The former chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, AbdulRasheed Maina, says he is ready to reveal top secrets to President Muhammadu Buhari. In an interview with Channels Television, Maina said many of those around the president were insincere. He said while attempts have been made on his life, he is not afraid […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has accused the senate of displaying public ignorance about the profile of recovered assets. The anti-graft agency said this in scathing response to the allegation that property seized from suspected pension thieves had been shared. Emmanuel Paulker, chairman of the senate ad hoc committee investigating the reinstatement of […]
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The Chairman of the senate ad hoc committee investigating the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina, Emmanuel Paulker, says 222 houses recovered from a pension probe have been shared. Paulker said this on the floor of the senate on Thursday, while moving a motion on the need to investigate the “mystery” surrounding the recovered property which the […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday set up a committee to audit recovered loot and assets seized from corrupt former officials. The committee has four weeks to complete its assignment and to turn in its reports. The president noted there had been “fundamental gaps” in taking stocks of recovered loots and seized assets among agencies involved […]
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FIFA’s ethics watchdogs have banned three former football officials from Guam, Nicaragua and Venezuela for life as part of efforts to address widespread corruption in the sport, the world football governing body said on Tuesday. The latest officials to be hit by FIFA bans are Richard Lai, the former Guam Football Association president and a […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has confirmed the arrest of a former Senate President and one time Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Pius Ayim. Ayim was allegedly arrested for collecting N520m from the embattled former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), on the eve of the 2015 presidential election and […]
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Embattled Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reform Team, has written to appear before a House of Representatives investigative panel next week. The House is probing the circumstances of his controversial promotion and reinstatement into the federal civil service. Daily Trust reports that sources within and outside the panel yesterday said Maina, […]
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The national leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, said the Goodluck Jonathan administration won a gold medal in corruption. Tinubu said this on Thursday while giving a keynote speech at the presentation of ‘Making Steady, Sustainable Progressive for Nigeria’s Peace and Prosperity: A mid-term scorecard on the President Muhammadu Buhari Administration’. The […]
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The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, has said the whistleblower who informed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC of the N13bn recovered from an Ikoyi apartment in Lagos would be paid this month. Adeosun said this in a statement issued by her Special Adviser, Media and Communications, Oluyinka Akintunde on Sunday. “The attention of […]
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The acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, says apart from the fear of God, the commission has no other fear. Magu said this in an interview published in EFCC Alert, the monthly publication of the anti-graft agency. He restated the commission’s resolve to fight corruption in the country, adding: […]
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