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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President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Abuja assured religious leaders, and all Nigerians, that his administration will address rising concerns about lopsided appointments, corruption, insecurity and injustice in various parts of the country. Mr. Buhari gave the assurance when he received a Christian delegation led by the president of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Olasupo […]
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The Department of State Services (DSS) has produced Sambo Dasuki, former national security adviser, at the federal high court in Abuja for the trial of Olisa Metuh. Metuh, a former spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who is being tried for alleged money laundering, had requested Dasuki to appear as a witness to defend […]
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Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Friday declared his stand on raging issues, including corruption, tribalism and religion which he said were the key problems hampering Nigeria’s development. Osinbajo also talked on restructuring of Nigeria and agreed that “states should have more opportunities to develop themselves’’. Osinbajo spoke at a crowded Lagos conference, tagged: “Towards a Better […]
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A former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has expressed an intention to be joined in a criminal charge involving a senior advocate of Nigeria, Dele Belgore. Belgore was charged before Justice Mohammed Aikawa of a Federal High Court, Lagos, alongside a former Minister of National Planning, Prof. Abubakar Suleiman. The EFCC is prosecuting the […]
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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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There seem to be no end to the dogfight between incumbent governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike and his predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi. Wike has accused the former governor and minister of transportation of overwhelming corruption. Addressing the 106th Quarterly Meeting of the Rivers State Council of Traditional Rulers in Port Harcourt on Monday, He claimed […]
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Nigerian energy businessman Kola Aluko, declared wanted by the EFCC, has been identified as the owner of Apartment 79, a penthouse apartment in One57, one of New York City’s most expensive residential buildings. However, the apartment would be sold to the highest bidder by a Luxembourg based Banque Havilland, in a foreclosure auction in July, […]
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…Claims he is one of few honest Nigerians Nigeria’s minister for transportation, Rotimi Amaechi has stated that he does not like money, hence, he is not corrupt. Amaechi made the claims in an interview on Channels TV, where he said he is one of the “very few” honest Nigerians. Amaechi asked: “Is my honesty in […]
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Members of the Presidential Investigative Committee probing the recovery of $43.4million at Osborne Towers in Ikoyi, Lagos sat yesterday for more than 11 hours. They examined documents and interrogated some officials at the marathon session. Grilled were the suspended Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Amb. Ayo Oke, and some top officials of the […]
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