Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has revealed that there are as many members of the All Progressives Congress facing corruption charges before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, as there are members of the Peoples Democratic Party. The minister, speaking on Channels TV on Sunday, February 28, said the allegations that the current administration’s... Read More
The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption, Professor Itse Sagay, on Friday, asked the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) to disregard the open letter written by former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammad Adoke, to the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo. Sagay further called on the anti-graft agency to... Read More
The House of Representative Committee on Army has stated that soldiers fighting the war against insurgency in the North-east do not have adequate arms and ammunitions, contrary to the claims of the military. The committee revealed that the soldiers still rationed arms and ammunition in their war against terrorists. Chairman of the committee, Rima Shawulu,... Read More
As the trial of Peoples Democratic Party spokesperson, Olisa Metuh continues, an agent of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has revealed to a court that the PDP chieftain destroyed a statement he wrote for the agency because former president Goodluck Jonathan was implicated in it. Testifying before the court, the agent, Junaid Said revealed that Metuh... Read More
Deputy National Chairman of the PDP, Elder Uche Secondus who has been in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission since Tuesday, February 23. He’s reportedly being quizzed about an alleged fleet of 25 exotic cars bought for top officials of the Peoples Democratic Party by the promoter of Atlantic Energy Concepts Limited,... Read More
Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has denied that he is involved in the ordeal of a former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke (SAN) after he was picked up by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Adoke had written a letter to Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo naming Atiku as one of the key... Read More
“If you don’t fight corruption, you cannot even deal with the economy, you need to hold corrupt people accountable because they stole the money meant for the economy,” says Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo. The Vice-president stated this on Tuesday, while speaking with delegation of the Trade Union Congress at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Osinbajo, who noted... Read More
Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has bemoaned the fact that corruption is prevalent in all sectors, religions and ethnic groups in Nigeria. The VP said from Nigeria requires a ‘new tribe of men and women’ who are committed to making sacrifices to achieve a strong, corruption-free society. Speaking on Sunday, at the annual dinner of... Read More
Governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose has slammed the Federal Government for attempting to secretly try the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu. The Federal Government had in the trial of Kanu for charges bordering on treason, requested for a secret trial at a Federal High court in Abuja. Reacting to... Read More
Acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu has been a major player in the ongoing fight against corruption. As the acting chairman of the nation’s leading anti-graft agency, Magu’s stand against corruption has been evident in the series of arrests of suspected corrupt individuals, which have been made in recent time.... Read More
In other climes, the kind of corruption witnessed in Nigeria in the past, would be described as a crime against humanity, says the Vice-President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo. Osinbajo on Thursday, berated the former leaders of Nigeria, whom he says shamelessly pilfered the nation’s coffers. A statement released by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and... Read More
More information has emerged in the ongoing corruption investigation of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The Punch Newspapers reports that new fraudulent findings such as the payment of more than N3 billion on shady contracts and projects that weren’t carried out between January 2013 and December 2014,... Read More
A monarch in Ondo state has been reportedly questioned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for his alleged involvement in financial crimes. The Olugbo of Ugboland, Fredrick Obateru Akinruntan, also known as Obat is the chairman of Obat Oil Limited and an alleged benefactor of the fuel subsidy scam. According to Sahara Reporters, an EFCC source... Read More
Former militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo also known as Tompolo has requested a Federal High Court in Lagos to release the certified copy of its ruling to him. The request followed Tompolo’s decision to appeal the order of arrest issued against him by the court after he refused to show up for previous trials. Justice Ibrahim Buba... Read More
The trial of former governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswan and his commissioner of Finance, Okolobia Okpanachi resumed on Monday, February 15, as a prosecution witness told the court how N1 billion was laundered by the governor. The witness, Brijid Shiedie, MD/CEO, Benue Investment and Property Company Limited told the court presided over by Justice... Read More
