COVID-19: NCDC reports more deaths, 1398 new infections in Nigeria
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The health agency disclosed this via its verified Twitter account on Wednesday night.
The centre also confirmed nine new deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the nation’s death toll to 1,382.
It added that the new infections were recorded from 22 States and the Federal Capital Territory, in the last 24 hours.
It disclosed that Lagos recorded the highest toll with 542 cases followed by FCT 131.
NCDC tweeted, “1,398 new cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria:
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A former Commissioner for Finance in Imo State, Prof. Uche Uwaleke has advised states across the country to adopt whistle blowing, treasury single account (TSA) and International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) mechanisms, among others to plug leakages in their internally generated revenue (IGR) pool.
Uwaleke lamented that most state governments have not been able to generate revenue sufficient to cater to recurrent spending let alone capital expenditure, noting that in 2019, for example, states’ IGR represented just about 21 per cent of total revenue with the bulk of nearly 60 per cent coming from the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) distribution.
A former Commissioner for Finance in Imo State, Prof. Uche Uwaleke, has advised states across the country
to adopt whistle blowing, treasury single account (TSA) and International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) mechanisms, among others to plug leakages in their internally generated revenue (IGR) pool.
Uwaleke lamented that most state governments have not been able to generate revenue sufficient to cater for recurrent spending let alone capital expenditure, noting that in 2019, for example, states’ IGR represented just about 21 per cent of total revenue with the bulk of nearly 60 per cent coming from the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) distribution.
In a paper on ‘’Enhancing IGR in States’’, which he made available to THISDAY, Uwaleke who is also the President of the Capital Market Academics of Nigeria and a former Head, Department of Banking and Finance, Nasarawa State University, observed that sub national governments in Nigeria comprise state