Liberian president slashes own salary by 40%
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Liberian President, Joseph Boakai, has announced a voluntary 40 per cent reduction in his salary.
This was disclosed in a statement shared on the website of the Liberian Government on Saturday which said the move aligned with Boakai’s commitment to fiscal integrity and national financial security.
This is coming days after some lawmakers arrived at the parliament in tricycles popularly known as ‘Keke’ in protest against the non-payment of funds for their vehicles by the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning.
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Cholera: Ogun threatens to shut dirty markets
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Ogun State Government has threatened to shut down any market found guilty of improper waste disposal and a dirty environment.
This, it said, would be done in the overriding public interest, especially at this period when the country is grappling with the outbreak of cholera
The Special Adviser to the governor, who doubles as the Managing Director of the Ogun State Waste Management Authority, Abayomi Hunye, handed out the threat during a meeting on Friday with the executive and members of the Ogun State Association of Market Men and Women in Abeokuta, the state capital.
Court orders Buhari’s minister to account for N729bn payment to poor Nigerians
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The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered a former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disasters Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, to account for payments of N729bn to 24.3 million poor Nigerians for six months.
The court also ordered the former minister to provide the list and details of the beneficiaries who received the payments, the number of states covered, and the payments per state.
The judgment was delivered in June by Justice Deinde Isaac Dipeolu following a Freedom of Information suit number: FHC/L/CS/853/2021, brought by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project.
National grid fully restored after collapse – TCN
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The Transmission Company of Nigeria on Sunday said the national power grid has been restored following Saturday’s collapse.
The TCN Public Affairs General Manager, Ndidi Mbah described the collapse as partial, saying that “there was a partial disturbance of the grid at about 15.09Hrs yesterday, 6th July 2024.”
According to her, the incident “brings to three, the partial grid disturbances, with one total disturbance this year.”