A report by TheCable has shown that Aso Rock, Nigeria’s seat of executive power, failed to remit taxes, such as pay as you earn (PAYE), value added tax (VAT) and withholding tax (WHT), to the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) in 2016 — despite deducting at source. The two chambers of the national assembly also failed […]
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appealed to the international community to take action against the flow of illegal funds, money-laundering and tax evasion, which cost Africa 50 billion dollars every year. Guterres, who made the appeal in Addis Ababa at the Second Annual UN-African Union Conference, said African resources should remain in Africa to support […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari today, Thursday, signed into law an Executive Order aimed at seizing assets of corrupt persons and institutions in Nigeria. The order also targets specific politically exposed persons who are currently being tried in courts for corruption. See full details here: EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 6 of 2018 ON THE PRESERVATION OF SUSPICIOUS ASSETS […]
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A federal high court in Abuja on Wednesday dismissed the bail application filed on behalf of Jolly Nyame, ex-governor of Taraba state. Recall that Nyame is in Kuje prison, Abuja, after a judge handed him a 14-year jail sentence on May 30. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had accused Nyame of criminally misappropriating the […]
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A federal high court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday sentenced Joshua Dariye, former governor of Plateau state, to 16 years in prison. Dariye, a serving senator, will serve a two-year and 14-year jail term concurrently. Adebukola Banjoko, the judge, did not give him an option of fine. The former governor appeared in court in a […]
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Former director-general of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Patrick Akpobolokemi, has been acquitted of a N2.6 billion fraud charge by the Lagos division of the appeal court. Yargatta Nimpar, judge of the appeal court, upheld the no-case submission filed by Akpolokemi, after it was dismissed by a high court in October 2017. The Economic […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has taken Ramalan Yero, former governor of Kaduna, Nuhu Somo Wya, former minister of state for power, and two others into detention. They were detained on Wednesday by the Kaduna zonal office of the EFCC over the N700m campaign funds released by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) before […]
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Jolly Nyame, a former governor of Taraba State and clergyman, has been sentenced to a total of 28 years in prison, 14 years of which was for criminal breach of trust. An outraged Justice Adebukola Banjoko of the Federal High Court, while handing out the sentence, lashed out: “There’s no moral justification for the level […]
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The Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Is’haq Oloyede, has said Nigeria is dominated by certified thieves. The don disclosed this while speaking at 61st Birthday Colloquium of the Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, in Osun on Sunday. Mr Oloyede, who spoke on “Functional Education as a Tool for National Development and […]
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The Federal High Court in Benin has ordered that the Chairman of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo, Chief Dan Orbih, be remanded in prison custody if he failed to perfect his bail. The court had on Thursday granted the Orbih and Mr Osagie Ize-Iyamu, the 2016 governorship candidate, bail in the sum of N10 […]
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