Based on the public outburst of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission Chairman, Mr Ola Olukoyede, in his New Year message that exposed the Commission’s investigators’ staff for bribery and corruption reports, which shows a new sheriff in town, attributes from him as the new helmsman of EFCC. It is now observed upon discovering a purported deliberate delay mechanism in ... Read More »
Allocation highest ever N500b kept in savings Yusuf: let gains of reform reflect on citizens It was a huge “payday” for the tiers of government yesterday. The federal, state and local governments shared a handsome N1.127 trillion from the N1.674 trillion collectable revenue in December 2023. Over N500 billion was saved to take care of future needs. It is the ... Read More »
Ola Olukoyede, the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has alleged that some of the commission’s investigators are taking bribes, noting that he had a process in motion to fish them out. Olukoyede made this known on Thursday, January 18, in his New Year address to staff members of the anti-graft agency at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja. ... Read More »
Reference to the publication from Thisday newspapers management published on 17th January 2024, the said publication indicating our Karmo district market in Abuja was on fire. The said misinformation was published where Karmo district market picture was used to represent the scene of the inferno. The incidence since the publication had degenerated to untold anxieties and panic among our numerous ... Read More »
President Bola Tinubu has approved the payment of renewal fees for the Group Life Assurance for federal government workers. Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Mohammed Idris, disclosed this on Wednesday at the end of the first 2024 meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) held in Abuja. He said that this was sequel to a memo brought by ... Read More »
The Oyo state government has established an Emergency Situation Room to facilitate swift assistance for survivors and victims of Ibadan explosion. Professor Temitope Alonge will lead the initiative, overseeing the coordinated response to the incident. The Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Sulaimon Olanrewaju gave the hint on Wednesday, January 17. He said: “The Oyo State Government has set up ... Read More »
President Bola Tinubu on Monday, January 15, met with former President Olusegun Obasanjo at the inauguration of Hope Uzodinma as the governor of Imo for his second term in office. The ceremony took place at the Dan Anyiam stadium in Owerri, the state capital. Tinubu and Obasanjo were invited to the ceremony by Uzodinma. During the ceremony, the duo exchanged ... Read More »
Aformer deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Kingsley Moghalu, has supported the move by the apex bank to “decongest” its head office in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, describing it as a logical decision. NEWSTHUMB reports that on January 12, 2024, the CBN issued a circular announcing the commencement of plans to comprehensively “decongest” its Head ... Read More »
The Presidency on Sunday said the Bola Tinubu administration has no sacred cows and will spare nobody found culpable in the ongoing investigation of the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation and its Social Investment Programmes. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Ajuri Ngelale, said this when he spoke on TVC’s Politics on Sunday. ... Read More »
There couldn’t have been a better predictor of what to expect from President Bola Tinubu in 2024 than the way and manner he began the New Year. For the President, 2024 started on a business like, work-filled note. While many were still savouring the New Year, the Nigerian leader cut short his Christmas/New Year holiday in Lagos, on January 1, ... Read More »
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