The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured a court order to keep the Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, in its custody for more days. Recall that the EFCC had on Monday arrested the accountant general in connection with the diversion of funds and money laundering activities to the tune of N80 […]
Minister of Finance Budget and National Planning Mrs Zainab Ahmed has suspended the embattled Accountant General of the Federation Ahmed Idris. The suspension letter marked HMFBNP/AGF/SUSPENSION/5/2022 and dated 18th May, 2022 said the suspension became necessary “to allow for proper and unhindered investigation in to the serious allegations in line with Public Service Rules […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Patricia Etteh, over a shady contract worth N240m awarded by the Niger Delta Development Commission, THEPUNCH reports. Etteh, it was learnt, was at the Abuja office of the EFCC on Tuesday and as of 9pm, she’s yet to […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday, arrested Ahmed Idris, accountant-general of the federation, over alleged fraud. Idris was said to have been arrested in Kano. Though details of the arrest are still sketchy, the commission, in a statement on Monday, said it is investigating him over alleged misappropriation of funds to […]
Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, has said that the President will not investigate how aspirants got the whopping sums of money they spent on buying the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential nomination forms. He disclosed this while featuring on a Channels TV programme on […]
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has filed a lawsuit against the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), asking the court to “declare illegal, and incompatible with the oath of office and public interest, the recent pardon granted to former governors of Plateau State, Senator Joshua Dariye, and Taraba State, Jolly Nyame who are […]
The National Crime Agency (NCA) in the UK says it has recovered $23,439,724.98 loot believed to have been siphoned out of Nigeria in the 1990s by the associates and family of former Head of State, General Sani Abacha. According to a communique issued by the agency on Thursday, the funds formed part of a […]
Abidemi Rufai, a former Senior Special Assistant to Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has pleaded guilty to his role in a $350,763 heist in the United States. According to The Seattle Times, 45-year-old Rufai pleaded guilty on Tuesday in US District Court in Tacoma to charges that he used stolen Social Security numbers and […]
Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation and a presidential hopeful on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says Nigerians must hold politicians accountable for their actions in governance. He spoke on Tuesday at the 2022 World Press Freedom Day organised by the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom capital. […]
An Abuja-based human rights lawyer, Pelumi Olajengbesi, has condemned the promotion of former acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, to the rank of an Assistant Inspector-General of Police. The lawyer said the development was a spit on all Nigerians and another testament that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari […]
