He spoke at the presentation of the All Progressives’ Congress flags to the flag bearers in the upcoming elections.
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A civic-tech organisation, BudgIT, has called for an immediate release of a transparency and accountability plan to ensure that President Bola Tinubu’s promises are fulfilled.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the OGP is a multilateral initiative that aims to secure concrete commitments from national and sub-national governments to promote open government, empower citizens, fight corruption, and harness new technologies to strengthen governance
Ezekwesili, also a former presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria in 2019, made the call on Wednesday while speaking at a webinar, tagged: “Fix Politics.”
The President had in paragraph 78 of his speech to mark the occasion of the Democracy Day on June 12, 2020, stated: “The government has recovered looted funds in excess of N800 billion. These monies are being ploughed into development and infrastructure projects.”
INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, represented by Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, made the call on Friday at a virtual workshop on reversed “INEC Communication Policy”.
NEITI gave the commendation in a statement signed by its Director of Communications, Dr. Orji Ogbonnaya Orji, in Abuja on Tuesday.
With the Federal Government looking to generate more revenue from the ports, a key government agency, the Nigerian Ports Authority, was entrusted to Hadiza Bala Usman, who, at the time, promised to make NPA a model agency. After three years in the saddle, Usman spoke exclusively to Eromosele Abiodun of THISDAY Newspaper on how she has turned the NPA around and entrenched transparency and accountability, and her crusade against entrenched interests working against NPA. Excerpts:
Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission, has urged the National Assembly to remove the secrecy surrounding its budget for the sake of transparency.
My friends and professional colleagues have been asking why I ventured into politics due to my level of integrity, transparency, fairness and commitment to human development which is very rear in the current political atmosphere of our dear countr
Afam Osigwe, former General Secretary, Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has called for more transparency in the process leading to the forthcoming bar election to ensure a credible poll.
Enang stated this when lawyers from Akwa Ibom, under the auspices of Akwa Ibom Lawyers Forum, visited him in Abuja.
In one of his earlier outings within the period under review, precisely when officers of the Nigerian Navy were on a four-week training programme on financial management at the Federal Treasury Academy, Orozo, Abuja, Idris urged the accountants and finance officers in government establishments, including those in the military to strictly comply with government financial regulations, adding that it was the only way to avoid humiliations in and after the public service.