The Independent Corrupt Practices (and other related offenses) Commission has commenced tracking over 70 executive and constituency projects worth 7.3 billion naira across Borno State.A Principal Superintendent with the Borno State office of the Commission, Abubakar Gujja, revealed this to newsmen noting that the project tracking exercise is on the behest of the Chairman of the Commission, Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, at the Maiduguri Dental and Eye Hospital exercise on Monday.According to him, the chairman is not alone in this initiative;...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Veterinary Research Institute, the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital, the Pandemic Sciences Institute at the University of Oxford, the United Kingdom Public Health Rapid Support Team, and stakeholders in Lagos and Rivers states, have launched a multi-disciplinary research project to address the knowledge gaps on m pox.The mpox research project Epidemiological and clinical investigation of mpox in Nigeria: A multi-disciplinary research project to inform case management and outbreak prevention and...
The Federal Government has said it is projecting 26.01 trillion naira as expenses for the 2024 fiscal year.This is as it approved the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework for 2024 to 2026.The FG affirmed that the administration would maintain the January to December budget implementation cycle as President Bola Tinubu would soon present the 2024 appropriation bill to the National Assembly to ensure its ratification before December 31, 2023.The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Abubakar Bagudu, told State House Correspondents after...