President Muhammadu Buhari on May 14 in London promised to provide specific details of stolen asset by former public officials. “So far, what has come out, what has been recovered in whatever currency from each ministries, departments and individuals, I intend on the 29th to speak on this because all Nigerians are getting from the […]
Continue ReadingWhen the EFCC took off in 2004, it was able to prevent the corrupt criminal suspects from frustrating their prosecution. Unfortunately, the EFCC was taken over by powerful criminal suspects in connivance with a former Attorney-General of the Federation and an ex-Inspector-General of Police. While pretending to fight corruption under the rule of law, the […]
Continue ReadingThe family of the former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh has described the refusal of the Federal Government to accept refund of the N400 million paid into the account of Chief Olisa Metuh from the office of the National Security Adviser, as ludicrous. In a statement issued in […]
Continue ReadingActing Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has charged Nigerians to imbibe the culture of ‘ living with clean hands’ as a way of stamping out corruption from the society. Magu, who stated that the job of EFCC entails confronting looters of the nation’s commonwealth, taking on impunity and restoring hope to […]
Continue ReadingJustice F. N. Yunusa of the Federal High Court sitting in Enugu on Wednesday, May 25, 2016 sentenced one Eugene Okpala, a 62-year old retired colonel to seven years imprisonment in a case of conspiracy, and obtaining by false pretence to the tune of N34.5million (thirty-four million, five hundred thousand naira) brought against him by […]
Continue ReadingA federal high court sitting in Abuja, presided over by Okon Abang, a judge, has rejected an application for leave to travel abroad for medical treatment filed by Olisa Metuh, former spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The judge noted that the court lacked the jurisdiction to entertain the application, since there was a subsisting […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s minister of foreign affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, has disclosed that the federal government is in the process of repatriating stolen £300 million pounds from Jersey. Speaking at a news conference, the minister said that the money in Jersey would have been repatriated but for a last minute ‘objection’ that was raised by the people, who […]
Continue Reading“MISSING” N30 TRILLION: OKONJO-IWEALA REBUTS SERAP, TAKES LEGAL ACTIONOur attention has been drawn to media reports regarding a court judgment alleged to have been entered against the Federal Government of Nigeria and Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in respect of an action by the Socio-Economic Rights Agenda (SERAP) pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act. The High […]
Continue ReadingA Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos has sentenced a former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration Safety Agency, NIMASA, Mr. Raymond Omatseye, to five years in prison for a N1.5bn contract scam.Omatseye was charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a 27-count charge bordering contract scam to the tune of […]
Continue ReadingThe chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has raised the alarm over the illegal use of his name by unidentified individuals to extort money from the public. In a statement released by the agency’s Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, it was revealed that it had come to the notice […]
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