Three-year-old Darasimi Ogunwunmi, a Kindergarten One pupil, who drank caustic soda left carelessly around his classroom by teachers of his private school, Fahsal Children’s School, Ilupeju Estate, Idiroko, Ogun State in November 2015, has died.
After nine months of agony, being unable to swallow either liquid or solid food and six different surgeries at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Darasimi succumbed to his injuries few days after his last surgical operation on Monday, September 12.
The last surgery was another attempt to open up the boy’s stomach and throat which had become damaged by the chemical, which he drank when he was thirsty in school.
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For Darasimi, the last days of his short life were spent in a condition his mother, Toyin, described as a living hell.
Toyin told our correspondent, “My son would have died long ago if not because of the money that kind Nigerians raised for his treatment. The money financed his surgeries and rehabilitation since that time.
“If I knew he had no chance of survival, I would have prayed that God should give him rest long ago because my son suffered for every day he lived after that incident. Every day, I saw him lying in the hospital bed or sitting at home struggling to drink ordinary water with pain, I cried bitterly.”
Saturday PUNCH had exclusively reported in January and February how the proprietor of Fahsal, Mrs. Fausat Abubakar, allegedly introduced soap making business on the school premises.
But rather than remove the production far from the reach of her pupils, the boy’s parents alleged that the soap was being produced right beside the classrooms.
On November 19, 2015, the worse happened when Darasimi became thirsty and his teachers turned a deaf ear to his incessant cry for water.
Part of the caustic soda already mixed and allegedly left around was what Darasimi drank from.
His teachers only realised what had happened when the boy was found outside his classroom crying and bleeding from the mouth, it was learnt.
The teachers applied palm oil to the boy’s mouth but rushed him to the hospital when they realised his case was critical.
Ogun government promised us justice, did nothing – Boy’s parents
After Saturday PUNCH’ s story, the Ogun State Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Modupe Mujota, said that she had constituted a team to investigate the case.
But the family explained that nothing had been done about bringing the proprietor of their son’s school to justice.
Our correspondent contacted the commissioner on Thursday to ask if anything was ever done about the boy’s case and what the outcome of the state’s investigation was.
“There was a full investigation. But because there was no hard evidence, it became difficult to take the issue up legally. We combed the premises of the school and nothing was found, probably because time had elapsed and the school might have cleaned up,” Mujota said.
When asked what step the ministry took after the completion of the investigation, she said an action was taken against the proprietor.
But the commissioner said she could not disclose details of what that action was when asked for details.
She said, “There are larger factors to be considered when you want to close down a school like the population the school is serving.”
When our correspondent finally told Mrs. Mujota that the boy was dead, she expressed surprise and said “we were not informed.”
She also said after our initial reports, the state government team had visited the family twice.
“If they say we did not visit, between when and when are they talking about? We have pictures as evidence of our team’s visit to the child and his mother. There were allegations from the school proprietor that the boy’s parents were trying to extort her. We went to verify the claim.”

The principal officers accused by Jibrin were the Speaker, Mr. Yakubu Dogara; Deputy Speaker, Mr. Yussuff Lasun; Chief Whip, Mr. Alhassan Ado-Doguwa; and Minority Leader, Mr. Leo Ogor.
Gbajabiamila, who confirmed that the decision to sack Jibrin was collectively taken by the leadership of the House, also admitted that he attended a principal officers’ meeting on Thursday, where all the officers signed a joint statement to disown Jibrin. However, he said he gave a condition before signing the statement that he would want his alleged role in the budget padding to be investigated.
He said going to the police was important to him against the backdrop of reports that he was among those sponsoring Jibrin.
In a statement on Friday, Gbajabiamila said he had called the Speaker a day before his return from a three-week break to the United States that there should be an urgent meeting address the several allegations made by Jibrin, and that at the meeting, the principal officers stated their innocence.
“A prepared text was read and we all agreed to sign. The decision to relieve Hon. Jibrin was indeed a collective decision, which I was a part of. I told them I would submit myself, on my own volition, to the police for investigation to clear my name,” the statement partly read.
Meanwhile, Jibrin has dismissed the decision of the Body of Principal Officers of the House to disown him. In a statement on Friday, Jibrin alleged that the six other principal officers he did not list in his allegations were coerced by the four to support them in order to cover up the alleged “corrupt” acts.
