1 YEAR IN OFFICE: President Buhari set to disclose recovered loot tomorrow

President Muhammadu Buhari will tomorrow fulfill the promise he made during his recent trip to Britain that he would disclose the names of those that looted the public treasury and the amount so far recovered from them on May 29, the Democracy Day.

However, speaking on the issue yesterday, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, said he could not remember his boss promising that he would disclose names of those who have returned stolen funds on Democracy Day, stressing that the closest his boss said was that he would update Nigerians on how far his government has taken the anti-graft war and how much has been cumulatively returned by the looters.

Confab delegates reject fuel subsidy removal

There was uproar on Tuesday at the ongoing national conference in Abuja as delegates finally rejected the recommendation of the Confab Committee on Public Finance and Revenue for the total removal of the fuel subsidy by the Federal Government.

The Committee chaired by a former Governor of Nasarawa State, Adamu Aliero, had recommended a total removal of subsidy on petroleum products, arguing that this has been a major financial burden on the nation.

The recommendation had generated heated debate at the plenary and created sharp division among the delegates who accused one another of vested interests.