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Reps frown at FG plan to build N3b houses for top officials
The House of Representatives on Thursday frowned at a plan by the federal government to built 40 houses for top Federal Government officials at a cost of N3billion. While former President Olusegun Obasanjo started a policy, where housing and car incentives to civil servants are monetised, the House therefore queried the change of policy by the present administration, arguing that the initial programme may have been jettisoned without due process. This was the position of the Herman Hembe-led House Committee on Federal Capital Territory (FCT) during its 2016/2017 budget session with the Ministry of FCT. Hembe said, “When government comes up with a policy, it should follow it up. When you begin to build houses for ministers, permanent secretaries and directors, are they above the ...
Buhari will return to London for follow-ups –Presidency
The Presidency has refuted claims in some quarters that President Muhammadu Buhari will no longer return to his London doctors for follow-up but will instead bring them down to Nigeria to attend to him. This was made known by the Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, during an interview with journalists on Thursday. Shehu, who was asked to comment on the news of the possibility of the President’s London doctors coming down to Nigeria for fellow-ups, said it was not true. He instead said the President will return to London, but refused to be specific on when that would be. “It is false news. We are not aware of the reported advance movements. The last time the President spoke about this, he said he wo...
Children Who Escaped Boko Haram Live In Shadow Of Famine
Children Who Escaped Boko Haram Live In Shadow Of Famine Danielle Villasana Refugees Deeply DANIELLE VILLASANA As severe hunger takes hold in northeast Nigeria, the U.N. estimates that nearly a half-million children under five will suffer from acute malnutrition this year, and 90,000 may die. Photojournalist Danielle Villasana tells the stories behind the devastating numbers. MAIDUGURI , NIGERIA – Izah fled her home in northeast Nigeria in 2015 when Boko Haram militants attacked her village, set her house on fire and shot her husband dead. Advertisement She is now a widow raising seven children alone in a displacement camp in Monguno, a remote town in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno State that was recaptured by the Nigerian military from Boko Haram in 2015, but was recently attacked again by the militants. Amid the famine-like conditions taking hold across parts of Borno state over the past year, lack of food led to severe acute malnu...