“NBET Pays Staff N289 Million Vacation Allowance A Day After Tinubu Ordered 60% Travel Expense Cut”

The Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET) Plc has hurriedly paid its senior management staff N289 million as travel allowance for 2024. According to TheCable, although there is no suggestion of wrongdoing, the timing of the payments is raising eyebrows. Payments were made on January 10 — a day after President Bola Tinubu slashed the expenditure and number of people in the entourage for international and local travels by 60 percent. Presidential spokesperson, Ajuri Ngelale said while announcing the downsizing, “If there is anybody who feels that the directive of the president is not binding on them, who feels that the president will not uphold this directive in implementation and seeks to test it, they will do so at their own…