Advice against media attacks, insults on the Governor A former Minister of Lands and Housing, Chief Nduese Essien, says ‘the ongoing vilification” of Governor Udom Emmanuel by aggrieved aspirants was unwarranted, despite the Governor’s open support to his Commissioner for Lands and Water Resources, Pastor Umo Eno for the 2023 Governorship position in the State. […]

By Peter Duru, Makurdi Over 39 illegal checkpoint operators and fake tax collectors have been apprehended by the Benue Internally Revenue Service, BIRS, for mounting barricades on highways to extort truck drivers and traders. The Executive Chairman of BIRS, Mrs. Mimi Adzape-Orubibi who made this known on Tuesday in Makurdi lamented that the menace of […]

Through her YMonitor Accountability Project, the Future Project Africa is set to hold its maiden public advocacy workshop on electoral reforms on Thursday, February 17th in Lagos and Saturday, February 26th in Kano.

The Jigawa State and Local Governments Contributory Pension Board, says it has disbursed about N4 billion entitlements to 12,868 retirees in the last six years. The Executive Secretary of the board, Alhaji Kamilu Aliyu, made the disclosure when the National President of Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), Mr Ambali Akeem, paid him a […]

Mr Bako Nathan, Head, Special Operations, Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), says the commission has blocked unspent funds of government agencies totalling N189 billion in 2019 and 2020, collectively. Nathan disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja before the House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee investigating alleged corruption and abuse of nominal […]