Humanity Watch

  The Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), has faulted the Federal Executive Council's approval of the Land Swap Initiative of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA).   The  non- governmental organisation working to ensure good governance through the use of information and communication technologies for peaceful coexistence and sustainable development made its stance known on Thursday in a statement made available to journalists in Abuja, a copy of which Humanity Watch obtained.   The FEC had at the end of its meeting on Wednesday announced that it was resuming the FCT   Land Swap Initiative that was earlier suspended by the government following allegations of corruption. According to the FEC, the objective of the initiative is to address infrastructure gaps in the FCT by providing land to investors who in return will finance infrastructure rollout. Worth about N1 trillion under the previous dispensation, the initiati...

 T he Coalition of Civil Society Organisations has called for immediate arrest and probe of former governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari over monumental fraud allegedly perpetrated as the governor of the state, between 2011 and 2019. The Coalition, comprising a conglomerate of 16 frontline Civil Society organisations, made this call at a press conference held in Lagos, on Sunday. Speaking to pressmen at the conference, Comrade Olufemi Lawson Executive Director, Centre for Public Accountability urged the new Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, to as a matter of urgency, ensure that Yari have his days in court to answer the alleged corruption charges before him. Recall that a Federal High Court, Abuja, earlier this month dismissed the suit seeking an order compelling the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate former Governor of Zamfara, Abdulaziz Yari, for alleged misappropriation of N900 billion. Justice Oko...