The Federal Government received two trillion naira as revenue from January to June 2019, Director-General of the Budget Office, Mr Ben Akabueze, has said. Akabueze disclosed this at the Public Consultative Forum on the 2020 to 2022 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper (MTEF/FSP) in Abuja on Tuesday. He explained that within the […]
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Nigeria’s minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau on Tuesday decorated the newly appointed Controller-General (CG), Federal Fire Service (FFS), Liman Ibrahim. The appointment of Mr Ibrahim took effect from March 26, after the retirement of Joseph Anebi, former FFS CG. During the decoration at the Minister’s office in Abuja, Mr Dambazau urged the CG to educate […]
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The Director-General (DG) of the National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Mojisola Adeyeye, says she was once asked for bribe by the house of representatives committee on healthcare services. Speaking when she featured on a Channels TV programme on Friday, Adeyeye said the committee asked her for the bribe in the form […]
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In contravention of constitutional provisions, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo illegally approved the release of the sum of N5, 865, 671, 939.26 in June 2017 from the Consolidated Revenue Fund Account which was mismanaged by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), a report by the House Committee of the National Assembly (NASS)on NEMA has stated. The […]
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The Independent Corrupt Practices Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arraigned Mr Bature Umar Masari, a former Director-General of the Small and Medium Scale Enterprise Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) before an FCT High Court sitting in Apo, Abuja. The former DG was arraigned on 27 counts bothering on money laundering and embezzlement. According to […]
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Transport minister Rotimi Amaechi has been appointed as Secretary/Director-General of campaign organisation for President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election in 2019. Buhari approved the appointment on Thursday, Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, said in Abuja. Amaechi was the Director-General of the Buhari-Osinbajo Presidential Campaign Committee in 2014 to 2015 that won the […]
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Some elders under the aegis of the Southern and Middle Belt Forum have accused President Muhammadu Buhari of dividing Nigeria more than any other leader in the nation’s history. In a statement Thursday, the forum condemned Buhari’s removal of Matthew Seiyefa, acting director-general of the Department of State Services (DSS). The leaders alleged that the […]
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The Department of State Services on Monday described as untrue the allegation that a huge sum of money and weapons were found in the house of its sacked Director General, Lawal Daura. Tony Opuiyo, the agency’s spokesman, in a statement in Abuja, said there was no iota of truth in the allegation that N21bn and […]
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The Acting President of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo has appointed Mr Matthew Seiyefa as the Acting Director-General, Department of State Services (DSS), following the sack of the former Director-General Lawal Daura on Tuesday. Seiyefa, who hails from Bayelsa State, was before his new appointment the most senior director in the DSS. Mr Laolu Akande, Senior Special […]
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One of President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointee, Modibbo Kawu, the Director-General of National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) is enmeshed in what has been termed hate speech against Senate President Bukola Saraki. Following the defection of Bukola Saraki, governors of Benue, Kwara and Sokoto from the APC to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kawu, in a WhatsApp […]
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