Tag: CISLAC

Tompolo: ‘NNPC promoting criminality with N48bn surveillance contract’ CISLAC boss

Aminu Imam

The Executive Director of the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, has condemned the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) for awarding an N48 billion surveillance contract to an ex-militant, Government Ekpemupolo, better known as Tompolo. The CISLAC boss, who made this known in an issued statement yesterday, queried whether the value of the investments and allocations made from the national treasury to the numerous security paraphernalia in Nigeria if an ex-militant is seen to be more competent to deliver on security issues than the entire armed…

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“Were baffled Adamu, Ngige remain in office despite ASUU logjam” Rafsanjani

Aminu Imam

The Executive Director, Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, (CISLAC), Auwal Ibrahim Rafsanjani, has bemoaned handlers of Nigerias education system for hanging on despite the closure of federal universities for the past six months. Rafsanjani, who spoke at the weekend in Kano, during a journalists training on: Prioritising anti-corruption and accountability issues during the upcoming 2023 elections, declared ASUU industrial action as legitimate steps to revamp University education. Rafsanjani said, It is only in Nigeria that universities are closed for 6 months and people who are in charge of education are…

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Nigeria drops 5 places to rank 154 on Corruption Perception Index

Aminu Imam

The 2021 Corruption Perception Index, (CPI), published by Transparency International, (TI), has revealed that Nigeria dropped five places. In the index released yesterday, which was made known by the Executive Director, CISLAC, Auwal Ibrahim Rafsanjani, during a press conference in Abuja, TI and Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, (CISLAC), indicated that Nigeria ranked 154 out of 180 countries. According to Rafsanjani, the index revealed that Nigeria scored 24 out of 100 points in the 2021 CPI, taking the nation five steps down from the 149th position it scored in 2019.…

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Persons living with HIV slam CISLAC over N8.5bn contract allegation

Ishaku Yohanna

The Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria has berated the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre over a report that Nigeria loses N8.5 billion every time the National Agency for the Control of AIDS procures HIV/AIDS drugs through private contractors. The National Coordinator of NEPWHAN, Abdulkadir Ibrahim, said this in a statement on Friday while berating CISLAC for what it described as a false report. CISLAC Executive Director, Auwal Musa aka Rafsanjani, had called on the authorities to investigate faceless contractors and their relationship with the leadership of NEPWHAN…

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Governors security votes more than Military, Police budgets in last five years – CISLAC

Ishaku Yohanna

Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) has called for security reform to end spate of insecurity across the Nigeria, lamenting that state governors security votes, which is put at N208.8bn annually outweighs the annual budget of police, army, as well as air force and navy combined in the last five years. According to CISLAC, for Nigeria to get out of the current security challenges, the country must embrace a security reform, where security votes are channelled directly to funding the security agencies, rather than being stolen by state executives. Executive…

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