A civil servant in Kogi, Mrs Husseina Mohammed, has returned N1,780,500 paid in excess of her March salary to the state government. Mohammed said this on Friday in Lokoja while on a courtesy visit to Director-General, Bureau of Information and Grassrrots Mobilisation, Mr Abdulkareem Abdulamlik. She said that she received an alert from her bank in the afternoon of May 21 and discovered that a huge sum had been credited in her favour. Mohammed said she immediately called the attention of her husband to the development and a decision was taken to return the money to the coffers of the…

It was a mixed bag of knocks and kudos as socio-cultural organisations such as Arewa Consultative Forum, Ohaneze Ndigbo and Afenifere gave a mid-term assessment of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. Prominent Nigerians including lawmakers also scored the administration’s performance. While commending the administration for its strides in tackling corruption and the Boko Haram menace; ACF knocked the administration over its failure to fix the power sector. ACF suggested that the administration should, as a matter of urgency, reverse the privatisation of the power sector because it had become glaring that those who bought the nation’s power assets lacked the…