Almost two months after a military jet mistakenly bombed a camp for internally displaced persons in the town of Rann in Borno State, the Federal Government through the Presidential Committee on the North East Initiative (PCNI) presented a cash support of N10,000 to 58 victims of the bombing. Expectedly, this support was met with criticism... Read More

Borno State, IDP, PCNI, Presidential Committee on the North East Initiative, Rann, YNaija Says

February 27, 2017

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House of Reps reject N45bn IDPs rehabilitation budget

by Azeez Adeniyi The House of Representatives Committee on Rehabilitation of the North East has rejected the N45bn budget presented by the Presidential Committee on North-East Initiative for the rehabilitation of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). According to the committee, the budget contained “fictitious” sub-heads which did not address the immediate needs of the Internally Displaced... Read More

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House of Representatives, IDPs, N45bn budget, North East rehabilitation, PCNI, reject budget

February 21, 2017

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[The Legislative Blog]: Like PINE, like PCNI…presidency budgets N60m for grass clearing in North East

While we’re still very much on the matter of the N200million grass-clearing contract awarded by the Presidential Initiative for the North-East (PINE) to a company owned by the Secretary General of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, the PCNI has just made a similar move. Members of the House of Representatives were thrown into utter disbelief at... Read More

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