[ 2014-03-06 ]

Nigeria Prez Sacks Sports Minister Over $9.5m World Cup Budget?
Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan has sacked the
Sports Minister, Bolaji Abdullahi after failing to
appear before the senate to defend an extravagant
$9.5million World Cup budget he proposed.

No immediate explanations were given for the
president's shocking decision but speculations are
that President Goodluck Jonathan is unhappy with
the astronomical World Cup budget the minister
intends to defend

The sack was announced just before the
commencement of Wednesday's meeting of the
Executive Council of the Federation, FEC.

THE Senate Committee on Sports, Tuesday summoned
the Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdulahi to appear
before the committee by 12 noon, Tuesday next week
for absenting himself from the budget defence of
his ministry without any formal communication to
the committee.

The committee alleged that the minister in the
last three years had treated the committee with
disdain by refusing to appear before it as was the
tradition in other ministries to defend the budget
proposal for the fiscal year.

Dr. Tamuno Danagogo has thus been appointed to as
the new Minister of Sports and is expected to over
see the Eagles preparations for the World Cup in
Brazil.

Source - Peacefmonline

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