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The Oracle Today Comment Buhari: The Long-absence President
NIGERIANS are not asking the right questions. It is no longer enough to ask where the President is. Nor is it adequate to know that the President is in the presidential residence in Abuja. Things passed those stages long ago. We are in a new era with the Muhammadu Buhari Presidency. It is important that people
This is not about the President working from his home or office: It is about who the President of Nigeria is, today. understand it in that manner and appreciate where the country is heading with all the uncertainties that such a Presidency creates. This is not about whether the President is working from
his home or office – it is about who the President of Nigeria is. The question may have to be asked so pointedly if we
are to get an answer. Nigerians have gone into the default mode with the
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Financial scandal hits Aids Corps • N654m allegedly misappropriated •FG may scrap TAC • Allegations false, mischievious –DG TAC From TONY AILEMEN, Abuja
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put the money in fixed deposit accounts to earn some interests, which, at the end of the day, are usually pocketed by the exact same privileged officials. Indeed, the agency, according to sources, has been short-changing the Federal Government to the tune of about N654, 000,000 annually in the past three years through excess budgetary provision for the allowances of volunteers. There are allegations that in the past three years, the agency has been maintaining barely 200 volunteers outside the country as against 1,400 it started with close to three decades ago. The allowances paid volunteers according the information available The Oracle Today is
HE Directorate of Technical Aids Corps (TAC), an agency under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is currently under watch by anti-graft authorities for what insiders have called ‘monumental fraud’ rocking the agency, The Oracle Today investigations have revealed. Sources who spoke with this newspaper under condition of anonymity claimed that most of the beneficiaries, what they call ‘volunteers’ in TAC parlance, have remained unpaid for very a long time now, for inexplicable reasons, a situation that has put them at the mercy of the countries of their posting. Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, (centre), with the Acting Director-General of NIPSS, Jonathan M. Juma, The reason for the delay, The mni, (fifth right), when he led members of Study Group One of Senior Executive Course No.39, 2017, of the institute Oracle Today gathered, is that on a courtesy visit to the Government House, Enugu ... during the week. superintending officials usually •Continued on Page 2
Nnamdi Kanu: CG-IPOB commends Ndigbo for ‘courageous’ action
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