Fresh fraud cases have been uncovered in offices of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board totalling N83m in Kano, Edo, Kogi, Gombe and Plateau states. PUNCH reported that while the board was investigating N31m misappropriated revenue in Edo and N20m in Kano, it was quizzing officials in Plateau and Gombe over N15m and N10m mismanaged in the […]
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A sales clerk in the office of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) in Benue state, Philomina Chieshe, has denied saying the N36 million kept in her custody was swallowed by a snake. Chieshe had reportedly told Ishaq Oloyode, JAMB registrar, and his team that she could not account for N36 million she made in […]
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The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has addressed a bizarre report trending of a snake swallowing N36 million from the vault of one of its state branches. The board said the case was that of pure criminality and fraud on the part of one of its staff. According to a report in Sun news […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the compulsory retirement of Justice Adeniyi Ademola and the sack of Justice O.O Tokode, both of who served as judges of the federal high courts in Abuja and Benin respectively. Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, in a statement said that the president’s decision followed recommendations from the National Judicial Council. The […]
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A new report by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has revealed how several allegations of corruption like: unfair allocation of grades, contract inflation, truncation of staff’s salary on the payroll, employment of unqualified staff, and the certificate scandal in federal universities are neither thoroughly investigated nor the culprits punished. Other instances are allegations of […]
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The President of the Nigerian Senate, Bukola Saraki, will today (Tuesday) be arraigned before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, an agency of the Nigerian Government. Saraki is facing an abridged three-count charge which derived from the original 18-count charge preferred against him for false assets declaration. In a Facebook post confirming his arraignment, Saraki said […]
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The President of the Nigerian Senate, Bukola Saraki has been listed as one of the five owners of “unexplained wealth” in London. According to Transparency International, the report was conducted by Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWOs), a new investigative power designed to help law enforcement agencies act on corrupt assets. Two buildings, located at 7 and 8 […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has filed a fresh two-count charge of fraud against Danladi Umar, chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT). In the suit filed at the high court of the federal capital territory (FCT) by Festus Keyamo, senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), on behalf of the EFCC, it was […]
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NIGERIA – The minister of finance, Kemi Adeosun, has defended the decision to suspend Mounir Gwarzo as director-general of the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC). Adeosun had set up an administrative panel to look into some allegations levelled against Gwarzo. The panel had recommended his suspension, which the minister upheld. But Gwarzo attributed the action […]
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Babachir David Lawal, the former secretary to the Federal Government (SGF), who is being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for corruption, has been released on bail. EFCC sources confirmed that he has been allowed to go home on administrative bail. He was invited for interrogation on Wednesday by the EFCC, over […]
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