The trial of erstwhile Senior Special Assistant, SSA, to Kwara State governor on Millenium Development Goals, MDGs, Alhaji Ope Saraki, commenced on Thursday with the prosecution calling its star witness, Kunle Adimula, according to EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren. Saraki, a cousin to the immediate past president of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki allegedly collected a […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has arraigned a university professor who served as a collation/returning officer in the 2019 general elections in Akwa Ibom State. Professor Peter Ogban of the University of Uyo in the state capital was the collation/returning officer for Akwa Ibom North-West National Assembly election. He was arraigned on Tuesday on […]
A former Executive Secretary of the Adamawa State Christian Pilgrims Welfare Board, Bishop Luscious Mayo has been handed a seven-year jail term for financial misappropriation. A cashier who served under him, Rhoda Thompson, was similarly jailed seven years. A high court in the state capital, Yola, passed the judgement on Monday, freeing two other defendants […]
The former Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Babatunde Fowler, on Monday returned to the Lagos office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for questioning over his alleged involvement in financial misappropriation of funds under his watch. According to reports, a fresh N9.2bn was found in Fowler’s personal account from Lagos Inland Revenue […]
The minister of Transport, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, and the Director-General of the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), Mamman Ahmadu have been dragged before a Federal High Court in Abuja, over alleged violation of the Public Procurement Act in the award of Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of Port Harcourt- Maiduguri, Eastern Narrow Gauge Railway line. In the […]
The house of representatives is investigating Lantewa Fatsuma Lawal, a deputy director of accounts at the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP). Lawal, from Bade local government area of Yobe state, is on grade level 16. The deputy director was reportedly born in 1996 but gained employment in 1992. The house committee on public procurement discovered […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has told the Federal High Court in Lagos that the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel, spent state funds to hire many Senior Advocates of Nigeria to represent him at the election tribunal where his electoral victory as governor was being challenged in 2015. An investigating officer of […]
Benjamin Kalu, spokesman of the house of representatives, says cut in the cost of governance should begin with the executive arm of government. Speaking with journalists in Abuja on Thursday, Kalu said the national assembly only gets 0.8 percent of the country’s annual budget while the executive is in control of 99.902 percent. Many civil […]
Isiaka Kareem, a witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and a former controller of finance and account (CFA) at the Kwara state government house, has denied making payments to the bank accounts of Bukola Saraki, former president of the senate. Kareem told the Lagos federal high court on Wednesday that the N100 […]
Titus Okunrinboye, a witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the ongoing trial of Taminu Turaki, former minister of special duties and inter-governmental affairs, admitted embezzling contract funds while serving in the ministry. Currently an accountant at the office of the head of service of the federation, Okunrinboye, who was head of […]
