Crime Facts

ICPC blocks N189bn unspent funds in MDAs

  Mr Bako Nathan, Head, Special Operations, Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), says the commission has blocked unspent funds of government agencies totalling N189 billion in 2019 and 2020, collectively. Nathan disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja before the House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee investigating alleged corruption and abuse of […]

Despite deaths, resignations, MDA’s bills keep rising – ICPC

  The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offices Commission has said it uncovered fresh 3,309 employment in 26 ministries, departments and agencies. The commission added that the recruitments were uncovered amidst denials by the respective MDAs. The ICPC stated that it uncovered the state of employment when it sent an inquiry to the Office […]

‘N5.2bn fraud’: Ojerinde, ex-JAMB registrar, faces trial as plea bargain talks with ICPC fail

  The plea bargain talks between Adedibu Ojerinde, former registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) have fallen through. The ICPC arraigned Ojerinde on July 6, 2021, in a suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/97/2021, on an 18-count charge bordering on alleged misappropriation of funds […]