The Federal Government said it recovered more than N143. 89 billion from corrupt officials through the implementation of the Whistleblower policy. The Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit (PICA) disclosed this in a report made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja. The report showed that government had successfully recovered N7.8 […]
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The federal government has made first payment to the whistleblower who helped the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to recover $43m, N23.2m and £27,800 (N13bn) from an Ikoyi apartment on April 12, 2017. PUNCH reported that the whistle-blower travelled out of the country less than 24 hours after receiving part of the N421m reward. Yakubu Galadima, […]
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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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Chuck Blazer, the former FIFA executive committee member who was banned for corruption in 2015, has died. Blazer, 72, was general secretary of the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) from 1990 to 2011. He pleaded guilty in the United States to bribery and financial offences in 2013 and was later […]
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Foloowing the success recorded in the Whistle-blowing policy in Nigeria, the federal government has decided to extend whistleblowing beyond financial crimes, to illegal ownership of small arms and light weapons. The Presidency has started drawing up the rules of a whistle-blower mechanism to throw a spotlight on the regime of gun ownership and control in […]
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