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2023: Aggrieved PDP Governors Jet off to London To Deliberate Presidential Candidate’s Choice

2023: Aggrieved PDP Governors Jet off to London To Deliberate Presidential Candidate’s Choice

The group of five governors (G-5) elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in what could be described as another jamboree, have travelled...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on the nine oil-producing states in Nigeria to give account of how they spent N625.43billion oil derivation refunds the Federal Government gave them. Recall that the federal government recently paid N625.43billion oil derivation refunds to the governors of Edo, Abia, Rivers, Ondo, Imo, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River and Delta states. The payments covered 13 percent oil derivation, subsidy and SURE-P refunds. The refunds date from 1999 to 2021. In a letter signed by its deputy director, Kolawole Oluwadare, SERAP asked the governors to “provide and widely publish details of spending of the oil derivation refunds of N625billion recently paid to them by the federal government of Nigeria, including details and locations of projects executed with the money. “We would be grateful if the recommended measures are taken within seven days of the receipt and/or publication of this letter. If we haven’t heard from you by then, SERAP shall take all appropriate legal actions to compel you and your state to comply with our request in the public interest,” SERAP’s letter reads in part.

NEWS2 years ago

N625bn Refunds: SERAP Calls On Nine Governors To Give Accounts

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on the nine oil-producing states in Nigeria to give account of how they spent N625.43billion oil derivation refunds...

Abia Couple Exiled For Allegedly Killing 25-year-old Stepson

Crime2 years ago

Abia Couple Exiled For Allegedly Killing 25-year-old Stepson

A couple from Umuokpulor Abayi in the Osisioma Local Government Area of Abia State, identified as Mr. Emmanuel Onyenweaku Nwankpa and Mrs. Happiness, have been...

NEWS2 years ago

Dirtiest States In Nigeria Emerge (Check List)

Six states; Abia, Borno, Edo, Kebbi, Kogi and Ondo have been ranked dirtiest among states in Nigeria. Six others also emerged as leading regional examples...

Abuja Court Sacks Abia APC Gov Candidate

Politics2 years ago

Abuja Court Sacks Abia APC Gov Candidate, Party Reacts

Dr. Uchechukwu Ogah, a former minister of state for the development of mines and steel, was recognized on Friday by a Federal High Court in Abuja...

NEWS2 years ago

Police Arrest Soldier for stabbing 34-year-old trader to death in Abia

By Funmilayo Olusanya Saeed Sabo, a private soldier with the Nigerian Army’s 82nd Division in Enugu, has been held by police for allegedly fatally stabbing...

Angry youths set Mortuary ablaze in Abia

NEWS2 years ago

Angry youths set Mortuary ablaze in Abia

Youths from Ndiolumbe in Abia State’s Isiala Ngwa South local government area have allegedly set a local morgue on fire. Following multiple allegations of missing organs...