He stated, “I heard on good authority that contrary to what was brandished in the media as resolution of the meeting, the whole session was an extension of the grand disgraceful plan by Speaker Dogara and the three other principal officers to coerce the other members of the body of Principal Officers to come out in their defense since the speaker and the three others know very well that they are on their way to jail.
“They just want to drag as many people as possible into the matter to use it as a shield or create a situation that will compel me to implicate the six other principal officers or other people both in National Assembly and the executive arm.
“They are obviously looking for co-travellers. You can see the pattern of systematic blackmail desperately trying to drag in the Executive and the Senate. I am just too strong for them. They need more forces to fight Hon. Jibrin.”
Jibrin, who repeated his allegations, noted that till date, there had been no adequate responses by the four principal officers.
He also claimed that there were no allegations against him other than saying that he had been sacked for abusing the budget process.The principal officers accused by Jibrin were the Speaker, Mr. Yakubu Dogara; Deputy Speaker, Mr. Yussuff Lasun; Chief Whip, Mr. Alhassan Ado-Doguwa; and Minority Leader, Mr. Leo Ogor.
Gbajabiamila, who confirmed that the decision to sack Jibrin was collectively taken by the leadership of the House, also admitted that he attended a principal officers’ meeting on Thursday, where all the officers signed a joint statement to disown Jibrin. However, he said he gave a condition before signing the statement that he would want his alleged role in the budget padding to be investigated.
He said going to the police was important to him against the backdrop of reports that he was among those sponsoring Jibrin.
In a statement on Friday, Gbajabiamila said he had called the Speaker a day before his return from a three-week break to the United States that there should be an urgent meeting address the several allegations made by Jibrin, and that at the meeting, the principal officers stated their innocence.
“A prepared text was read and we all agreed to sign. The decision to relieve Hon. Jibrin was indeed a collective decision, which I was a part of. I told them I would submit myself, on my own volition, to the police for investigation to clear my name,” the statement partly read.
Meanwhile, Jibrin has dismissed the decision of the Body of Principal Officers of the House to disown him. In a statement on Friday, Jibrin alleged that the six other principal officers he did not list in his allegations were coerced by the four to support them in order to cover up the alleged “corrupt” acts.
He stated, “I heard on good authority that contrary to what was brandished in the media as resolution of the meeting, the whole session was an extension of the grand disgraceful plan by Speaker Dogara and the three other principal officers to coerce the other members of the body of Principal Officers to come out in their defense since the speaker and the three others know very well that they are on their way to jail.
“They just want to drag as many people as possible into the matter to use it as a shield or create a situation that will compel me to implicate the six other principal officers or other people both in National Assembly and the executive arm.
“They are obviously looking for co-travellers. You can see the pattern of systematic blackmail desperately trying to drag in the Executive and the Senate. I am just too strong for them. They need more forces to fight Hon. Jibrin.”
Jibrin, who repeated his allegations, noted that till date, there had been no adequate responses by the four principal officers.
He also claimed that there were no allegations against him other than saying that he had been sacked for abusing the budget process.The principal officers accused by Jibrin were the Speaker, Mr. Yakubu Dogara; Deputy Speaker, Mr. Yussuff Lasun; Chief Whip, Mr. Alhassan Ado-Doguwa; and Minority Leader, Mr. Leo Ogor.
Gbajabiamila, who confirmed that the decision to sack Jibrin was collectively taken by the leadership of the House, also admitted that he attended a principal officers’ meeting on Thursday, where all the officers signed a joint statement to disown Jibrin. However, he said he gave a condition before signing the statement that he would want his alleged role in the budget padding to be investigated.
He said going to the police was important to him against the backdrop of reports that he was among those sponsoring Jibrin.
In a statement on Friday, Gbajabiamila said he had called the Speaker a day before his return from a three-week break to the United States that there should be an urgent meeting address the several allegations made by Jibrin, and that at the meeting, the principal officers stated their innocence.
“A prepared text was read and we all agreed to sign. The decision to relieve Hon. Jibrin was indeed a collective decision, which I was a part of. I told them I would submit myself, on my own volition, to the police for investigation to clear my name,” the statement partly read.
Meanwhile, Jibrin has dismissed the decision of the Body of Principal Officers of the House to disown him. In a statement on Friday, Jibrin alleged that the six other principal officers he did not list in his allegations were coerced by the four to support them in order to cover up the alleged “corrupt” acts.
He stated, “I heard on good authority that contrary to what was brandished in the media as resolution of the meeting, the whole session was an extension of the grand disgraceful plan by Speaker Dogara and the three other principal officers to coerce the other members of the body of Principal Officers to come out in their defense since the speaker and the three others know very well that they are on their way to jail.
