Transparency
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While consumer groups hit out at energy company profits after the energy price cap rose today, the chief executive of water company Pennon was defending her pay increase to MPs. Susan Davy, chief executive of South West Water’s parent company, acknowledged the company had “a lot more to do” on customer service and engagement and…
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Joined by Elon Musk in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that seeks to significantly reduce the size of the government by instructing heads of federal departments and agencies to undertake plans for “large-scale reductions in force.” Trump’s newest order directs the federal government to implement a “workforce optimization initiative” created by Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency,…
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Erstwhile presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi, has said that there is no corresponding breakdown of expenditures to justify the increase in the 2025 national budget. The statement comes after President Bola Tinubu, on Thursday, increased the appropriation bill for the 2025 fiscal year from N49.7 trillion to N54.2 trillion. MEZIESBLOG…
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Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani, has said his administration inherited a huge debt burden of $587 million, N85 billion, and 115 contractual liabilities from former governor of the state, Nasir El-Rufai. Governor Sani, who disclosed this in Kaduna on Saturday while addressing a town hall meeting, said the huge debt burden was eating deep into…
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The 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has accused President Bola Tinubu’s government of having a track record of ignoring transparency issues. Atiku said Tinubu’s government ignores issues of due process in public administration. Posting on X, the former Vice President said the unresolved $3.3 billion NNPCL loan is…
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“Google it.” Even my technophobe grandma understands what that means, and almost everyone with experience of the internet has used the company’s services in some shape or form. Once a humble search engine, Google has morphed into one of the biggest companies in the world. “Don’t be evil” used to be part of its corporate…
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Deborah Birx, the State Department immunologist advising the White House on its response to the outbreak, said Tuesday that China’s public reporting influenced assumptions elsewhere in the world about the nature of the virus. “The medical community made — interpreted the Chinese data as: This was serious, but smaller than anyone expected,” she said at…
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