Tag: Ahmed Idris

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

Aminu Imam

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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We spent over N31 billion in four months to fight COVID-19 – FG

Ishaku Yohanna

The Federal Government of Nigeria has disclosed that it “spent N30,540,563,571.09, representing 84% of the N36.3 billon public funds and donations received to respond to COVID-19 between 1st April, 2020 and 31st July, 2020, leaving the balance of N5.9 billion.” In response to a freedom of information (FoI) request by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and Connected Development (CODE), Ahmed Idris, Accountant-General of the Federation, said the amount spent represents 84 percent of N36.3 billion COVID-19 donations received from April to July. In a letter signed by Kolawole…

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