“They just want to drag as many people as possible into the matter to use it as a shield or create a situation that will compel me to implicate the six other principal officers or other people both in National Assembly and the executive arm.
“They are obviously looking for co-travellers. You can see the pattern of systematic blackmail desperately trying to drag in the Executive and the Senate. I am just too strong for them. They need more forces to fight Hon. Jibrin.”
Jibrin, who repeated his allegations, noted that till date, there had been no adequate responses by the four principal officers.
He also claimed that there were no allegations against him other than saying that he had been sacked for abusing the budget process.

― If you didn't kill earthworm with salt.
― If you didn't play rubber band.
― If you never bathed in the rain.
― If nobody told you about India vs Nigeria 99-1.
― If you didn't sleep on the couch and wake
up on the bed
― if u didn't throw your milk tooth on the
roof for the lizards to take it and give you new
ones.
― If you didn't just wash your hands and legs
instead of
bathing when going to school.
― If you didn't act film in uncompleted building or
under bed
with friends.
― If you never flew a kite.
- If you didn't use ur two legs to build houses
with sand.
- If u didn't write ur name on paper and insert it
into ur pen
so that no one will steal it.
- If u didn't close d fridge door really slowly to
see when d
lights went off.
- If u neva waved @ white birds expectin ur nails
to b whiter
- If u neva heard of a ghost dat stays under
mango trees @nights
- If u didn't drive a single car Tyre with a stick
and called it
ur car!
- If u didnt mix garri n sugar in ur pocket and eat
while
walking in the street.
- If u never did mama and papa play i.e. cookin
grass nd
sand witout fire.
- If you didn't play table soccer. with bottle
cover.....
.....then I guess ur Childhood wasn't fun!
Oya choose which one u do
Do you knw its not jangilova epo motor? it is
JINGLE OVER LIKE A MOTOR!! I bet u didn't knw.
Don't be shy, I didn't know either until now I am
sure 99.9 % of adults that grew up in Nigeria dnt
knw dat d nursery rhyme "sandalili sandalili" is
actually "standard living standard living". I knw u
are singing it now again, smiles ***Confess.! are
u guilty?
MY GENERATION!
MY GENERATION!!
MY GENERATION!!!

― If you didn't kill earthworm with salt.
― If you didn't play rubber band.
― If you never bathed in the rain.
― If nobody told you about India vs Nigeria 99-1.
― If you didn't sleep on the couch and wake
up on the bed
― if u didn't throw your milk tooth on the
roof for the lizards to take it and give you new
ones.
― If you didn't just wash your hands and legs
instead of
bathing when going to school.
― If you didn't act film in uncompleted building or
under bed
with friends.
― If you never flew a kite.
- If you didn't use ur two legs to build houses
with sand.
- If u didn't write ur name on paper and insert it
into ur pen
so that no one will steal it.
- If u didn't close d fridge door really slowly to
see when d
lights went off.
- If u neva waved @ white birds expectin ur nails
to b whiter
- If u neva heard of a ghost dat stays under
mango trees @nights
- If u didn't drive a single car Tyre with a stick
and called it
ur car!
- If u didnt mix garri n sugar in ur pocket and eat
while
walking in the street.
- If u never did mama and papa play i.e. cookin
grass nd
sand witout fire.
- If you didn't play table soccer. with bottle
cover.....
.....then I guess ur Childhood wasn't fun!
Oya choose which one u do
Do you knw its not jangilova epo motor? it is
JINGLE OVER LIKE A MOTOR!! I bet u didn't knw.
Don't be shy, I didn't know either until now I am
sure 99.9 % of adults that grew up in Nigeria dnt
knw dat d nursery rhyme "sandalili sandalili" is
actually "standard living standard living". I knw u
are singing it now again, smiles ***Confess.! are
u guilty?
MY GENERATION!
MY GENERATION!!
MY GENERATION!!![color=#006600][/color]

ana crash: 23 families seek amendment to compensation

Twenty-three families of the Dana Air plane crash
victims have applied to the Federal High Court in
Lagos to amend their compensation claims.
The Justice Mohammed Idris court fixed October 21
for hearing of the case, which was brought against
Dana Air and the Estate of Pilot Peter Waxtan by the
families.
The Dana Air’s McDonnell Douglas MD-83, operating
as Flight 992, had crashed into a two-storey building
at Iju, Ishaga, a Lagos suburb, killing all 153 people.
