N4 Billion First Lady’s House: Soyinka Leads Protest To Fashola

Plans by the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, to construct a N4 billion mission house for the African First Ladies Peace Mission (AFLPM), has been condemned by Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka and civil society groups, Thursday, saying it is “a mind-boggling fiscal misappropriation.” Information Nigeria recalls that the fund for the mission house, which was expected to serve as centre to host other African First Ladies, was listed in the 2013 budget of the FCT, Abuja. In a letter read during a protest march organised by...

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