019 at about 11.30am in Benin City. Her security …
A Kano State High Court on Thursday nullified the creation of four additional first-class emirates and their emirs by the state government.
The presiding judge, Justice Usman Na’Abba, said the law that provided for the creation of the emirate was not properly enacted, based on the provision of section 101 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended).
Justice Na’Abba said the Kano State House of Assembly had violated the provision of Section 101 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended), which allows the assembly to make laws.
He then declared …
The origin of rotational leadership and management of political institutions predates democracy, as a social system for inclusion and stability in any heterogeneous political arrangement. In international system, European Union and Switzerland operate a classic instance of this system – the Presidency of EU rotates amongst its member states every six months, while the Presidency of the Swiss Confederation rotates among the seven Councillors on a yearly basis, with one year’s Vice President of the Federal Council becoming the next year’s Confederation President.
The political theory for rotating Nigerian Presidency finds its fulcrum on balancing the wheel of social justice, …
Afan revealed this at the side line of the Validation of Community Participatory Assessment of Government Expenditure on Agriculture/Community Score Cards on Smallholder Women Farmers Access to Agricultural Insurance Services in Nigeria.
According to her, insurance is a major problem to small holder farmers as many women in the rural area do not have access to insurance covers that will indemnify their projects even those who have,
Respected Nigerian musician, Innocent Ujah Idibia better known by his stage name, 2Baba Idibia has slammed the Nigerian system in a tweet on his Twitter page.
The outspoken Nigerian entertainer who is known for speaking out about the ills and wrongs in the Nigerian society in his latest tweet is condemning the Nigerian system which he refers to as a joke.
The singer’s tweet expresses his disappointment with the way the country is being governed by its leaders whom he refers to as criminals.
He however maintains hope for the younger generation whom he prays can influence positive change
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The lawyer said the EFCC is now bringing up a 32-count charge against the defendants in the case contrary to the initial 16-count charge bordering on money laundering.
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that
The returning officer for the election and vice-chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Professor Ibrahim Umar, announced the result at the INEC office in Lokoja on Monday, November 18.
Bello won 12 local governments to beat his major challenger Musa Wada of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) who won 9 local governments.
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President Muhammadu Buhari on October 8 presented the Finance Bill to a joint session of the National Assembly for consideration and passage into law.
The president presented the bill alongside the 2020 Appropriation Bill. He proposed an increase in the Valued-Added Tax rate from five percent to 7.5 percent.
The bill also proposes to amend the
The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) said it has commenced the verification of about 7,000 retirees in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The Executive Secretary of PTAD, Chioma Ejikeme, who disclosed this recently in Abuja said the verification was going on simultaneously in the three centres in the FCT.
She noted that those expected to partake in the exercise are retirees from the defunct Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL), and its mobile arm, MTEL, and the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN).
Others include both academic and non-academic staff of federal universities.
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Not many post-1970 kids know Dr. Okechukwu Ikejiani. But many who lived during his time remember that he was Chairman of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) and at the same time doubled as Pathologist-in-Chief of the corporation in Lagos. He was a university teacher and an expert in the medical field.
Biographical records of him available on igbonet.com, listed him as a lecturer in Pathology at the University of Nigeria Nsukka, Consultant Pathologist at the University Teaching Hospital Ibadan, Director of National Clinic Laboratories Ibadan, Medical Director of Pfizer Laboratories, Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Council of University of Ibadan. …
The federal government has approved the issuance of Euro 500 million sovereign guarantee from the Credit Suisse AG London Branch and a syndicate of international lenders.
Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Clement Agba, told State House correspondents Wednesday after the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari. He said the international lenders will serve as collateral for the Euro 500 million facility, to be extended to the Bank of Industry.
He explained that the purpose of the loan is to finance major industrialisation projects and Micro-Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) values chains …
