Former governor of Abia state, Orji Kalu, who trial was nullified by the Supreme Court, has been released from prison. Recall that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had arraigned Kalu and Ude Jones Udeogu, a former director of finance and account of Abia state on 36 counts of money laundering to the tune […]
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The acting managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Kemebradikumo Pondei, has disclosed that the agency’s 2019 budget was padded with over 500 fake projects. Addressing journalists in Rivers state on Tuesday, Pondei said a huge amount of money was appropriated for non-existing projects. He was speaking in reaction to allegations of corruption […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved that Prof Charles Uwakwe be removed as the Registrar and Chief Executive of the National Examinations Council (NECO). The President also sacked four other members of the management for various offences which bordered on financial impropriety. Kokomansion recalls that Uwakwe had since May 2018 been suspended by the Federal Government […]
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By Douglas Dodiyi-Manuel Following the series of agitations that gradually assumed a militarized dimension, the President Olusegun Obasanjo administration thought it imperative to transmutate what was then known as Oil Mineral Producing Area Development Commission (OMPADEC) to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) with an interventional aim at human and infrastructural development, which has in […]
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The United Kingdom is in opposition to Nigerian government’s plan to pay $110 million believed to be a part of funds looted by the late Sani Abacha to Abubakar Bagudu, governor of Kebbi state. As contained in a report by Bloomberg, the governments of Nigeria, the United Kingdom and the United States, are in a […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Sokoto Zonal Office on Wednesday, March 25, 2020 secured the conviction of one Mobuse John, before Hon. Justice M S. Sifawa, Chief Judge of the Sokoto State High court sitting in Sokoto, on a one-count charge bordering on Cheating. The one-count charge reads; “That you Mobuse John, sometime […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, will on Monday, March 23, 2020 arraign the immediate past Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, HoCSF, Winnifred Oyo-Ita. She will be arraigned before Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja. Others to be arraigned along with Oyo-Ita are: Frontline Ace Global […]
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The Federal Government has described the ongoing two-week warning strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as illegal and an act of corruption. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, made the government position known while fielding questions from State House correspondents at the end of the meeting of the Federal […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday, re-arraigned social media celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha, alias Mompha, in a Federal High Court Lagos, for alleged N32.9billion fraud. Mompha was first arraigned by the commission on 14 counts bordering on fraud, money laundering and running a foreign exchange business without the authorisation of the Central Bank […]
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Justice Fadima Murtala Aminu of the Federal High Court, sitting in Gusau, Zamfara State, on Tuesday, February 25, 2020, granted the prayers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Sokoto Zonal Office, for the final forfeitures of N60, 000, 000 (Sixty Million Naira) cash recovered from Murtala Muhammad. The Commission’s Sokoto Zonal Office had […]
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