The incident, which happened on June 3, 2012, had
generated controversies, among which was claims by
some families of the victims that they had yet to be
paid compensation.
A statement on Tuesday said 23 of the victims’
families wanted a review of their compensation
claims due to time lapse and other developments.
It said, “The plaintiffs, among others, prayed for an
order directing Dana to pay them the statutory
advance payment of US $30,000 in full, or the
outstanding due advance payment.
“They sought interest on the sum at the rate of 21 per
cent per annum from July 4, 2012, the 30th day after
the air crash and the date on which the payments
ought to have been made, until the date of the court’s
order.
“They also sought the costs of the applications
assessed at US$10,000.00 each.”
The applications were said to have been filed on the
families’ behalf by a consortium of lawyers, Aviation
Attorney Group, led by Oba Nsugbe of Pump Court
Chambers.
“Section 48 (3) of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Act 2006
requires a carrier to make advance payments of at
least $30,000 within 30 days from the date of an
accident resulting in death or injury of passengers, to
the natural person or such natural persons who are
entitled to claim compensation,” the statement
added.
Dana Air and its insurers are said to have failed to
pay the statutory advance compensation of $30,000
to the families of several victims of the air crash.
In their defence, Dana Air and Stacey Veolette Sellers
(who was sued as the personal representative of the
Estate of Mr. Peter Waxtan – the late pilot of the air
craft) denied liability and disagreed with the
interpretations the plaintiffs placed on relevant
provisions of the convention and the NCAA 2006 vis-
à-vis their claims.
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I wonder how my current pic will look in my children's eyes twenty years from now

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NIGERIANS that have expressed surprise that each
senator receives N506,600 per annum as wardrobe
allowance may be in for a shocker as the lawmakers
receive far more allowances under different other
categories.
Investigation by our correspondent on Monday
showed that senators’ allowances totalled
N18,642,880 on annual basis.
In all, the allowance each senator receives is nine
times more than his annual salary.
A senator’s salary is pegged at N2,026,400 per
annum.
Each senator or a member of the House of
Representatives is entitled to 19 different allowances.
These allowances are for vehicle maintenance and
fuelling; domestic staff, entertainment, utilities,
personal assistant, constituency, wardrobe, house
maintenance, newspapers, recess, accommodation,
furniture, severance, tour duty, estacode, special
assistant, security, legislative aide and medical.
These allowances are specified in the Remuneration
Package for Political, Public and Judicial Office
Holders prepared by the Revenue Mobilisation
Allocation and Fiscal Commission.
On an annual basis, the 107 senators receive
N1,994,788,160 as allowances. Only 107 senators are
eligible for these allowances. The President of the
Senate and Deputy President of the Senate receive
fewer allowances because most of their needs are
fully provided for by the state.
For members of the House, the annual allowances
payable are about eight times higher than their
annual salaries.
While the annual salary of a House member is
pegged at N1,985,212.50, the annual allowances add
up to N15,286,135.25. This means that the 358
members of the House (excluding the speaker and
the deputy speaker) get N5,472,436,419.5 annually in
allowances.
The allowances, however, are in categories. Some are
tagged regular while others are tagged irregular
allowances.
Regular allowances are those that are paid on
monthly basis along with the monthly salaries while
irregular allowances are paid at other intervals,
ranging from annual to once in four years.
There are also other allowances not included in this
calculation that are paid not at any fixed periods but
as many times as they occur in the year.
The allowances are calculated as percentages of the
annual salaries. While some are higher than the
annual salaries, others are lower.
Basically, both senators and Reps are paid the same
percentages of their salaries as allowances, except
the constituency allowance where senators are paid
250 per cent while Reps get 100 per cent of their
annual salaries.
Vehicle maintenance and fuelling allowance is 75 per
cent; domestic staff, 75 per cent; entertainment, 30
per cent; utilities, 30 per cent; wardrobe, 25 per cent;
newspapers, 15 per cent; house maintenance, five
per cent; and personal assistants, 25 per cent.
For a senator, therefore, the vehicle maintenance and
fuelling allowance adds up to N1,519,800; domestic
staff, N1, 519,800; entertainment, N607,920; utilities,
N607,920; wardrobe, N506,600; newspapers,
N303,960; house maintenance, N101,320;
constituency, N5,066,000; personal assistant,
N506,600.
