Tag: AGF

Judges salary, allowance: AGF, NJC, RMAFC, others back proposed 300% increase

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Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), yesterday, supported the proposed 300 percent increase in the salaries and allowances of judicial office holders in the country by President Bola Tinubu. The National Judicial Council (NJC), Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), and the Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Allocation Commission (RMAFC), among others, also endorsed the proposal. The bodies and other critical stakeholders spoke during a one-day public hearing on a Bill, titled: A Bill for an Act to Prescribe the Salaries and Allowances and Fringe Benefit of…

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Senate panel indicts AGF over unbudgeted N74bn social benefit

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The Senate has sustained the indictment of Accountant-General of the Federation for paying N74 billion as social benefits without a breakdown in the 2016 budget. The Auditor-General of the Federation in the 2016 report had raised concern over the payment of N262.4 billion as social benefits against the N188 billion provided for in the budget resulting in extra-budgetary payment of N74 billion without breakdown. The query reads: The total cost for social benefits amounted to N262.3 billion, whereas the budget amount for the period was N188 billion as contained in…

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N109.5bn Fraud: How suspended Accountant-General, Idris compromised TSA, IPPIS, for personal gains EFCC

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) yesterday revealed fresh facts on how former Accountant-General of the Federation, (AGF), Ahmed Idris, compromised the Treasury Single Account, (TSA), Government Integrated Financial Management Information System, (GIFMIS), Integrated Payroll and Personnel information system, (IPPIS), and carted away billions of naira belonging to the Government. EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, made the revelation in an issued statement yesterday, in Abuja. Idris and his co-defendants: Godfrey Olusegun Akindele and Mohammed Kudu Usman are standing trial in an N109 billion fraud case before Justice A. O. Adeyemi…

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Just In! 2023: Federal High Court strikes down Section 84 (12) of amended new Electoral Act declares section unconstitutional, invalid illegal

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Orders AGF to delete section from Electoral Act The Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia has today struck down Section 84(12) of the newly amended Electoral Act which President Muhammadu Buhari had written to the National Assembly to delete. The court, in a judgment delivered by Justice Evelyn Anyadike, held that the section was unconstitutional, invalid, illegal, null, void and of no effect whatsoever and ought to be struck down as it cannot stand when it is in violation of the clear provisions of the Constitution. Recall that President Muhammadu…

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Constitution Amendment: NASS splits office of Justice Minister from AGF

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Independent candidates can now contest without primaries The Joint Senate and House of Representatives Committee on Constitution Review has approved the separation of the office of the Minister of Justice from that of the Attorney-General of the Federation, (AGF), as part of the recommended amendments to the 1999 Constitution. The matter and about 54 other proposed amendments are expected to be tabled before the legislative arm by the end of this month. If it is passed by the two chambers and endorsed by at least two-thirds of 36 State Houses…

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Buhari acts within statutory power to re-appoint AGF Ngige

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President Muhammadu Buhari has not contravened any law by reappointing Ahmed Idris, as the Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has said. Ngige said this on Friday while addressing journalists after a meeting with Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Buhari had re-appointed Idris in June 2019 for a second four-year term after reaching the statutory retirement age of 60, a development labour unions have been raising over its legality. But the minister said on Friday that the president only exercised his constitutional powers.…

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