The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to “thoroughly investigate the role and involvement of the World Bank in the repatriation, management and spending of repatriated ‘Abacha loot’”. In the new report, the group also recommended that the government should probe other similar funds, with a view to ensuring full transparency and ... Read More »
Some call it the Buhari bounce. Others describe it as the Buhari effect. Yet some others say it is the Buhari aura. One thing is however crystal clear. Things have not been the same in the past 100 days in Nigeria, since Muhammadu Buhari assumed the presidency. A new sheriff has truly come to town. Exactly 100 days ago, he ... Read More »
President Muhammadu Buhari has set a deadline of Tuesday, September 15, 2015 for full compliance with his directive that all revenue due to the Federal Government or any of its agencies must be paid into the Treasury Single Account (TSA) or designated accounts maintained and operated in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), except otherwise expressly approved. A circular issued ... Read More »
Amid fears that a government policy of feeding primary school pupils in the country will impose a huge financial burden on the Buhari administration, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said on Wednesday that the policy will attract investment to the tune of N980 billion. The vice president also said the school feeding programme will bring create jobs, and raise food production ... Read More »
There is a strong indication that the rift between former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, and Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Seriake Dickson, may have ended. It was learnt on Wednesday that Mrs. Jonathan had announced her decision to bury the hatchet with Dickson and directed all her loyalists in the state to work selflessly for the Peoples Democratic Party ... Read More »
Kola Popson The National Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal has dismissed a petition filed by Sen. Bashir Lado questioning the victory of the immediate past Governor of Kano State, Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwaso, in the 2015 Kano State Central Senatorial election. It would be recalled that INEC had declared Kwankwaso the winner of the March 28 senatorial election in the state, leading ... Read More »
Governor of Imo State and the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Governors’ Forum, Chief Rochas Okorocha, says his ultimate desire is to unite the governors and leaders of the South East to work with the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government. Chief Okorocha made his feelings known, yesterday, while addressing newsmen at the Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport, SMICA, ... Read More »
Kola Popson The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has issued a formal statement reacting to the purported diversion of N1 trillion by its Chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde. This allegation against the EFCC boss has become a subject of discourse to many, who consider the allegation, either true or false, a slap to a commission saddled with the responsibility of fighting ... Read More »
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