NIGERIA – the head of service of the federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita, returned to work on Thursday following the rejection of her offer of early retirement by President Muhammadu Buhari. Recall that Oyo-Ita had last weekend sent in her letter directly to the president following pressure mounted on her to quit the job by her sons. […]
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The Pension Transitional Directorate (PTAD) on Tuesday said federal government spent over N5 billion on payment of monthly pension to about 300,000 retirees of 270 parastatals and government privatised agencies. The directorate also dropped 24,000 ghost pensioners from the pension pay roll at the end of its verification exercise conducted in 2017. PTAD’s Executive Secretary, […]
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Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court Abuja, on Monday, granted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)’s prayer to freeze the First City Monument Bank (FCMB)’s Operational Account number: 0998552074 of the Bauchi State government. The EFCC, through his Counsel, Mr Abubakar Aliyu, in an Exparte Order with file number: FHC/ABJ/CS/858/2019, sought the […]
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In its continuing effort at ensuring the satisfactory execution and completion of all Constituency Projects across the country through the Constituency Projects Tracking Group (CPTG) initiative, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has again recovered items worth N117,123,375.44 million from the Senator representing Enugu North Senatorial District of Enugu State. The […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has explained that it’s Enugu Zonal Office on Tuesday July 23, 2019 traced and marked some properties traced to the former Imo State governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha as well as those of his family members and cronies. “The marking of the properties which is a fall-out of our […]
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The Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, said the nation had spent about N2 trillion on constituency projects without commensurate development at the grassroots. The Commission’s spokesperson, Mrs Rasheedat Okoduwa, in a statement in Abuja on Sunday quoted the chairman as saying it at the induction of newly-qualified […]
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The Kaduna Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on July 9, 2019 arraigned one Mukaila Abdulrahman alongside his company MKA Ventures Limited before Justice Darius Khobo of the State High Court, sitting in Kaduna on a three-count charge bordering on cheating and obtaining money under false pretence. The EFCC had received […]
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In fulfilment of his campaign promise, Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, on Wednesday forwarded the Oyo State Anti-Corruption bill, 2019 to the state House of Assembly for legislative action. According to a statement by his chief press secretary, Taiwo Adisa, the governor presented a copy of the draft bill to his Special Adviser, Legislative Matters, […]
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Below are pictures of some pieces of jewellery and a customized gold iPhone, all valued at $40m belonging to Diezani Alison-Madueke, a former Minister of Petroleum Resources. Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos had on Friday (July 5, 2019) ordered the former minister to forfeit the items to the federal […]
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The Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday ordered the permanent forfeiture of the sums of N9.2bn and $8.4m recovered from wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience. Justice Mojisola Olatoregun ordered that the funds should be forfeited to the Federal Government. The judgment followed an application by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, which […]
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