The office of the Auditor- General for the Federation (AuGF) in its 2019 Annual Audit Report has indicted the management of the National Assembly over how it spent funds running into billions of naira. The AGF, Aghughu Adolphus, in the audit queries uncovered how over N8.5 billion from the funds released to the National Assembly were expended within the period under review without evidence. The report, submitted to the Clerk to the National Assembly in August this year as required by the constitution, said the monies under scrutiny were not backed by vouchers and retirement documents. The audit report uncovered…
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The National Assembly has approved a N633.393 billion budget of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) for the 2022 fiscal year. The budget was approved after the Senate and the House of Representatives adopted the reports of their Committees on Telecommunications presented during plenary on Wednesday. Presenting her report, at the Senate, Chairperson of the Committee, Senator Olufemi Tinubu (APC, Lagos Central), said out of the approved sum, N86,242,952 was for Recurrent Expenditure; N30,336,144 for Capital Expenditure and N42,445,864 for Special Projects; N466,868,323 was transfer to Federal Government; and N7,500,000 as Transfer to Universal Service Provision Fund. She said, the Commission’s…
A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George, has asked a former Interim Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Bisi Akande, to withdraw his book, ‘My Participation’. In a text of press conference obtained by our correspondent on Thursday, George warned Akande against causing trouble for himself because of the political ambition of Bola Tinubu, APC national leader. According to the PDP leader, the book written by Akande is malicious and offensive to Yoruba elders. While describing the book as “shameful” and “disappointing”, George said Akande must apologise to Yoruba elders publicly. He said,…
The acting leader of Afenifere, Ayo Adebanjo has denied the allegation that his house in Lekki was built for him by Bola Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC). According to a statement by Adebanjo, the former governor of Osun, Bisi Akande in his recently released autobiography, ‘My Participations’ claimed that he brought pressure on Tinubu to build a house for him in Lekki. But reacting to the claim in a statement on Thursday, Adebanjo said he expected Tinubu to have refuted the “malicious falsehood about me emanating from his Man Friday” since he was at the book…
In the course of its routine media review, today, December 15, 2021, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) became aware of publications in some online media channels alleging the involvement of Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former Governor of Lagos State, in Mafab Communications Limited, one of the winners of the 5G spectrum sold by the Commission in a public auction conducted on Monday, December 13, 2021, at the Transcorp Hilton, Abuja. It bears restating that, consistent with the Commission’s long-established regulatory culture and tradition, the process leading to the auction of the 5G spectrum was open, fair and transparent in the…
Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike has urged Nigerians to be more careful in their choice of who to entrust with the responsibility of governing Nigeria, particularly members of the All Progressives Congress in 2023. He said this was because the ruling APC Federal Government has set Nigeria 20 years backwards in just six and half years of its misrule. Wike made the assertion at the inauguration of the Rivers State Government Safe Home that was performed by the Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel in the Borikiri axis of Port Harcourt on Wednesday. The governor in a statement by…
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo speaking at the Global Peace Foundation and Vision Africa event in Abuja on Tuesday. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says President Muhammadu Buhari has done his best in tackling insecurity facing the country. Obasanjo who made the remark at an event organised by the Global Peace Foundation and Vision Africa in Abuja on Tuesday said Nigerians should be concerned about making the country a better place after Buhari’s tenure. “President Buhari has done his best, that is what he can do, if you expect anything more than what he has done or what he is doing, you…
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Oyo State, has taken a swipe at Professor Adeolu Akande over his comments on Governor ‘Seyi Makinde’s approval of 8 billion naira contract for the construction of a power plant which, according to the state government, will provide uninterrupted power supply to both the Agodi Government House, the State Secretariat and environ, as well as power the Adamasingba Sports Complex, describing the Oke-ogun-born Professor as a political toddler. Accordimg to a press statement by Akande earlier on Sunday, the Professor was quoted as saying “Makinde’s administration seems to have lost sight of the primary problem…
Former Governor of Osun State and Interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Bisi Akande, has accused the General Muhammadu Buhari-led military regime of employing double standards in treatment of political detainees after the December 31, 1983 military coup. According to him, Southern and Christian political leaders got a raw deal compared to their Northern and Muslim counterparts during the regime’s onslaught against politicians in 1984 in the guise of fighting graft. Writing in “My participations,” his 557-page autobiography, which was launched last week, Chief Akande, who recalled his ordeals in various detention centres from Ibadan to…
Since his emergence as Nigeria’s number-two citizen, different accounts had been flying around on how Professor Yemi Osinbajo, actually secured the coveted vice-presidential slot, a majority of which revolved around the person of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, his former boss. Indeed, the recent revelation by Chief Bisi Akande in his book, “My Participations” was equally slanted to further pin down the narrative. You may recall that in 2016, Professor John Paden, authored a biography, ‘Muhammadu Buhari: The Challenges of leadership in Nigeria’, where he dismissed speculations that Tinubu, influenced the emergence of Osinbajo as Buhari’s running mate, but contended that Buhari,…