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According to the EFCC, a former acting Governor of Taraba State, Senator Sani Abubakar, chaired the committee that supervised the sharing of N450 million in Taraba State and a former Minister of Labour and Productivity, Senator Joel Danlami, benefited from the cash, while Senator Sa’idu Kumo of Gombe State collected N450 million campaign fund for the re-election of former president Goodluck Jonathan

The statement said: “Only God knows the worth of her mortgage in the US, Germany, Switzerland, South Africa, etc, even at this time when the nation’s economy is gasping for breath and roads turned death traps. A N3.7b mortgage when states cannot pay salaries and thousands of Nigerians still lacking affordable houses is height of insensitivity and wickedness. The act overtly is nothing but a case of man’s inhumanity to man

Ghanashyam said: “From other countries, when we buy oil, whatever we want to pay, we pay to the Ministry of Finance of that country. In Nigeria, we pay to intermediaries. We would like to be dealing directly with the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation. It’s not a good thing. Why should we go through intermediaries? Secondly, we would also like to have long term agreement, which we have with many countries: Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and other countries from where we buy oil. Nigeria is the only country with whom we don’t have an agreement. .. When we write a letter to NNPC, we don’t get a response

Fashola, who spoke at the Lagos House, Ikeja, while hosting the Consul-General of Lebanon, Dima Haddad, and members of the Lebanese Nigeria Initiatives, who had come to present a cheque for N80 million and the keys to a troop carrier truck donated to the Lagos State Security Trust Fund, said continued silence of the stakeholders on the issue constituted an injustice against the ordinary Nigerians who have had to contribute from their meagre earnings to fund projects and programmes that are constitutionally the responsibility of government