Alhaji Zakari Abubakar, the state Commissioner for Finance, who made the disclosure at a press briefing in Minna on Tuesday, said the total amount generated from internal sources during the period stood at more than N15.3 billion.
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The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, made this known in his address at the ongoing fourth edition of the Ogun Investors’ Forum in Abeokuta.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Alhaji Zakari Jikantoro, Commissioner for Local Government, disclosed this while addressing newsmen on the outcome of the state weekly executive council meeting.
Wale Osinowo, the State Commissioner for Finance, disclosed this while defending the ministry’s 2018 budget estimate before the House Committee on Finance and Appropriation in Abeokuta.
Bola Oyebanji, the Commissioner for Finance, announced refund to newsmen in Osogbo
The Federal Government through the Accountant General of the Federation, Alhaji Ahmed Idris, was responding to the suit filed by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project seeking “an order of mandamus directing and/or
The directives followed a unanimous adoption of a Motion of Urgent National Importance moved by Hon. Sunday Karimi at the plenary presided by the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, on Tuesday.
Okowa gave the directive in Asaba while declaring open a two-day Annual Audit Forum for Stakeholders organised by the state in conjunction with the State Employment and Expenditure for Results project.
The Federal government had on May 4 released details of the second tranche of Paris Club refund to States totalling N243. 795 billion.
The organization asked Obaseki to “spend the Paris Club refunds to pay all outstanding pension benefits within 14 days of the receipt and/or publication of this letter, failing which SERAP will institute appropriate international and regional legal proceedings to compel your state to discharge its constitutional and international human rights obligations to Edo pensioners”.
He was reacting to concerns that in spite of release of the refund by the Federal Government to the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, some states still owed workers arrears of salary.
Nigerians want to know how the deductions were initially made. They want to know at what time the Paris Club realised that there were excess deductions. They want to know when their government realised that the deductions were in excess. They would like to know who supervised the deductions. They want to know how much exactly was over-drawn and how much, in all, including interest is due to Nigeria. Information in this regard is not handy; and there is suspicion that this is deliberate to keep prying eyes of the Nigerian away from the details.
The labour leader said the union was satisfied with the transparent manner the two tranches of the Paris Club refund to the state had been utilised in the payment of salary arrears
The party, at a stakeholders’ meeting in Makurdi, said the state government had no reason to owe workers because it had received monies from “various fronts”
A statement issued in Lokoja on Saturday by the Commissioner of Finance, Idris Ashiru, said the government’s share of the refund was N4.02 billion.
The Oyo State Government received N7.9 billion from the Paris Club refunds released by the Federal Government.
Tamwakat Weli, the Commissioner of Finance, while briefing newsmen in Jos, said 60.06 per cent of the sum, totaling N3.39 billion, was for the state government, while 39.94 per cent, totaling N2.25 billion, went to the 17 Local Governments
According to a communiqué issued after a crucial meeting of the NMA, signed by its State Chairman, Dr. Tokunbo Olajumoke, and Secretary, Dr. Olaleken Ajayi, the body urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to probe how Aregbesola spent the initial fund released to Osun State by the Federal Government.
The State NLC Chairman, Comrade Kabiru Minjibir, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Kano.
This brings to N2 billion the total amount of money the State Government has released to the local government councils out of the N5.1 billion it recently received as its share of the Paris Club refund from the Federal Government.