Peoples Democratic Party chieftain, Ebenezer Babatope, says any attempt by the federal government’s anti-graft agencies to probe former president Goodluck Jonathan, would be an ‘exercise in futility’. The calls and clamour for the probe of the former President- over the alleged diversion of public funds under his watch- is nearing fever pitch. However, the PDP... Read More
Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Program, Brigadier General Paul Boroh has denied reports alleging that he purchased official vehicles for his office worth N157 million. Boroh also said he never inflated the amount believed to have been spent on training the ex-militants between November and December of 2015. In a press statement released on Monday,... Read More
Former President, Goodluck Jonathan must be prosecuted for corruption, says the Lagos state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria. Speaking on Saturday at an interdenominational service in Lagos, the Chairman of Lagos CAN, Apostle Alexander Bamgbola, commended the ongoing war against corruption in the country. Bamgbola said the war must be all-encompassing while giving... Read More
The Chief of Metropolitan Police, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe has been put on blast over claims that the Scotland Yard and the Crown Prosecution Service were complicit in a “deliberate cover-up” of evidences of police corruption that is crucial to the conviction of former governor of Delta state, James Ibori. James Ibori was sentenced to 13... Read More
These, certainly are not the best of times for the grex venalium (the venal crowd) popularly known by ordinary Nigerians as treasury looters. The ongoing battle by President Muhammadu Buhari against this corrupt cabal who have held this nation hostage for years leaves no one in doubt that it is no longer business as usual... Read More
The Code of Conduct Tribunal has fixed Thursday, March 10 for the resumption of the trial of Senate President, Bukola Saraki on 13 counts of false assets declaration. The CCT made the announcement after receiving a letter from Rotimi Jacobs (SAN) on behalf of the Federal Government informing the Tribunal of the judgement of the... Read More
Rickey Tarfa has lost his bid to stop the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission from prosecuting him at a Federal High Court in Lagos. The anti-graft agency had on Monday, February 8 charged the Lagos based lawyer on a two-count charge bordering on obstruction of justice and attempting to pervert the course of justice. Tarfa... Read More
A Court of Appeal sitting in Yola has reversed the impeachment of Murtala Nyako as Governor of Adamawa. Back in July 15, 2014, 17 out of 25 members of the Adamawa State House of Assembly had adopted a report of a panel that investigated alleged corruption of Nyako as governor of the state and thereafter... Read More
The trial of the accused persons involved in the N24 billion police pension scam continued on Tuesday, Febraury 10 at a Federal High Court in Abuja. The trial was presided over by Justice Baba Yusuf with Rotimi Jacobs, the prosecution lawyer bringing in the fourth withness, Mustapha Gadanya in evidence. Gadanya, who formerly worked for... Read More
The president of the Nigerian Bar Association, Augustine Alegeh, has criticised the federal government over the recent statements that the judiciary is impeding the anti-corruption war. The top lawyer stated this while speaking at a valedictory session in honor of retiring Supreme Court justice, Justice Mohammed Muntaka-Coomassie. Alegeh said: “The NBA condemns in its entirety... Read More
The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibrahim Magu, on Wednesday, urged members of the Nigerian Bar Association to support the anti-corruption war by the Buhari administration. Magu stated this when the member of the association paid him a courtesy visit at his office. The address which was titled: “The NBA... Read More
Following his victory at the Supreme Court, Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike, had reiterated his earlier calls that former governor of the state, now Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, had mismanaged the state funds and used it to fund the ruling All Progressives Congress party. However, Amaechi, in a statement on Monday, debunked the allegations... Read More
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, in Bauchi, Alhaji Shuia’abu Ahmed has advised President Buhari to take to more stricter legal methods of dealing with corruption. While speaking to News Agency of Nigeria in Bauchi on Sunday, February 7, Ahmed said that government officials dipping into public funds are more terrible than armed robbers... Read More
Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee against corruption, Prof. itse Sagay, in an interview with Vanguard stated that the Nigerian judiciary is frustrating President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s war on corruption. Sagay, a Professor of law and a human rights activist, also said that the president’s war on corruption was not partisan or one sided, while... Read More
Fellow Nigerians, if you are a Christian you must definitely be familiar with the concept of deliverance. Just in case you are a non-Christian and you don’t know what it is to be delivered, then let me explain it the best way I can. A man or woman who requires deliverance is presumed to suffer... Read More
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