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The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, has released the list of Visitation Panels to 25 Federal Polytechnics and 21 Colleges of Education as approved by President Muhammadu Buhari, with a directive to submit their reports in six weeks.
It would be recalled that on Jan. 21, at the 2020 Annual Ministerial Press Briefing, the minister promised that the list of the visitation panels to the institutions would be released in two weeks.
Adamu, while rolling out the list, in Abuja, on Friday, said the Terms of Reference (ToR) of the visitation panels would include, among others; examining the relationship between the institution and the various statutory bodies it had interactions with.
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Some top officials of the Budget Office of Federation (BoF), including the Director General, Mr. Ben Akabueze, are currently being questioned by an investigative panel committee (IPC) over alleged cases of corruption in the Office.
The investigation, THISDAY gathered, followed a petition by one Hajiya Sanusi Bilkisu, a grade level 14 officer, and Polytechnic Desk Expenditure Officer in the Budget Office, to the Head of Service of (HoS), Mrs. Folashade Yemi-Esan over alleged corrupt practices in the Budget Office.
Bilikisu’s petition to the Head of Service was titled “Re: Complaint on inactions by the Director General Budget Office of the Federation over corrupt practices in the Budget Office the Federation (Expenditure) Social 1A.