The Chief Executive Officer of United Nigeria Airlines, Obiora Okonkwo, has refuted allegations of indebtedness to the federal government regarding the repayment of COVID-19 grants. In an earlier report, the House of Representatives had a few days ago, asked the airlines to account for how they spent the intervention fund or return same to the federal purse. Okonkwo, who gave …

The House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee has issued a one-week deadline to all private airline operators in the country to account for the sum of N4 billion given to them by the Federal Government to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic or refund same in the absence of justifiable evidence of how the amount was spent. The committee, chaired by a …

There is a viral video where human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana made allusion to N135 billion given to the 36 states in December 2023. He spoke at a memorial event in honour of Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti. It is important to state here that Falana has a strong reputation for exaggerations and embellishments. What the Lagos lawyer rendered in that …

The Public Accounts Committee of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, directed the Federal Fire Service to refund the sum of N1.48 billion within a week to the Federation Account, being the intervention funds it received for the COVID-19 health epidemic but which it cannot account for. The Bamidele Salam-led committee issued the directive on Wednesday following the failure of …

The Public Accounts Committee of the House of Representatives has directed the Ministry of Health to return to the federal government the N10 billion meant for the production of COVID-19 vaccines which was not utilised. This followed a motion moved by Bassey Akiba (LP, Cross Rivers) after the non-appearance of officials of the ministry at its investigative hearing yesterday. Akiba …

The House of Representatives, on Wednesday, issued a 72-hour ultimatum to the Accountant General of the Federation, Mrs Oluwatoyin Madein, to submit a detailed report on the use of the N100 billion COVID-19 intervention funds approved and released by the government of former President Muhammadu Buhari to ministries, departments and agencies between 2020 and 2022. The Chairman of House Committee …

Superflux International Limited has dismissed the reports that it printed ballot papers for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the last general elections. In a statement by its Managing Director/CEO, Mr. Gabriel Okonkwo, the company also said that it did not print any extra ballot papers to compromised the election, as being widely reported. The company admitted its association with …