BURKINA FASO RELEASES DETAINED NIGERIAN SOLDIERS. (PHOTO).

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 Burkina Faso releases detained Nigerian soldiers The 11 Nigerian military officials on board the C-130 aircraft that made an emergency landing in Burkina Faso have been released. The soldiers were held last week by Burkinabe authorities over what they described as violations of their airspace. Their release Wednesday night comes about nine days after their arrest. The spokesperson of the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kimiebi Ebienfa, confirmed that the officials were released on Wednesday. The detained soldiers were released after a high-level Nigerian delegation visited Burkina Faso. The delegation, led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, met with the government of Burkina Faso to resolve the disagreement over the emergency landing. According to a statement issued by the minister’s spokesperson, Alkasim Abdulkadir, both countries have now resolved the issue. “In the spirit of constructive engagement, the two governments amicably resolved the issue concerning...

HOW FORMER ZAMFARA GOV AND HIS COMMISSIONER OF FIN SUPERVISED SALARY RACKETTERING.{PHOTO}.#PRESS RELEASE.

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     A persistent salary racketeering for past several years was discovered in a first attempt at verifying the pay roll of Zamfara State by the recently appointed Commissioner of Finance, Alhaji Rabiu Garba Gusau.In a press briefing with newsmen yesterday, the Commissioner disclosed that a total of 4,972 persons authorised by the former administration of Abdulazeez Yari to be collecting salaries worth over N216 million monthly have been found to be irregular.Significantly, this irregularities persisted under the supervision of the former Commissioner of Finance under the administration of Abdulazeez Yari, Alhaji Mukhtar Shehu Idris (Kogunan Gusau).

Some of the discoveries included non existent staff who collect monthly salaries and existing staff who collect multiple salaries. "there are staff whose list is not part of the state civil service but said they were simply authorised to be included in the payroll from the office of the Head of service", the Commissioner disclosed.According to him, there are among them, 1640 staff whose account numbers are not on the server and another 119 whose names on the payroll differ from the account numbers benfitting from their monthly pay.

"in fact, a check further revealed to us that some names collecting salaries in the state do not even have account numbers with us. Instead, numbers similar to GSM numbers are what is provided, yet salaries go into certain account numbers at the end of the day", the Commissioner revealed .Preliminary investigation indicated that these irregularities were known and tolerated by the previous administration which the Government of Bello Muhammad is now committed to correct.

"we have stopped the payment of these salaries and our investigation will continue and we shall make sure that scarce resources of ZAMFARA State  is no longer siphoned through fraudulent means", the Commissioner assured.
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