Tag: state governors
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Govs have hijacked LG allocations, Afe Babalola tells Tinubu
Founder of Afe Babalola University Ado-Ekiti, ABUAD, Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, Thursday, tasked President Bola Tinubu to ensure that local government areas in the country receive their allocations directly from the federation account, to revive agriculture and boost the economy. He lamented that the local councils have remained ineffective over the years in bringing development…
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You can’t choose my ministers for me, Buhari tells APC Governors
There are strong indications that the President-elect Muhammadu Buharihe may be heading for a collision with the party’s governors over the appointment of ministers in his cabinet. Reliable sources told our correspondent in Abuja on Monday night, that Buhari has vehemently rejected the ministerial list sent to him by the state governors and the party…
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ICPC boss challenges governors, council chairmen on corruption
The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), Ekpo Nta has challenged state governments in the Federation to join the fight against corruption. Speaking during an NTA personality programme monitored in Abuja, the ICPC boss was of the view that if the state governments and the local government chairmen had…
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Pro-poor Confab delegates vow to resist removal of Land Use Act from Constitution
Some delegates at the ongoing National Conference have vowed to resist with all vehemence, surreptitious attempt to remove the Land Use Act from the Nigerian Constitution. They have also declared their readiness to ensure that the “draconian recommendation” by the conference committee on Land Tenure Matters and National Boundaries, does not sail through at the…
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States walk out of FAAC meeting, reject August allocation
The forum of state commissioners for finance yesterday walked out of the Federal Accounts Allocation Committee, FAAC and rejected August disbursement insisting that the exercise was meant to short circuit the states. Chairman of the Commissioners Forum Timothy Odaah said that ‚ÄúThe hasty and limited disbursement is to ensure that they (Federal Government) short circuit…