Bala Gukut, the Deputy Director, Drought and Desertification Amelioration Department, Federal Ministry of Environment, conveyed the government’s commitment in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Wednesday.
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The Chairman berated the companies, including, Aiteo Energy, Neconde Energy, Frontier Energy and seven indigenous oil companies for allegedly not showing interest to remit the fund.
Adeosun told the delegation, made up of 30 companies from France, that government had previously released N450 billion for capital projects, and with additional N750 billion, a total of N1.2 trillion would have invested in infrastructure in the country.
The Minster of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, said this at the 22nd monthly meeting of stakeholders in the power sector at Geregu, Kogi State.
Some of the beneficiaries of the scheme who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria said they have not been paid their October and November stipends.
Onu made the disclosure at the South West Sensitization Programme on National Science, Technology and Innovation Roadmap on Friday in Lagos.
In interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Friday, the politicians and others described the situation as unfortunate and urged actions to discourage the trend.
“Camps in the other regions are known but inaccessible camps due to the challenges of going into these camps as a communication chain is required before we can reach them.”
Buhari, who made the remark at an interactive session with community leaders in Kano, said the Federal Government would remain resolute in the fight against corruption in the country.
“We have visited the detention camps and also collaborated with the International Organisation for Migration to repatriate migrants weekly.
Justice Aikawa also ordered a forfeiture to the Federal Government of six flats of three bedroom, six flats of two bedroom, six flats of one bedroom, and four flats of three bedroom duplex, belonging to the director.
The Minister of State for Agriculture, Heineken Lokpobiri, raised the concern at a stakeholders’ consultative meeting in Abuja.
Approved by the Federal Executive Council in July, the plan seeks to reposition the federal civil service for efficiency and enhanced service delivery to Nigerians in line with the current administration’s Change Agenda.
Shittu said the partial commercialisation of NIPOST was in line with the Second Schedule Part 1 Section 6 of the Public Enterprises Privatisation and Commercialisation Act 1999.
It said the ultimatum will culminate in the shutting down all oil and gas installations, including disruptions to fuel supply and distribution, across the country.
It specifies between 2.5 per cent to 5 per cent of total recovery as reward for citizens whose acts of whistleblowing lead to the recovery of looted public funds.
It may be recalled that the Federal Government, in 2005, under the Monetisation Policy of ex-President Olusegun Obansanjo, sold some of its houses occupied by federal civil servants to them in order to cut down the cost of governance.
The Minister therefore asked the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, National Association of Academic Technologists and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities operating under the acronym of the Joint Action Committee, to call off the ongoing indefinite strike and make a fresh case in respect of its reservation on the implementation of the Point One of the Agreement concerning the disbursement of the N23 billion Earned Allowances.
Inaugurating the committee in Abuja, Boss Mustapha, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, urged the committee to ensure that the late Ekwueme gets a befitting state burial.
Olaopa made the plea on Monday at a news briefing in Ibadan, Oyo State to herald the week-long activities marking the 49th Annual General Meeting and Scientific Conference of the association.