More than 30 illegal miners, including 11 Chinese, who had been involved in illegal gold mining in Zamfara State, have been deported from Nigeria. The governor of Zamfara State, Alhaji Bello Matawalle, who disclosed this to State House Correspondents after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Friday, also […]
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences commission has arraigned a member of the House of Representatives , Oghuma Egwakhide, for collecting N 1. 6m bribe from three contractors. In the four -count filed before Justice Adebukola Banjoko of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory , Jabi , the ICPC said the […]
Federal government has disowned the COVID-19 palliatives discovered in a Lagos warehouse, saying the items were not from it. Rather,the government said the inscriptions seen on the back of the items indicated that they were donated by a coalition of some non-governmental organisations. Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development in a statement […]
The Federal Government has approached the National Assembly for more powers to freeze and seize stolen public funds and assets. President Muhammadu Buhari, in a letter to the House of Representatives , which the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila , read at the plenary on Wednesday, sought creation of a Proceeds of Crime ( Recovery and Management […]
The Federal Government has arraigned Dantata Success and Profitable Company and their promoters before the Federal High Court in Abuja for investment fraud amounting to over N2billion. Efe Ebelo, Head, Corporate Communications at the Securities and Exchange Commission, made this known in a statement, noted that those charged along with the company are Basira Ibrahim […]
..Alpha Beta defends Tinubu, accuses ex-MD of diverting N6bn A former Managing Director of Alpha-Beta Consulting LLP, Oladapo Apara , says the firm has got over N 150 billion as 10 per cent commission for “ computing , tracking and reconciling” Lagos State ’ s Internally Generated Revenue since the year 2000. Apara also claimed […]
..Obassa Says he was never detained A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the temporary freezing of three accounts belonging to the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly , Mudashiru Obasa. The order was pursuant to a motion ex parte filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission which is investigating […]
A former Managing Director of Alpha Beta Consulting, Mr. Oladapo Apara, has sued the company, a former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu; and the current Managing Director of the firm, Akin Doherty; before a Lagos State High Court, Igbosere. In the writ of summons marked LD/7330GCMW/2020, Apara asked the respondents to appear within 42 […]
Dapo Apara, a Nigerian chartered accountant, has accused a former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu; a consulting firm, Alpha-beta, and a former commissioner in the state, Akin Doherty, of money laundering, fraud, tax evasion, and sundry corrupt practices. Mr Apara, in writ of summons deposed to at a Lagos high court, claimed that Mr […]
The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly , Mudashiru Obasa, is in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission responding to allegations of fraud , Themselves. The spokesman for the EFCC , Wilson Uwujaren , told our correspondent that Obasa was invited and he honoured the invitation at the Lagos zone […]
