A group, the Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC), has alleged that over 5,000 Nigerian youths are illegally detained in the ReÂpublic of Benin and asked the Federal Government to investiÂgate it. At a press conference in Abuja, the group urged the federal govÂernment to investigate its claims, adding that its members had emÂbarked on month-long resea...
•House of Reps The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the House of Representatives today ordered the Federal Ministry of Industries, Trade and Investment, along with its past and present Permanent Secretaries, to jointly refund a whopping sum of N75 billion to the covers of the federal government with immediate effect. The Committee chaired by...
•House of Reps The leadership of the House of Representatives last night unveiled plans to commence an investigative hearing on the alleged mismanagement of COVID-19 Intervention Funds expended between 2020 and 2022. Chairman, House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Hon. Akin Rotimi gave the hint via a statement made available to Parliame...
•Buhari Former President Muhammadu Buhari today, said his administration kept records of its stewardship, knowing that he would always be required to account for the trust entrusted to him. President Buhari stated this in his remarks at the book launch that chronicled his achievements in the eight years he held sway, reports Vanguard. The book...
•Sadiya Farouq and Betta Edu The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday seized the travel documents of suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation Dr. Betta Edu and her predecessor Hajiya Sadiya Umar-Farouq. The anti-graft agency also impounded the international passport of the suspended National Coord...
•Education minister, Prof. Tahir Mamman The federal government has set up a committee to investigate the activities of private universities established in the last 15 years. The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman who spoke during the inauguration of the inter-ministerial committee on degree mills in the country, today, said this would s...
The probe instituted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) into the use of foreign exchange by some companies and financial institutions under the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele is to be spread to at least 20 banks, sources close to the commission have said. This paper was […]
•Betta Edu and Tinubu President Bola Tinubu has ordered a thorough probe of the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation led by Betta Edu. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, made this known in a statement yesterday. Controversy had enveloped Edu’s alleged involvement in the approval of N585,19...
•Beta Edu Anger over the memo issued by the Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, instructing the Accountant-General of the Federation, Dr Oluwatoyin Madein, to pay N585m into the private bank account of a project accountant in her ministry, Bridget Oniyelu, spiked yesterday, with the opposition parties calli...
•Sadiya Umar-Farouq Former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, must appear at the Abuja headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for interrogation, the agency has said. The ex-minister, who cited health challenges, approached the anti-graft agency through ...
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