Author: NAN

It would be recalled that former Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, had a run-in with the 36 governors under the auspices of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum. Against her advice, significant portions of the Excess Crude Account were used to augment monthly allocations to local and state authorities. The states had maintained that rainy days were already at hand and in fact (the rain) was already pouring, so the money needed to be used right away

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Nasir, who is a civil servant, described the situation as unfair, adding that his son had registered early enough to avoid such far posting.
“Despite JAMB’s policy of posting within one’s vicinity, he was still not considered,” he said

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The statement reads in part: “It is an obvious fact that the official and spare cars that the Senate President inherited and has been using are old and have been malfunctioning. There are instances like the day Dr. Saraki visited Keffi for the marriage of the daughter of Senator Abdullahi Adamu and another day at the Presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport that the spare vehicle broke down

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