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The Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, says it has uncovered monumental salary fraud in the Ajaokuta Steel Company.  The umbrella body of Igbo youth organisation said this in a statement made available to journalists on Friday, signed by its national president, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike. This is coming amid concerns over the state of the federal government-owned facility.  According to him, the latest discovery was one of the many alleged heists going on in the company. Okwu disclosed that a preliminary investigation carried out showed that there was a high level corruption within the company's staff recruitment process.  Ohanaeze youths said, “in our continuous drive to expose the economic sabotage and high level corruption in the Ajaokuta Steel Company, we beamed a searchlight on the company’s employment process.  “To our greatest chagrin, findings showed that staff members are not paid the same amount as outline in...

......Wants Presidency and National Assembly to Ensure More Funds For Commission To Engage In Environmental Remediation. The National Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC SouthEast has commended the leadership of Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC For it’s development strides since the inception of his leadership.  Arodiogbu, stated this whilst entertaining questions from journalists on the performance of the NDDC as well as his expectations from the creation of the South East Development Commission, SEDC.  Arodiogbu described Ogbuku as a technocrat with a visionary approach to issues of development having initiated first class projects such as the “Light Up The Niger Delta”  a number of groundbreaking road infrastructure projects spanning the nine states that make up the Niger Delta and a number of initiatives which would have turned the region around had they been implemented since it’s incepti...

Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has expressed anger over the exclusion of the entire South-East from first phase disbursement of the students loan scheme. This is coming amid outcry that tertiary institutions in region was marginalised by the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND). It could be recalled that the Federal Government, through NELFUND, announced last week that N2.9 billion had been disbursed to 27, 667 students as the first set of beneficiaries of the loan scheme across 19 tertiary institutions in the country.  The list excluded potential beneficiaries from the South-East.  In a statement made available to journalists on Tuesday, the National President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike described the development as unacceptable. Okwu, who said the reasons given by the NELFUND was unjustifiable, noted that it flies in the face of reason for the managers of the loan to state that n...

President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, on Monday, for the first time, physically met with former Resident Electoral Commissioner in Akwa Ibom State, Mr Mike Igini. The duo met at the ongoing 2024 Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Annual General Conference in Lagos. Igini, while exchanging pleasantries with Akpabio noted, " this is the first I am physically meeting with the President of the Senate, we have only been seeing on Television." Akpabio also admitted that he has never seen the former INEC chief physically till today. It would be recalled that Igini presided over the 2019 elections in Akwa Ibom State. He ordered the results of the Senatorial election of Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District, to be taken to Uyo for declaration of the winner against the Electoral Act.  Igini, presided over the declaration of the results after the figures were cancelled and results sheets mutilated in favour of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The former Akwa Ibom INEC...