Atiku queries Tinubu over suspicious N12.8trn service-wide vote
Atiku zeroed in on the Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning, where he said N2.19 trillion of the SWV is listed as personnel costs, dwarfing the N54.8 billion allocated for salaries at the Federal Ministry of Finance. "Who exactly are the workers earning ₦2.19 trillion? Where are they? What offices do they occupy? What agencies do they belong to?" he asked, describing the figures as budgetary absurdity rather than legitimate planning.
Fashola approves redevelopment of Oshodi market
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has approved the award of prototype block of the redevelopment of Oshodi Market.
Amnesty International faults Yar’Adua’s package
Amnesty International yesterday dismissed as misplaced priority the amnesty package offered by the Federal Government to the Niger Delta militants.
Akala’s aide kidnapped, N20m ransom demanded
THE Executive Assistant to Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala on Administration, Mr. Richard Fagbemi, was kidnapped on his way from Abuja on Sunday.
Implementation, bane of 1999 Constitution—Mark
Ominous cloud shadowed President Umaru Yar‘Adua’s electoral reform proposal yesterday when the Senate President, Chief David Mark, faulted the insincerity of the implementers of the 1999 Constitution.
ACAMB flays rating of Nigerian banks
The Association of Corporate Affairs Managers of Banks (ACAMB) has condemned in totality the publication by The Africa Report, a bi-monthly published by Paris-based Groupe Jeune Afrique which was quoted by The Punch, a Nigerian daily, classifying Nigerian banks into an unknown and unacceptable ratings.
