Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari urging him to use his leadership position “to promptly drop the plan by the Federal Government to borrow about N895bn of unclaimed dividends and funds in dormant accounts using the patently unconstitutional and illegal Finance Act, 2020, and to ensure ...

The Director-General of the Budget Office, Ben Akabueze, says the Federal Government has been increasing the budget of the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation (OAGF) in the last four years. He stated this on Thursday when he featured as a guest on Channels Television’s breakfast programme – Sunrise Daily. “If you go and look at the ...

Mr. Ben Akabueze, the Director-General of the Budget Office has clarified the controversy sparked by his recent comments on workers’ salaries when he appeared before a committee of lawmakers. Akabueze stated that he was quoted wrongly by saying that the nation was broke and could not afford the salary of workers in the Federal Civil ...

UNICEF says the outbreak of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) will not stop its support and interventions toward the welfare and protection of rights of children in Nasarawa state and the country in general. Dr. Zakari Adam, Chief of Field Office, UNICEF Kaduna, gave the assurance in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lafia ...

The Presidential Task Force (PTF), on COVID-19 on Thursday lifted the ban on sporting activities and directed all categories of civil servants to resume work. The task force’s National Coordinator of the PTF, Dr. Sani Aliyu, disclosed this at its press briefing in Abuja. Aliyu said : “It is therefore the informed recommendation of the ...

The Lagos State Government has indicated its readiness to deliver the Ikorodu sub-region Masterplan as the proposed development plan for the area reached Stage Three of the Draft on Friday. Speaking during the technical presentation of the masterplan by the town planning consultants, Cityscape Planning Services at the Nigeria Institute of Town Planning House, CBD, ...

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabimila, on Thursday said that the parliament would no longer tolerate under remittance of funds by revenue generating agencies to the Consolidated Account through the Treasury Single Account, TSA.. He said such acts rob the nation of needed funds to execute projects, warning that the House ...

The Nigerian government has received a life insurance cover for all front line workers in the fight against the coronavirus. This was disclosed by the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force, PTF, on COVID-19, Mr Boss Mustapha, during a briefing in Abuja on Friday. Mustapha, who is also the Secretary to the Government of the ...

Gov. Bello Matawalle   The Zamfara Government says it will drag a total of 108 civil servants to court for allegedly receiving double salary in different ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) in the state. The state’s Commissioner for Finance, Alhaji Rabi’u Garba, disclosed this at a press briefing on Sunday in Gusau. Garba said that ...

The National Population Commission (NPC) said it was able to collect information on disability status of Nigerians for the first time in the 2018 National Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS). Bimbola Hundeyin, the Ag Chairman of the Commission, stated this while speaking at the National Dissemination and official launch of the report of the 2018 ...