For a member of the House of Representatives, the
vehicle maintenance and fuelling allowance comes
up to N1,488,909.40; domestic staff, N1,488,909.40;
entertainment, N595,563.75; utilities, 595,563.75;
wardrobe, N496,303.12; newspapers, N303,960;
house maintenance, N99,260.62; constituency,
N1,985,212.50; and personal assistant, N 496,303.12.
The irregular allowances include housing allowance,
200 per cent of the Reps annual salaries; furniture
allowance, 300 per cent; recess allowance, 10 per
cent and severance allowance, 300 per cent.
Housing allowance is paid once a year. Furniture
allowance is paid once in four years and recess
allowance is paid when the lawmakers are on recess
and they go on recess four times in a year. Severance
allowance is at the end of the four-year tenure.
The housing allowance of a senator is N4,053,800.
The furniture allowance is N6,079,200. On annualised
basis, the furniture allowance is N1,519,800. The
recess allowance climbs to N810,560 if they go on
recess four times a year. The severance allowance is
N6,079,200. On annual basis, it comes down to
N1,519,800.
For Reps, the housing allowance is N3,970,425. The
furniture allowance is N5,955,637.50. Annually, the
furniture allowance comes down to N1, 488,909.38.
Also, recess allowance comes up to N794, 084. The
severance allowance is N5,955,637.50. On annual
basis, it comes down to N1,488,909.38.
There are other allowances that the lawmakers are
not paid directly but provided and paid for by the
government.
These are allowances for special assistants, security
and legislative aides. What this means is that those
engaged in these capacities are paid directly by the
government as the allowances cannot be claimed by
political office holders. These allowances apply to
senators and Reps.
Medical expenses are also borne by the government
when the lawmakers have need for the services.
The lawmakers are also entitled to tour duty
allowance and estacode whenever they travel out of
the country. For a senator, the tour duty allowance is
N37,000 per night while the estacode is $950 per
night.
For a member of the House of Representatives, the
tour duty allowance is N35,000 per night while the
estacode is $900 per night.
Although political office holders in the country are
among the highest paid government officials in the
world, our correspondent reports that the worry of
many Nigerians is not what they earn officially but
what accrues to them through self-appropriation and
corruption.
The budget of the National Assembly is never broken
into components and efforts to get them to break
down the budget have not yielded the required result
even after the invocation of the Freedom of
Information Act.
Lawmakers are known to collect huge quarterly
allocations, some of which are ostensibly designated
for constituency projects. The constituency allowance
is different from the constituency project fund.
Constituency allowance is paid for the maintenance
of constituency office and contact while constituency
project fund are appropriated to enable the
lawmakers to execute projects in their
constituencies.
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and other digital content on this website, may not be
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NIGERIANS that have expressed surprise that each
senator receives N506,600 per annum as wardrobe
allowance may be in for a shocker as the lawmakers
receive far more allowances under different other
categories.
Investigation by our correspondent on Monday
showed that senators’ allowances totalled
N18,642,880 on annual basis.
In all, the allowance each senator receives is nine
times more than his annual salary.
A senator’s salary is pegged at N2,026,400 per
annum.
Each senator or a member of the House of
Representatives is entitled to 19 different allowances.
These allowances are for vehicle maintenance and
fuelling; domestic staff, entertainment, utilities,
personal assistant, constituency, wardrobe, house
maintenance, newspapers, recess, accommodation,
furniture, severance, tour duty, estacode, special
assistant, security, legislative aide and medical.
These allowances are specified in the Remuneration
Package for Political, Public and Judicial Office
Holders prepared by the Revenue Mobilisation
Allocation and Fiscal Commission.
On an annual basis, the 107 senators receive
N1,994,788,160 as allowances. Only 107 senators are
eligible for these allowances. The President of the
Senate and Deputy President of the Senate receive
fewer allowances because most of their needs are
fully provided for by the state.
For members of the House, the annual allowances
payable are about eight times higher than their
annual salaries.
While the annual salary of a House member is
pegged at N1,985,212.50, the annual allowances add
up to N15,286,135.25. This means that the 358
members of the House (excluding the speaker and
the deputy speaker) get N5,472,436,419.5 annually in
allowances.
The allowances, however, are in categories. Some are
tagged regular while others are tagged irregular
allowances.
Regular allowances are those that are paid on
monthly basis along with the monthly salaries while
irregular allowances are paid at other intervals,
ranging from annual to once in four years.
There are also other allowances not included in this
calculation that are paid not at any fixed periods but
as many times as they occur in the year.
