Nigeria’s N10.4trn fuel subsidy spending can build, equip 38 units World Class 500-bed hospitals – Checks

The Nigerian Government has spent a whooping N10.413 trillion on fuel subsidy between 2006 and 2019, a period of 14 years, an amount less than what it required to construct and fully equip 38 units of 500-bed World Class Hospitals, checks by Platforms Africa has revealed. The country’s Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who said this at a media briefing in Abuja, country’s administrative capital, maintained that the quantum of fund spent subsidising petroleum products during that period translated to an average of N743.8 billion per annum.…

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Union Bank staff arraigned over alleged N80m fraud + Why EFCC wanted him Jailed

The Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has arraigned Kola Oduwole, an employee of Union Bank, for an alleged fraud involving the sum of N80 million. Oduwole was brought before Justice Musa Danladi of the Katsina State High Court by the Kano Zonal Office of the EFCC on six counts bordering on forgery and fraud. Oduwole was alleged to have forged signatures of the Relationship Manager of the bank on three fixed deposit certificates, presented same to some customers and subsequently got customers to deposit their funds…

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Nigeria’s Ogun State fixes September 21 for Primary, Secondary Schools’ reopening

  Nigeria’s Ogun State has announced Monday, 21 September, 2020 for the reopening of primary and secondary schools for the first term of 2020/2021 session. This, which is in addition to the earlier resumption of students in SS3 who are currently writing the West African School Certificate Examination, however come with new schedule of staggered time frame for academic activities. Governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun, in a statement signed his Chief Press Secretary, Kunle Somorin, stated that the second phase of the reopening of schools is extended to all…

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