Obagah Izuagie The suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Betta Edu, was on Monday denied access to President Bola Tinubu after her suspension from office. Edu in her last minute effort to save her job rushed to the Villa but was denied access to the President. A reliable source at the Villa told TheHintsNews that the embattled Edu was bluntly denkrd access to the president. President Tinubu had earlier on Monday directed Edu be suspended over the alleged transfer of N585 million to a private account. TheHintsNews reports that Edu has been in the eye of the storm since…
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Halimat Ibrahim President Bola Tinubu has suspended the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Betta Edu over alleged transfer of N585 million to a private account. TheHintsNews reports that Edu has been in the eye of the storm since last Friday after a memo surfaced where she directed the Accountant-General of the Federation, Oluwatoyin Madein, to transfer N585 million to a private account owned by one Oniyelu Bridget, who the ministry claimed currently serves as the Project Accountant, Grants for Vulnerable Groups. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale in a statement issued…
Akin Akinola The Supreme Court has upheld the election of Hyacinth Alia as the governor of Benue State. The Apex Court on Monday in Abuja dismissed the appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate in the Benue governorship election, Titus Uba. TheHintsNews reports that the governorship election petition tribunal and the court of appeal in Abuja had affirmed the election of Alia as governor. Uba, who was not satisfied with the judgement, approached the apex court for redress. The Supreme court judgement has however laid the legal battle to rest.
Akin Akinola The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called for the immediate sack and prosecution of the embattled Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Betta Edu over the alleged looting of N44 billion National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA) fund, including the N585.2 million audaciously diverted by her to a private account. The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Debo Ologunagba in a statement issued Sunday said the exposed fraud in the ministry was just a tip of the iceberg of the unprecedented treasury looting, unbridled stealing and plundering of resources going on in the President Bola Tinubu-led All Progressives Congress (APC)…
Adeniyi Adedeji President Bola Tinubu has ordered the probe of the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Betta Edu over alleged transfer of N585 million to a private account. TheHintsNews reports that Edu has been in the eye of the storm since last Friday after a memo surfaced where she directed the Accountant-General of the Federation, Oluwatoyin Madein, to transfer N585 million to a private account owned by one Oniyelu Bridget, who the ministry claimed currently serves as the Project Accountant, Grants for Vulnerable Groups. However, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, in a statement issued…
Halimat Ibrahim The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural and political organisation, Afenifere, has outlined some steps for the federal government to tackle in order to tackle the heightniing in in the country. In a statement issued Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Jare Ajayi, Afenifere said that the need to tame the monster was compelling as unchecked terrorism in any part of the country was putting pressures on other parts of the country hitherto considered as safe. He added that the immediate reason for this new call were the terror acts unleashed on Plateau, Benue, Kogi, Borno, Sokoto, Niger, Ondo, Katsina, Rivers States…
Akin akinola The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a female supplier of ammunition to bandits, Bilkisu Suleman. The 28-year-old suspect came top on the list of 12 other suspects arrested by NDLEA operatives in new year interdiction operations in Kaduna, Lagos, Niger, Kogi, Kano, Borno, and Osun states. Bilkisu was arrested on Wednesday 3rd January by NDLEA officers on patrol along Zaria Kano expressway in possession of 249 rounds of 7.62mm live ammunition concealed in a black nylon bag kept in her ladys handbag. NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, in a statement issued Sunday…
Halimat Ibrahim Niger Delta Progressive Youths League has expressed dismay over the campaign of calumny, media brigandism, and unnecessary blackmail against the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu. The group in a statement issued Saturday by its National President, Comrade Ebiegberi Jonathan said the the group was not oblivious of the fact that the fictitious articles sparsely circulated by a few patronizers of yellow journalism, maliciously linking Edu to the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA) financial misappropriation. It described it as a diversionary antic by a set of individuals who are irked by Edu’s transparency…
Akin Akinola A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara has urged President Bola Tinubu not to toe the ignoble path of his predecessors who only mourned victims of killings in press statements, thereby reducing themselves to mourners-in-chief instead of taking responsibility as commanders-in-chief. Dogara gave the advice when he led some serving and former members of the House on a condolence visit to Governor Caleb Mutfwang on Saturday in Jos, Plateau State over the recent massacre of about 200 people in Bokkos and Barkin Ladi local government areas. He urged the President to rise to the…
Adeniyi Adedeji The Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), Dr. Oluwatoyin Madein, has clarified that the OAGF does not make payments on behalf of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) for projects and programmes implemented by the MDAs. Madein, in a statement issued Saturday by the Director of Press, Bawa Mokwa stated this while reacting to media reports concerning a request from the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation to pay grants to vulnerable groups in some States of the Federation. She stated that allocations are released to self-accounting MDAs in line with the budget, and such MDAs are responsible for…