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Nigeria ports spat sees NPA head suspended
Nigeria has suspended the head of the ports authority amid claims that she provided unfair dispensations to Dangote Group.
NPA s Usman, in yellow, listens while Minister Amaechi talks
Source: Nigerian Ports twitter account
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Nigeria has suspended the head of the ports authority amid claims that she provided unfair dispensations to Dangote Group.
Hadiza Bala Usman was suspended on May 6 from her role as head of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA). Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari agreed that Usman should step back while an investigation is carried out.
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Published 12 May 2021
THE All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party, on Tuesday, renewed their war of words over the Nigeria Ports Authority unremitted N165bn.
National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, had accused the APC-led regime of enabling unbridled corruption in virtually all sectors of the Nigerian economy.
Ologbondiyan in an interview with The PUNCH, said “From the missing US $1billion meant for equipping our military, to the contract scam in the NDDC, it is now an established fact that corruption has become the official policy of this regime.
“The scandal over the unremitted N165bn by the NPA, is only a tip of the iceberg. Our call for the sack and prosecution of the Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi and the suspended MD of the NPA, Hadiza Bala-Usman, stands.”
Hadiza Bala Usman: FG set up panel to probe di suspended NPA boss as PDP call for Hadiza, Amaechi sack
10 May 2021
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Rotimi Amaechi and Hadiza Bala Usman dey inspect di Apapa ports to check di progress of work on top rail tracks
Federal goment of Nigeria don set up one panel wey go torchlight di allegations of corruption wey dem level against di suspended Managing Director of Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) Hadiza Bala-Usman.
Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi inaugurate di seven-man panel of enquiry for Abuja with di mandate to examine and investigate issues wey lead to di termination of pilotage and oda contracts of NPA.