The acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, says evil and civil actions such as strikes and agitations are caused by corruption. Resident doctors and university lecturers have been on strike since August owing to the failure of the government to meet the demand of paying them a backlog of […]
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The Nigerian Senate in a statement by its spokesman, Aliyu Abdullahi, has lambasted Itse Sagay, the chairman of the Presidential Action Committee on Anti-Corruption (PACAC), saying he has failed in his duty and said the federal government has been losing corruption cases because of him. The statement is in reaction to Sagay’s comment that the 8th assembly […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has denied investigating Walter Onnoghen, Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). The commission went on to say that the leak of names of high-profile individuals under investigation has done damage to its work. Walter Onnoghen, chief justice of Nigeria; Okonjo-Iweala, former finance minister; Kayode Fayemi, minister of solid minerals, […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the Federal Government of maintaining a “deafening silence” on the “weighty” allegation that Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, received bribes, totalling N120bn from police officers seeking promotion. The said allegation was made by Senator Isah Misau, an alleged police deserter, also claimed the IGP usually collects bribe […]
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Ibrahim Magu, acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), says the war against corruption is already lost with the current tempo. The EFCC chief said this at an interactive session with media executives in Abuja on Wednesday. “The way we are going we have already failed. I am telling you we have […]
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The Sultan of Sokoto and Chairman Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, has declared Sept. 1, 2017 as Eid-el-Kabir day. This is contained in a statement signed by Prof. Sambo Junaidu, the Chairman, Advisory Committee on Religious Affairs to the Sokoto Sultanate Council. The statement, made available to the News Agency of […]
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A federal high court sitting in Lagos on Tuesday ordered the interim forfeiture of 56 houses linked to Diezani Alison-Madueke, former minister of petroleum resources. The order followed an ex parte application filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) seeking forfeiture of the assets. In the application, the commission told Abdulaziz Anka, the […]
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A Federal High Court in Lagos has granted an order of interim forfeiture of the sum of N437,348,181 and some properties linked to a current Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Clement Illoh Onubuogu. Justice Abdulaziz Anka granted the order at the instance of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), […]
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The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in its National Corruption Report released on Wednesday, disclosed that government officials received an estimated N400bn in bribes within a year. A survey carried out in collaboration with the UN office on drugs and crime showed that 32.3 per cent of Nigerian adults paid bribes to public officials between June 2015 and May […]
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NIGERIA – Kemi Adeosun, minister of finance, says the federal government has received over 5,000 whistleblowing tips but could only act on 365. Since December 2016, when the policy was instituted in the country, the government says it has made first batch payment of N375.8 million to 20 whistleblowers who provided information that led to […]
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