The Senate Committee on Public Procurement has taken a hard stance against federal ministries, departments, and agencies that ignore its invitations or fail to submit required accountability reports, announcing an immediate suspension of their procurement activities. The committee Chairman, Senator Olajide Ipinshagba, disclosed this at a press briefing in Abuja on Friday, revealing that several government bodies had repeatedly failed …

Several ministries and agencies under the present administration of President Bola Tinubu, have spent no less than N1.8 billion on air tickets, estacodes, and duty tour allowances between July and September 2024, according to data sourced from GovSpend. Some of the ministries and agencies include the Federal Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Police Affairs, the Ministry of Youth Development, …

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has assigned portfolios to his motley crowd of ministers. Close to 50 ministers in a depressed economy calls for jeers, not cheers. This is not to mention the plethora of advisers and assistants, each of them with their own retinue of aides, all with tantalizing perquisites of office. One is bound to query whether, truly, this …