Nigeria’s interior minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo has admitted that he owns company shares that received almost half a billion naira from the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation. The New Planet Project Limited was paid 438 million naira as consultancy fees by the ministry in 2023 for a social register project. The payment came to…

Less than one hour after her suspension, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has invited the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, to its headquarters located in Jabi area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. President, Bola Tinubu announced Edu’s immediate suspension from office Through his Special Adviser to the President…

President Bola Tinubu on Monday suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Betta Edu over a N585.2 million financial scandal with immediate effect. The decision, President Tinubu, said is in line with his avowed commitment to uphold the highest standards of integrity, transparency, and accountability in the management of the commonwealth of Nigerians. The President has directed…

President Bola Tinubu has directed that a thorough and comprehensive investigation be conducted on the alleged misappropriation of public funds by the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation to ascertain the accuracy and validity of the report.

An advocacy group known as Forum of Lawyers for Human Rights and Justice, has said that the Honourable Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Dr Betta Edu, deserves commendation over her ongoing reforms of National Social Investment Programme to align with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu renewed hope agenda. The group's statement came on the heels of claims…

A socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Youth, has said those bent on making sure that the Renewed Hope Poverty Alleviation policy of President Bola Tinubu did not succeed were after the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, due to what they described as the minister's uncompromising stand against saboteurs. Ohanaeze Youth said this in…

The embattled Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, has been advised to resign or excuse herself from duty for some time so she can submit herself to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) investigations. This is following the Federal Government's ongoing 44.8 Billion Fraud investigation in NSIPA as it concerns the…

Newly installed management of the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA), has said that social media reports linking the minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu, to ongoing fraud investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), of suspended National Coordinator and Chief Executive Officer, (CEO), of the agency, Halima Shehu,…

The Commonwealth Society of Nigeria (CSN) has named the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, as its anti-corruption hero and ambassador.

NSIPA and management have vehemently distances itself from any claims connecting the Honourable Minister to financial impropriety or any wrongdoing within the agency.

For 50-year-old Eno Essien Asuquo, who had been battling breast cancer since August 2003, the Christmas season brought good luck as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, reached out a helping hand.

In pursuit of President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope agenda, the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation is set to breathe life into the moribund garri processing factory in Alapoti village, located in Ado Odo, Ota Local Council of Ogun State.