Two associate directors of the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) have been suspended for initiating investigations against Atiku Abubakar and Bola Ahmed Tinubu, documents seen by PREMIUM TIMES have shown. The two NFIU officials, Mohammed Mustapha, the associate director, Intelligence and Investigation, and Fehintola Salisu, associate director, Compliance and Analysis, were suspended in August, about […]
A Swiss lawyer, Enrico Monfrini says he has been working for the past twenty years to recover funds looted by the Sani Abacha government. Speaking to the BBC, Mr Monfrini said he was first contacted by the civilian government of President Olusegun Obasanjo to help with the recovery. He also explained some of his findings […]
The Federal Government says Amnesty International (AI) is becoming an irritant with disinformation and double standard and will soon lose its respect and credibility. The government said this position in response to the AI’s allegation of cover up in the handling of the purported crackdown and killings of EndSARS protesters at Lekki Toll Gate, Lagos […]
Nigeria has recorded its worst rating on Transparency International’s (TI) Corruption Perception Index since 2015. In the 2020 index released on Thursday, the country scored 25 out of 100 points, dropping to 149 out of the 180 countries surveyed, taking the nation three steps down from the 146 scored in 2019. According to Transparency International, […]
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday ordered a final forfeiture of about N 284, 306, 294. 04 linked to a former governor of Zamfara , Abdulaziz Yari, to the Federal Government . The money was said to have been lodged with Zenith Bank Plc and Polaris Bank . Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the […]
The Imo state government on Monday took a swipe at a former governor of the state, Rochas Okorocha by saying that he was “ shameless . ” The State Commissioner for Information and Strategy , Declan Emelumba, accused Okorocha of squandering the state resources within the eight years he held sway as the governor of […]
The former Chairman of the disbanded Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), Mr Okoi Obono-Obla, has been arraigned in court by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), on allegation of offences bordering on fraud. He was arraigned before Justice Olukayode Adeniyi, of the Federal Capital Territory […]
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed another suit filed by the Sani Abacha family seeking access to the looted funds which they and the late Nigerian dictator stashed in foreign bank accounts. PREMIUM TIMES reports that the suit filed in the name of Ali Abacha, was dismissed by a five-man panel led by Sylvester Ngwuta […]
….He should stop his relentless war against me Ibe Pascal Arogorn, Owerri The former governor of Imo state, Senator Rochas Okorocha has described the administration of Senator Hope Uzodimma, the incumbent governor of Imo state as funny and child’s play. The current Senator representing Imo west senatorial district stated this in a statement on Thursday […]
Further hearing in the trial of a former Chief of Air Staff (COAS), Air Marshal Adesola Amosu Nunayon (rtd) and two others continued Tuesday before Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of a Federal High Court in Lagos with a prosecution witness narrating how the defendants allegedly diverted the sum of N3 billion credited to the Nigeria Air […]
