The Prof. Itse Sagay- led Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption , on Wednesday , accused the Attorney- General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami ( SAN) , of having well- known proclivity for aborting high -profile criminal cases in favour of major political and governmental figures . The PACAC , in a […]
Mr Mike Igini, INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Akwa Ibom, on Tuesday said that three university lecturers had been confirmed to have been involved in electoral malpractice during the 2019 general elections. Igini, who addressed newsmen at the INEC office in Uyo, said that three officials of the electoral body had also been sacked […]
The United States Government says it has imposed a visa restriction on some individuals for their actions during the November 2019 Kogi and Bayelsa state elections and in the run -up to the September and October 2020 Edo and Ondo state elections . Although elections have not yet held in Edo and Ondo states , […]
Two prominent Nigerian lawyers, who appeared for Ibrahim Magu, the suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, were on Monday walked out of the venue of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry taking place at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on orders of the chairman, Justice Ayo Salami. The reason for the stoppage of […]
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan and Speaker of House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila over “their failure to publish reports of all completed public hearings and corruption probes by the National Assembly since 1999, and failure to disclose the number of probes that […]
Delta State College of Education Provost, Warri, Mary Edema, is currently enmeshed in an alleged fraud, SaharaReporters has reported. The provost, as reliably gathered, used N36m to build two toilets in the institution funded by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund. Speaking under the condition of anonymity, a senior staff of the institution told our correspondent […]
Cairo Ojougboh, executive director of projects at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), says there will be chaos if the full list of those who were awarded contracts by the commission is released. Godswill Akpabio, minister of Niger Delta affairs, had named some beneficiaries after the house of representatives threatened to sue him. While appearing […]
President Mohammadu Buhari has been asked to prevail on the Justice Minister and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, to release the file on corruption charges against a senator, Dino Melaye. The former senator who represented Kogi West, was accused of various corrupt acts that range from operating dubious foreign accounts using fictitious names […]
Socio- Economic Rights and Accountability Project has filed a lawsuit against the President, Muhammadu Buhari over the failure to disclose information and documents relating to the names of people from whom N 800bn looted public funds have been recovered, specific dates of the recovery , and details of projects on which the money had been […]
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has quizzed top management staff of the Niger Delta Development Commission and recovered documents on the diversion of funds, procurement fraud and misappropriation of N 5. 4 billion COVID – 19 fund by the officials . The ICPC said some NDDC directors were interrogated at its […]
