NIGERIA another N35billion missing says House of Reps

According to a report by Punch, the House of Reps yesterday March 14th uncovered another missing N35billion. Read the full report below...

More revelations by the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts indicated on Thursday that the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation could not account for N35bn it collected from the Service Wide Vote within nine years.

While the records of the Budget Office of the Federation showed that the OHSF received N52bn between 2004 and 2012, the Permanent Secretary, Mr. Remi Adelakun, admitted only N17.6bn.

The committee, which is chaired by Mr. Solomon Olamilekan, insisted on Thursday that Adelakun must explain how the N35bn was spent.

At Thursday’s session, the permanent secretary and officials of the budget office had disagreed over how much the latter released to the OHSF.

The records of the budget office showed that in continue......

CANAN Says Boko Haram Attacks Worsening Refugee Situation In Nigeria, i s Nigeria now a refugee nation??

 

 

By Saharareporters, New York

Nigerian-American Christians, under the umbrella of the Christian Association of Nigerian-Americans (CANAN), on Wednesday called on the Nigerian government to do its utmost to care for refugees spilling out of the country as the Boko Haram attacks in northern Nigeria grow in intensity.
In a statement in New York by its Executive Director, Pastor Laolu Akande, CANAN called attention to the increasing frustration of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) over the situation.
“CANAN is concerned that the federal government of Nigeria and the governments of the affected states are not doing enough to cater for the refugee situation that have been created by the Boko Haram situation,” the statement stated.
Equally CANAN stated that what is being reported in the media regarding the current welfare package of the Nigerian soldiers in the forefront of the terrorism fight against Boko Haram “very disheartening,” and “must be urgently improved.”
It drew attention to the statement by UNHCR on Tuesday in which the agency said it was increasingly alarmed at the humanitarian impact of continuing violence in northeastern Nigeria and stressed the importance of protecting civilians.
The UN agency statement noted, “newly arrived refugees interviewed by UNHCR staff in Niger have spoken of atrocities on the islands and shores of Lake Chad continue........

Germany, Nigerian who lives in Germany protest against the government.

Nigerians in Germany yesterday March 10, protested against the Nigerian government financial recklessness and insecurity in the country. The protest took place on Neue Jakobstrasse, the street that lodges the Nigerian embassy.

The protest which started by 10am had the German police on ground all through the protest which lasted for four hours. Continue...

Fliers which served as cahier de doleance were distributed to passers-by and the embassy callers. The fliers read:

“168 Million Nigerians are under siege. At the mercy of a reckless, fascist government that has made corruption its deadly official policy. The Nigerian people demand sanctions and travel bans on political officers and global attention to the economic terrorism. There are