The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has urged a review of Nigerian laws to enable anti-graft agencies in the country retain a percentage of the loot recovered to fund their operations.The Acting Chairman of the commission, Mr Ibrahim Magu, made the request at the national anti-corruption conference organised by the Presidential Advisory Committee against […]
Continue ReadingAs reported by The Nation, detectives found a Rolls Royce in the fleet of about 15 cars of one of the seven judges under investigation by the Department of State Services (DSS).The judge was said to have hired a notable construction firm to build his palatial home and imported furniture from Brazil, Argentina and Spain. A […]
Continue ReadingBy Femi FalanaThe State Security Service (SSS) now the Department of State Services, raided the official quarters of judges at Abuja, Gombe, Kano and Port Harcourt last Friday night. During the raid, the homes of the judges were searched while some of them were arrested and taken away. They have since been detained by the SSS. In […]
Continue ReadingAs the media is taken over the arrest of some judges for corruption by the DSS, the Presidency has assured that the President reserves his highest respect for the judiciary as the third arm of government.Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on media and publicity, said the President will not do anything to […]
Continue ReadingThe Department of State Services (DSS) has confirmed that it raided the homes of some judges across the country over allegations of corruption, unholy acts and misconduct levelled against them.Addressing a news conference at the DSS headquarters in Abuja on Saturday, Garba Abdullahi, an agent of the service, said the secret police had been monitoring […]
Continue ReadingThe Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Danladi Umar, has ruled that he will not withdraw from the trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki, noting that his withdrawal would mean the end of trial.Saraki had asked Umar to withdraw from his trial on the grounds that he was biased. The senate president, through […]
Continue ReadingFormer Minister of the Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Peter Orubebe has been ordered by the Code of Conduct Tribunal in Abuja to forfeit his landed property in the capital city to the Federal Government for his failure to declare the property as required by law while leaving office. The former minister was found guilty […]
Continue ReadingThe Economic Community of West Africa State (ECOWAS) Court has ordered immediate release of former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki from detention where he has been unlawfully kept since December 2015.The regional court held that the detention of Dasuki violated both national and international laws on the right of persons and citizens to freedom […]
Continue ReadingAn erstwhile governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, has denied media reports claiming that he has retrieved 48 houses seized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). In a statement on Monday in Yenagoa by his media adviser, Mr. Doifie Buokoribo, Sylva described the report as strange, speculative and malicious. He said neither he […]
Continue ReadingHuman rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has written a letter to Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house of representatives, asking him to stop the ongoing probe against Abdulmumin Jibrin, former chairman appropriations.Jibrin is expected to appear before the ethics and priviledges committee on Monday, but in a letter dated September 23, Falana, who is also Jibrin’s […]
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