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BudgIT Questions Ocean & Marine Institute’s Unusual Budget Allocations
Nigerians, just when you think you’ve seen everything!
The Nigerian Institute of Oceanography and Marine Research (@NiomrLagos) has been allocated over N5 billion for road construction. Additionally, it plans to spend N1.5 billion on streetlights and over N300 million on distributing tricycles and motorcycles.
What does ocean and marine research have to do with building roads and distributing tricycles?
SHareGunmen Kidnap 11 Family Members, Including Journalist’s Wife and Daughters, in Kaduna In Kaduna State, gunmen have kidnapped 11 family members, including Aminat, the wife of Kogi-based journalist Muhammed Bashir, and their two daughters, Aisha and Hajara. The family had arrived in Kaduna on Thursday for a holiday. Muhammed Bashir, a correspondent with the […]
SHareFemale captives cry out as bandits threaten to marry them off FCGs reports the agony of four female captives including a student of the Zamfara State College of Arts and Science, abducted by bandits. These students have raised an alarm over their captors’ threat to marry them off if their parents fail to pay a […]
SHareList of Ex-Governors Who Are New ‘godfathers’ In Their States FCG reports thatThe Human Rights Watch in a report titled ‘Corruption, Godfatherism and the Funding of Political Violence,’ observed that “godfathers are not mere financiers of political campaigns; rather (they) are individuals whose power stems not just from wealth but from their ability to manipulate […]