The Minister of State for Education, Tanko Sununu, has written the Ministry of Finance over the withheld salaries of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU); and the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) of Nigerian Universitie and Allied Institutions. In a letter dated 11 July 2024, addressed to the Minister of Finance and the Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale …

The Ministry of Finance has failed to release the sum of N4.9 billion meal subsidy for 112 Federal Unity Colleges (FUCs)across the country. According to The PUNCH, this was discovered through sources within the Federal Civil Service alongside multiple letters written by the Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman, to his finance counterpart, Wale Edun. Findings revealed that the finance ministry …

The House of Representatives Committee on Public Assets has queried the Ministry of Finance Incorporated (MOFI) for taking money from the budget without authorisation for its operations. The chairman of the Committee, Hon Ademorin Kuye, issued the query when the agency’s Managing Director, Dr Armstrong Takang, appeared before it on Tuesday to give an account of their activities. The Committee, …

The Federal Ministry of Finance has recovered over N57 billion from the N5.2 trillion debts owed by ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) to the Federal Government. The Director of Special Projects, Federal Ministry of Finance, Aisha Omar, disclosed this in Enugu on Tuesday, during a one-day workshop on the Federal Government Debt Recovery Drive, through the Project Lighthouse Programme for …

In line with the new tenure limit introduced for directors in the Federal Civil Service, the Federal Ministry of Finance has asked its directors who have spent eight years in the directorate cadre to tender their notices for early retirement. A memo signed by the Director of Administration of the ministry, Mariya Rufai, which was dated 3rd August 2023, was …