The federal government has cautioned Nigerians over the unhealthy status of imported rice smuggled into the country. At a media briefing in Lagos on Monday, Lai Mohammed, minister of information, said the government could not guarantee the healthy status of the rice having spent months on the high seas and warehouses. He appealed to Nigerians […]
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A former aide to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has slammed the Federal Government and the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, over the two lists of alleged looters released by the administration. The Minister had on Sunday circulated a statement containing a fresh list of 23 individuals undergoing trials for alleged corruption. But […]
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The Federal Government has reacted to attacks by some of the named treasury looters and has gone further to name 23 others, most of them members of the Peoples Democratic Party. In a press statement, Minister of Information and Culture, ALhaji Lai Mohammed said the list of alleged looters which Government released earlier was based […]
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The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) on Wednesday agreed to share N647.39 billion to federal, states and local governments as revenue generated in February. The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, said this in Abuja, while briefing journalists on the outcome of the monthly FAAC meeting. She said after deductions for cost of collections had been […]
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The Federal Government said it recovered more than N143. 89 billion from corrupt officials through the implementation of the Whistleblower policy. The Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit (PICA) disclosed this in a report made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja. The report showed that government had successfully recovered N7.8 […]
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The federal government disclosed on Sunday that a week-long ceasefire was declared from March 19 to enable the insurgents drop off the abducted Dapchi schoolgirls. Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, disclosed this in Lagos at a media briefing to give update and clarifications on the release of the schoolgirls in Dapchi, Yobe state. […]
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The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, addressed State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council meeting, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, said the Federal Government has released N1.248 trillion for capital projects. The minister also said the government had saved N68 billion on personnel cost in 2017. This brings the aggregate […]
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The federal government said a total of 106 abducted persons, comprising 104 Daphi schoolgirls, one other girl and a boy were freed by insurgents in the early hours of Wednesday. Briefing journalists in Maiduguri, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said all the 106 persons were freed unconditionally, contrary to reports in a […]
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The Federal Government of Nigeria, on Wednesday applied to the Federal High Court in Abuja to temporarily seize some properties belonging to the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, for failing to declare the assets to the Code of Conduct Bureau. Nine of the targeted properties are said to be in Abuja, two of them in […]
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Oil marketers have commenced a reduction of their workforce due to their inability to pay staff salaries, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Some of the marketers, who preferred anonymity, confirmed to NAN on Wednesday in Lagos that they resorted to adopt a massive sack of their workers as the Federal Government had yet […]
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