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A Non-Profit Organization (NPO) BudgIT has discovered 316 duplicated capital projects in the 2021 budget. The civic-tech non-profit organisation, which advocates for transparency and accountability in public finance in Nigeria, stated this in a statement on its Twitter handle While speaking on BudgIT’s recent publication, “Demanding Budget Reforms for Resource Optimization”, Gabriel Okeowo, BudgIT’s CEO, said: “Our investigations into the 2021 budget revealed at least 316 duplicated capital projects worth N39.5billion, with 115 of those duplicate projects occurring in the Ministry o...

[FILES] Obaseki. Photo; TWITTER/GOVERNOROBASEKI Members of the community where I live did not start a vigilante group because the Nigerian minister of Defence asked us to protect ourselves. We decided to over the spate of robberies we were experiencing in our community in Benin City. The nature of these robberies resembles the kind perpetrated on residents by Boko Haram – they are directed at the vulnerable and women. Sometimes, they are regular and at other times irregular, depending on the time of day and depending on the level of vigilante observed by residents. When the criminals observ...

BY PAT UTOMI If one lesson comes clear from 2020 it is that democracy is in deep crisis in Nigeria where questions abound about the state of the social compact between the people and those who lead and personify the state. Impunity seems so rife the youth mounted peaceful protests on police brutality and were greeted with bullets from the army; people feel the benefits of good governance are eluding them, with poverty so pervasive and insecurity so threatening; and anxiety prevails as Nigeria enters a second recession in five years. What is the state of our democracy and how can we redeem it?

He found to have lie to the fbi and lied to the vice president and mr. trump and chief of staff, mr. priebus and they pointed to some reason why he wanted to be defending general flynn and light of his statements to the fbi. >> the documents that were tied to the michael flynn plea deal implicates jared kushner, the president's son-in-law, carjacking officials from russia of how they would vote to influence those governments to delay the vote or defeat the resolution. this is tied to that u.n. security vote on israelis settlements. we learned the person that instructed flynn to have conversati...

The inauguration, but since then he's come to rely on the u.n. security council in particular to deliver the economic sanctions which were a key part of the u.s. strategy to contain north korea. that said, more and more particularly in the last 24 hours you have soirl officials saying diplomacy may have run its course. >> resolution let them speak for themselves. >> reporter: after unanimous security vote to tighten he can many no iks sanctions on the north, trump officials say their patience for diplomacy is running short. >> we wanted to be responsible and go through all diplomatic means to ...