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Humanitarian Ministry Probe: EFCC recovers another $445,000, N3bn

April 15, 2024April 15, 2024 Jide Ige

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC said on Sunday it has freshly recovered $445,000 and N3bn in the ongoing probe of the scandal in the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs. The EFCC spokesman, Dele Oyewale, disclosed that the $445,000 and N3bn were recovered between March and April in addition to N30bn earlier recovered before March, which the EFCC Chairman, Olu Olukoyede, referenced in an interview. Oyewale said, “The interview with the commission’s chairman, which was recently released, was done mid-March, and as at that time, the N30bn was what had been…

Buhari’s female ministers enmeshed in N206bn budget padding scandal

November 22, 2022 Benjamin Chukwudaalu, Political Reporter

President Muhammadu Buhari’s female ministers are at loggerheads as the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, blamed the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, for adding N206bn to the humanitarian ministry’s budget. Farouq, who appeared before the Senate Committee on Special Duties on Monday to defend the 2023 budget, claimed that the ministry requested some projects for the North East Development Commission and the National Social Safety Net Project in the 2022 budget, which were not released, but was surprised to see an inflated amount in…