A staunch supporter of President Muhammadu Buhari for re-election in 2019 and Governor of Kano State, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje has appeared in a video allegedly receiving bribe amounting to about $5million from contractors in the state. The video which was released by online investigative media, Daily Nigerian was a sting operation that captured the governor […]
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Sani Baba-Inna, a Chief Superintendent of Police and Aide de Camp (ADC) to Aisha Buhari, wife of the President, has been detained over alleged fraud, a report has said. In a statement issued on her behalf by Suleiman Haruna, her media aide, the president’s wife said the police arrested Baban-Inna to investigate the allegations leveled […]
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The Independent Corrupt Practices Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arraigned Mr Bature Umar Masari, a former Director-General of the Small and Medium Scale Enterprise Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) before an FCT High Court sitting in Apo, Abuja. The former DG was arraigned on 27 counts bothering on money laundering and embezzlement. According to […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has reportedly secured a court warrant to arrest four officials of the Rivers government over an alleged N117 billion suspicious transaction. The anti-graft agency is investigating the transaction of the said sum which was supposedly withdrawn over the counter in the last three years. The EFCC had invited […]
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Garba Shehu, senior special assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on media and publicity, says Abba Kyari, chief of staff to the president, is innocent of the N29.9m bribery allegation peddled against him. Bako Kyari, who said he is a nephew to the chief of staff, had accused Kyari, during a recent radio programme on Berekete […]
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The acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, says Godswill Akpabio, former minority leader of the senate, is still under investigation despite his defection to APC. Akpabio, who left office as governor of Akwa Ibom state in 2015, had been grilled on several occasions by the EFCC over allegations of […]
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Cable Newspaper Journalism Foundation (CNJF), a not-for-profit media organisation, has asked Kemi Adeosun, the minister of finance, to explain the N7bn payment to Nigerian lawyers over the return of $321 million Abacha Loot recovered from Luxembourg. In a Freedom of Information request, the foundation wants to be furnished with a breakdown of the amount approved and released for […]
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Former president of Comoros Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi has been formally charged with corruption and embezzling public funds in connection with a scheme to sell his country’s passports, according to the prosecutor and court documents. Sambi, who had previously been questioned and placed under house arrest, will also be officially detained to prevent him from […]
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These are very bad times for customers of First City Monument Bank (FCMB) as the bank appears to have lost its security edge over their competitors. In what some industry observers have termed the biggest theft of customers’ deposit, nine members of the bank staff have made away with a total sum of N500 million, […]
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The federal government of Nigeria says the gale of defection in the nation’s party politics will not shield any corrupt politician from investigation and prosecution. Lai Mohammed, minister of information, gave the assurance when he paid an official visit to the Abuja office of The Authority Newspaper. Fielding questions from members of the editorial board […]
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