Vitus Ekeocha, NOA’s director in Imo State, said this at a one-day interactive forum organised by the agency for stakeholders on Tuesday in Owerri.
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Speaking while receiving the management of Image Merchants Promotion Limited, led by Mallam. Yushau A. Shuaib, in his office, Muhammad noted that Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State has set a record of never harassing, threatening or intimidating journalists in the state.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has asked the Federal Government to “publish weekly details of exact funds and other resources allocated by the authorities and received from the private sector, as well as details of use and planned use of any such funds and resources to combat the spread of coronavirus (or COVID-19) in Nigeria.”
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has urged the public to be wary of attempts to drag the corporation into politics in the guise of requests for information under the Freedom of Information law.
The CCB had last week refused a Freedom of Information request by SERAP, stating: “Asset declaration form is private information.”
Lawyers have called on the Supreme Court to expedite the hearing of the appeals arising from Freedom of Information cases that are presently pending before it in order to clear up the controversy over the applicability of the Act to public institutions at the State and Local Government levels and other constitutional issues.
This is just as the non-governmental organization invoked a Freedom of Information request on the Commission for the copy of the manual check of the voters register that will enable the removal of identified underage registered voters from the register to be used for the registration of ballot papers.
In the letter for the request signed by HEDA’s Chairman, Olanrewaju Suraju, the Resource Center expressed serious concern over the recently revealed illegal allowances paid to members of parliament, especially the Senators.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, had on Friday released a list of some of those who have allegedly looted the nation’s treasury
Using the reports of Premium Times, an online newspaper, which partly reported contents of an audit report from the office of the Auditor General on September 11, 2016 as its ground for the request, CSNAC said the report detailed the failure of the National Assembly management to account for a total expenditure of over N9.4 billion in 2014 as revealed by the report
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has said that he is always ready to give account of how he managed the finances of the State in the last four years of his administration.