2016 has started on a good note for Chika Ike as she declared on her Facebook time line.
The delectable actress was at NAFDAC headquarters in Abuja and shared photos of her meeting with the Director General of the agency, Paul Orhii.
Chika Ike
New project alert. 2016 is definitely a good year. Business . # newprojectalert
A former All Progressives Congress, APC chieftain, Tom Ikimi has been answering questions at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in Abuja over his alleged role in the mismanagement of the $2.1b arms procurement fund.
Ikimi who defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the run up to the 2015 Presidential election was fingered in the $2.1b scandal.
According to Sahara Reporters, Ikimi was quizzed for a couple of days but was allowed to go home at the end of each day because of the condition of his health.
A panel investigating multiple salary payments in the Federal Civil Service has indicted 23,306 civil servants as ghost workers.
The panel recommended some banks for further investigation. Already, the Federal Government has started deleting some of the indicted names from its payroll.
According to a reliable source, the ghost workers were discovered after government adopted the Bank Verification Number, BVN for salary payments.
“Out of the accounts of about 312,000 civil servants processed so far, the ministry was said to have uncovered irregularities in the account of about 23,306 of them, who were suspected to have been collecting double salary.
“These indicted individuals are in two categories. In the first group, we found out that the names of some civil servants, whose salaries are being processed, are different from the names on the accounts where their salaries are paid. What this means is either those in this category are drawing salary from two sources (which could be different agencies), or they are ghost workers,” said the source.
It was also discovered that some of the payments have been going into dormant accounts.
Some banks are now being investigated for their roles in the scam.
A source disclosed that some of the dormant accounts are domiciled in a particular branch of a certain bank. Indeed, about 300 salary accounts were opened in one day and all have become dormant.
Abujacitynews gathered that government decided to adopt the BVN for payment of salaries after the Integrated Payroll Personnel Information System, IPPIS proved ineffective in eliminating ghost workers in the federal civil service.
All Progressives Congress, APC bigwig, Temi Harriman has denied claims by an online publication (not Abujacitynews) that she owns a property in Dubai, the business nerve center of the United Arab Emirates.
She said that she has neither been to the UAE nor made any investment there. The online publication had listed Harriman as one of the prominent APC members who have acquired properties in Dubai.
“It was at first easy to dismiss the report about my being among some prominent Nigerians with real estate investment in Dubai as I had never before heard of the internet medium that carried the false news.
“However, repeated enquiries by concerned friends, associates and supporters have made me to formally respond to this hogwash framed by some charlatans.
“I have never been to Dubai, I do not have any investments in that side of the world and I for the records affirm that the entirety of the story as concerning me is totally untrue and should be ignored,” she said.
Posts
All Comments
