President Muhammadu Buhari said on Monday that the Federal Government has saved N200 billion through the elimination of ghost workers by the action of the Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit (PICA), the monitoring organ of the whistleblower policy. Buhari, represented by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, announced this in a keynote address at the Open Government
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Mr Boss Gida Mustapha, has said the Federal Government will soon make dossier of persons with significant control over incorporated companies available to the public in order to stop secret ownership of companies and property in the country. Mr Mustapha who disclosed this in Abuja on
The African Development Bank (AfDB) says Africa needs about one hundred and seventy billion dollars annually to meet its infrastructure requirement. Professor Vincent Nmehielle, Secretary General of the bank disclosed this at a media briefing to announce the bank annual meeting, on Thursday in Abidjan. “In 2016, the bank approved 7.8bn dollars to finance investment
A Lokoja Magistrate Court has ordered that embattled Senator Dino Melaye representing Kogi West Senatorial district be remanded in police custody for 38 days pending commencement of hearing in the case brought by the police against him and three others. The charges the police brought against Senator Melaye bothered on criminal conspiracy and unlawful possession
The Chairman Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has assured Nigerians that their votes would count in 2019 general election. Yakubu stated at youth votes count campus outreach programme organised by the commission in conjunction with European Centre for Electoral Support (ECES) and YIAGA Africa at UniAbuja campus, on Thursday. “Let me give
President Muhammadu Buhari is yet to arrive Abuja, two days after he left Washington DC, where he met with President Donald Trump and business executives. Garba Shehu, senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, said Buhari “had technical stopover in London and will be on his way back soon,” giving an
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says President Muhammadu Buhari’s “technical stopover” in the UK is a constitutional breach. Buhari left the US on Tuesday after meeting with President Donald Trump and some top businessmen. However, has has not been seen in Nigeria since then. Reacting to complaints over the president’s absence, Garba Shehu, senior special
Innocent ‘2baba’ Idibia has called on Nigerian youth to register for their permanent voter cards (PVC) ahead of the 2019 general election. He made the call at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) campus outreach program on ‘Youth Votes Count’ at the University of Abuja on Thursday. Idibia, who is also an INEC youth ambassador,
The House of Representatives has rejected a bill seeking to grant leave to married men in advent of child birth by their wives. The bill aims to provide for an act to make provisions for optional paternity leave to all married male employees in private and public sectors. Lagos and Enugu states are among the
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has fired yet another shot at President Muhammadu Buhari, saying “the mediocre performance of Buhari cannot be described as by anybody as superlative even by morons”. Obasanjo said this while denying the reports that he has decided to endorse Buhari’s second term. The elder statesman said he has made known his