Musiliu Obanikoro, a former minister of state for defence, has narrated how N1.219 billion cash was airlifted to Ayodele Fayose, former Ekiti state governor, in 2014. Giving evidence as a witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday, Obanikoro told the court that he received the money from Sambo Dasuki, former […]
.……Says He Must Account For His Wasted 8 Years in office The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), has been told to beam its fresh searchlight on the former Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano’s eight years reign. Executive Director, Human Rights, Liberty Access and Peace Defenders Foundation and Chairman, Campaign for Democracy, South […]
Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr Femi Falana, says it is against the federal character principle for the chairmen of the two anti-graft federal agencies in Nigeria to come from the same geopolitical zone. The senior lawyer said if the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) […]
Ibe Kachikwu, a former minister of state for petroleum resources, has been mentioned in the criminal charges levelled against Diezani Alison-Madueke. Alison-Madueke, who was Nigeria’s minister of petroleum resources between 2010 and 2015, is charged with receiving bribes in the form of cash, luxury goods, flights on private jets and the use of high-end […]
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has invited some top officials of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) for questioning over gratuity payment of N47m to the Managing Director of the Fund, Mrs Maureen Allagoa. In a letter dated September 14, 2023, with reference number ICPC/SSD/TB/197/2023 and directed to […]
Justice A. T. Mohammed of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has convicted and sentenced a former Special Adviser to Dan Abia, erstwhile managing director of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) George Turnah, and two others: Ebis Orubebe and Uzorgor Silas Chidebere, to six years imprisonment for obtaining money under […]
The Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC), Mele Kyari, and the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (MMDPRA), Farouk Ahmed have shunned the probe panel constituted by the house of representatives to investigate irregularities alleged corruption in the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation […]
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says it has arraigned Yildiyel Takat, an assistant director at the office of the accountant-general of the federation (OAGF), over alleged employment scam, fraud and conspiracy. The anti-corruption agency also arraigned Nankpat Dukbong, an administration officer at the National Space Research and Development Agency […]
The nation’s number one anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has reportedly invited eight former ministers, who served under former President Muhammadu Buhari. Sources disclosed that the eight former minister were all invited for questioning over allegations bordering on corruption. The invitation letters, according to sources, requested the former top government […]
The Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle, has accused the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa of abusing his office. Matawalle said he and some “eminent Nigerians” have evidence of Bawa’s corruption and urged him to submit himself for investigation. He made these accusations on Wednesday in a press statement. He […]
