The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) is enmeshed in a wide-scale certificate forgery and age falsification scandal, involving dozens staff, Daily Trust authoritatively gathered. With many senior staff found to have been involved in the illegalities, it was learnt that a grand plan was being hatched by the board and management […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday secured the conviction of Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of the now-defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), A Federal High Court in Abuja sentenced Maina, to eight years imprisonment following a N2.1billion pension scam. Earlier in 2019, Maina was arraigned by the EFCC, but he pleaded not […]
The Chairman, Bida Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State, Dr Suleiman Sheshi, has been suspended by the legislative arm of the LGA. The letter of suspension, dated November 8, 2021, and addressed to the governor of the state, Abubakar Sani Bello, was obtained by Daily Trust. The letter was signed by the House Leader, […]
Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), has been sentenced to 61 years in prison. Justice Okon Abang of a Federal High Court in Abuja handed the jail term to Maina on Monday. It is to run concurrently for eight years. The judge convicted Maina for stealing N2 billion meant for […]
Almost sixteen months after he was suspended from office, the erstwhile acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, is being paid half-salary by the authorities. Based on the Public Service Rules, Magu while on interdiction. would only get half-pay pending the determination of his case. Magu, a Commissioner of Police, was […]
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the interim forfeiture of houses and cars linked to convicted cybercriminal Obinwanne George Okeke also known as Invictus Obi. Justice Peter Lifu made the order on October 29, 2021, sequel to an ex parte motion filed and argued by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) counsel, […]
Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Professor Bolaji Owasanoye disclosed that the Agency had successfully recovered 301 houses from two public officers in the nation’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The revelation came at the inauguration of the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Investigation of the Operations of […]
The Imo State Police Command on Wednesday arrested some police officers who allegedly demanded a bribe of N60,000 from one Victor Aguwah, travelling from Sam Mbakwe Airport in Imo state, to his Mbaise village. The State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Micheal Abattam, confirmed this in a statement to newsmen in Owerri. The command said […]
As part of the list of assets forfeited by Diezani Alison-Madueke, former petroleum minister, personal effects like bras and waist trainers are not left out. Diezani had fled the county shortly before former President Goodluck Jonathan handed over to President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015. She is alleged to have stolen $2.5 billion from the Nigerian […]
There appears to be no respite yet for the former governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, as the Federal Government on Monday asked the Court of Appeal in Abuja to order his fresh trial in an alleged N7.1 billion money laundering corruption charges. Share There appears to be no respite yet for the […]
