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The Nigerian government remains committed to strengthening the country's fight against financial crime and corruption, a top official said Thursday. Speaking at a regional conference on the whistleblower policy in Nigeria in Lagos, the nation's economic hub, Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning, said the fight against…

The Coordinator of the centre, Chido Onumah disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja during the public presentation of the report of a survey on five years of the whistle-blowing policy in Nigeria.

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The exercise, which is the last the Ministry of Finance would hold, is meant to verify ex-workers of the defunct Nigeria Airways who had genuine claims but were yet to be paid. Addressing the ex-workers, the Director of PICA, Bashir Harisu Mohammed, restated that the exercise was in furtherance of the federal government’s determination to ensure that all former public workers, especially those of liquidated agencies, who had genuine and legitimate claims were not denied of such. Mohammed said PICA, which is a Federal Ministry of Finance department, is responsible for conducting the verifica...