Former Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo, on Tuesday, urged the Federal High Court, Abuja, to make an order setting aside the seizure and sealing of some of his property by the state government. Okorocha also asked Justice Ahmed Mohammed to restrain the defendants from investigating him or implement the recommendations of the seven panels set […]
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has fixed October 7, to hear a motion seeking the final forfeiture of the sum of $5.78 million and ₦2.4 billion, linked to a former first lady, Patience Jonathan. Justice Tijjani Ringim fixed the date on Monday after taking arguments from counsel to the parties in the matter. […]
The Senate on Monday berated the management of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund over an alleged misappropriation of N84bn within four years. The Senate Public Accounts Committee stated this while scrutinising the 2017 report of the Auditor General for the Federation. The Chairman of SPAC, Matthew Urhoghide, alleged that N84bn was misappropriated within four […]
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday blamed corruption and lack of transparency, among other factors, for poor contract negotiations in Nigeria. The Vice President made the comment while addressing a two-day capacity building workshop for negotiators. The workshop, organised by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) in Abuja, seeks to help Nigeria […]
A professor of law, Yemi Akinseye-George (SAN), has said it is impossible for the federal government to charge Femi Otedola, oil magnate, with bribery in the case involving Hon Farouk Lawan, who was handed a 7-year jail sentence on Tuesday. Lawan, the former chairman of the House of Representatives ad-hoc Committee which probed fuel subsidy, […]
A High Court in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has sentenced the former Chairman of the House of Representatives ad-hoc committee on Petroleum Subsidy, Farouk Lawan to seven years in prison. Lawan during trial on Tuesday was found guilty of count one, two, and three bothering on corruptly asking for and obtaining same from Femi […]
A former Managing Director of Alpha Beta LLP, Mr. Dapo Apara, has filed a suit before a Lagos State High Court asking it to stop a former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, from controlling the finances of Alpha Beta. In the suit filed by Mr Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN) on behalf of Apara on Wednesday, […]
The Senate Public Accounts Committee has declared that its investigations so far revealed that civil servants are more corrupt than the political class. The Chairman of SPAC, Senator Matthew Urhoghide, stated this in an exclusive interview with our correspondent in Abuja. The Senate panel, which is the only standing committee of the red chamber recognised […]
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State on Thursday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to hand over a minister under his watch fingered for corruption to security agencies for prosecution. Ortom made the appeal to the president while answering questions from newsmen in Makurdi shortly after delivering his keynote speech at the Makurdi branch of Nigerian Bar […]
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Abdularasheed Bawa has said former Abia State governor, Orji Uzor Kalu will be prosecuted by the agency all over again. The anti-graft agency boss also said he is not perturbed over the threats to his life and he is determined to prosecute the many pending cases […]
