Education ministry’s N160bn fund lies idle amid huge infrastructural decays
About N160.38 billion earmarked for education development has remained unspent in five years despite a huge infrastructural deficit in the sector.
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Numbers To Ponder: 1.9m Displaced, 4000 for Evacuation, N6bn NEMA Scam and N40bn more
For Today’s Numbers to Ponder, 1.9 million people are displaced from their homes in the North-East. The figure reported by UNICEF, is another alarming figure, a day after NBS reported high numbers of poor people in the region. Away from Northeast, the country’s opposition party has challenged VP Yemi Osinbajo to defend himself in the alleged N5.8 billion NEMA scam. The Government is already looking for ways to weather a pandemic tsunami on the economy and may further review the crude oil price in the 2020 budget down to $20 per barrel. Another FG effort will start evacuating about 4,000 stranded citizens across the world as a result of COVID-19 from today.