Tag: NSA

Senate demands explanation on N7.5bn withdrawals from NSA, Zainab Ahmed

Aminu Imam

The Chairman, Senate Public Accounts Committee, on Wednesday gave the Ministry of Finance, Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation and the Office of the National Security Adviser till Tuesday next week to explain an alleged ‘secret withdrawal of N7.5bn from the 2% National Automotive Council Design, (NADDC) and Development Council Levy Account. The account is domiciled with the Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN). The Committee had two weeks ago, while scrutinising the 2015 Auditor-General for the Federation’s report summoned the affected agencies to appear before it. The representatives of…

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$1bn Arms Fund: “Apologise or resign”, Northern professionals tell NSA

Aminu Imam

A group of Northern professionals, under the auspices of Northern Nigerian Professionals Forum (NONIP) has lambasted the National Security Adviser (NSA), Major-Gen. Babagana Monguno (rtd) over allegation of missing $1 billion funds released for the purchase of arms.  Recall that Monguno had last week, in an interview on the BBC Hausa Service, alleged that the $1billion fund approved by President Muhammadu Buhari to purchase arms to fight terrorism in the country had been allegedly missing as the consignments are yet to be delivered to Nigeria.  The group, after their 26th emergency national executive session,…

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N712bn wasted by Officials of Presidential Amnesty Programme – NSA Monguno

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The National Security Adviser to the President, retired Major General Babagana Monguno, says N712 billion has remained unaccounted for by former officials of the Presidential Amnesty Programme. Monguno stated this when he addressed State House correspondents after presenting the recently appointed interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, retired Colonel Milland Dokio, to President Muhammadu Buhari, at the State House, Abuja on Friday. He frowned at the way and manner the amnesty programme was plagued by a lot of corruption, waste and mismanagement of funds by the previous administrators. He…

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Appointment of versatile civilian NSA the panacea to insecurity, CSOs tell Buhari

Ishaku Yohanna

The African Centre for Good Governance, Social Justice and Regional Security Initiative and People United for Peace, Security and Democracy in Nigeria have called for the appointment of sound and versatile civilian National Security Adviser (NSA) against the background of insecurity ravaging the nation. While the African Centre for Good Governance, Social Justice and Regional Security Initiative commended the commitment of President Muhammadu Buhari to national security as a reference on the continent, the People United for Peace, Security and Democracy in Nigeria appealed to the President to appoint an…

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