Ekiti gets N4.7bn, Abia N5.7bn as another tranche of Paris Club loan refund is released
The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL has called on the Federal Government, to keep track of the second tranche of N243.79bn of the Paris Club Refund freshly released to the state governments of the Federation.
Our correspondent reports that a statement from the ministry of finance indicated that Lagos and Kastina States got the closest share of the refund, with N8.4 and N8.2 billion respectively, while Borno, Jigawa, Kaduna, Borno, Imo, Niger, Ondo and Oyo States got N7 billion each.
The releases were conditional upon a minimum of 75 per cent being applied to the payment of workers' salaries and pensions for states that owe salaries and pension.
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