The allowances are calculated as percentages of the
annual salaries. While some are higher than the
annual salaries, others are lower.
Basically, both senators and Reps are paid the same
percentages of their salaries as allowances, except
the constituency allowance where senators are paid
250 per cent while Reps get 100 per cent of their
annual salaries.
Vehicle maintenance and fuelling allowance is 75 per
cent; domestic staff, 75 per cent; entertainment, 30
per cent; utilities, 30 per cent; wardrobe, 25 per cent;
newspapers, 15 per cent; house maintenance, five
per cent; and personal assistants, 25 per cent.
For a senator, therefore, the vehicle maintenance and
fuelling allowance adds up to N1,519,800; domestic
staff, N1, 519,800; entertainment, N607,920; utilities,
N607,920; wardrobe, N506,600; newspapers,
N303,960; house maintenance, N101,320;
constituency, N5,066,000; personal assistant,
N506,600.
For a member of the House of Representatives, the
vehicle maintenance and fuelling allowance comes
up to N1,488,909.40; domestic staff, N1,488,909.40;
entertainment, N595,563.75; utilities, 595,563.75;
wardrobe, N496,303.12; newspapers, N303,960;
house maintenance, N99,260.62; constituency,
N1,985,212.50; and personal assistant, N 496,303.12.
The irregular allowances include housing allowance,
200 per cent of the Reps annual salaries; furniture
allowance, 300 per cent; recess allowance, 10 per
cent and severance allowance, 300 per cent.
Housing allowance is paid once a year. Furniture
allowance is paid once in four years and recess
allowance is paid when the lawmakers are on recess
and they go on recess four times in a year. Severance
allowance is at the end of the four-year tenure.
The housing allowance of a senator is N4,053,800.
The furniture allowance is N6,079,200. On annualised
basis, the furniture allowance is N1,519,800. The
recess allowance climbs to N810,560 if they go on
recess four times a year. The severance allowance is
N6,079,200. On annual basis, it comes down to
N1,519,800.
For Reps, the housing allowance is N3,970,425. The
furniture allowance is N5,955,637.50. Annually, the
furniture allowance comes down to N1, 488,909.38.
Also, recess allowance comes up to N794, 084. The
severance allowance is N5,955,637.50. On annual
basis, it comes down to N1,488,909.38.
There are other allowances that the lawmakers are
not paid directly but provided and paid for by the
government.
These are allowances for special assistants, security
and legislative aides. What this means is that those
engaged in these capacities are paid directly by the
government as the allowances cannot be claimed by
political office holders. These allowances apply to
senators and Reps.
Medical expenses are also borne by the government
when the lawmakers have need for the services.
The lawmakers are also entitled to tour duty
allowance and estacode whenever they travel out of
the country. For a senator, the tour duty allowance is
N37,000 per night while the estacode is $950 per
night.
For a member of the House of Representatives, the
tour duty allowance is N35,000 per night while the
estacode is $900 per night.
Although political office holders in the country are
among the highest paid government officials in the
world, our correspondent reports that the worry of
many Nigerians is not what they earn officially but
what accrues to them through self-appropriation and
corruption.
The budget of the National Assembly is never broken
into components and efforts to get them to break
down the budget have not yielded the required result
even after the invocation of the Freedom of
Information Act.
Lawmakers are known to collect huge quarterly
allocations, some of which are ostensibly designated
for constituency projects. The constituency allowance
is different from the constituency project fund.
Constituency allowance is paid for the maintenance
of constituency office and contact while constituency
project fund are appropriated to enable the
lawmakers to execute projects in their
constituencies.
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and other digital content on this website, may not be
reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or
redistributed in whole or in part without prior
express written permission from PUNCH.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday ordered
the removal of all military checkpoints set up in the
wake of Boko Haram activities across the country.
The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence, Aliyu
Ismaila, disclosed this to State House correspondents
after a meeting Buhari had with service chiefs at the
Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Ismaila said the meeting had further encouraged the
security chiefs to do more in the war against
insurgency because of the leadership being provided
by the President who is a retired military officer.
Details later. . .

Sijioke:
aregbesola has a stone heart o.p it isnt 4months na 5 months sef. now tell me is this the kind of change we want. i pity all those that vote for buhari. Gej till 2019.

.. B4 I can say anything, I will love to ask the person that wrote this: since last year june, can u tell me the amount federal govt released every month as allocation to all APC states and how much are they giving them b4.. .. I reservr my comment till u talk