The Inspector-General of Police has dragged the Deputy Chief of Staff to Governor Gboyega Oyetola of Osun State, Abdullahi Binuyo, to a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, over alleged fraud involving $120,000. Binuyo was charged for conspiracy, fraud, cheating and forgery in a suit numbered CR/975/2020 filed on September 9, 2020. Rimamsomte […]

Following the N2.67 billion school feeding money the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) said it uncovered in private bank accounts, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) yesterday queried the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development of Nigeria, Sadiya Umar Farouq, to publish details and names of suspects. […]

The interim Coordinating Committee of the Alliance on Surviving Covid-19 And Beyond (ASCAB) has written a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, debunking the claim that fuel subsidy was removed because it benefits only the rich and not the masses. The group went ahead to pulverize the lack of funds argument, listing areas where N94 trillion […]

Yusuf Bichi, Director-General of the Department of State Services, has activated a lopsided hiring process that could overfill the security agency with personnel from the Northern part of Nigeria. According to an online tabloid, Peoples Gazette, official documents and contributions of senior intelligence officials showed that the North had a massive share of the roughly […]

The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajia Sadiya Umar Farouq has dissociated herself from a trending report in the media titled “N2.72b for School Feeding During Lockdown Diverted To Private Accounts.” The report emanated after a presentation by the Chairman of ICPC, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye at the 2nd National Summit on […]

…seizes N16b from Ministry of Agriculture The Chairman , Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission , Prof Bolaji Owasanoye, said the agency has discovered N 2. 67 billion meant for the school feeding programme in private accounts . The agency, he added , also found over N 2. 5b diverted by a deceased […]

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari requesting him to “instruct Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation to take immediate steps to expeditiously, diligently, effectively and fairly prosecute high-profile corruption cases, and to publish details of the whereabouts of allegedly […]

A General Court Martial convened by the Nigerian Airforce to try four Airforce personnel including one Flight Lieutenant, one Flying Officer, one Master Warrant Officer, has found all the officers guilty of misappropriating the sum of #41million and sentenced them to 21 years imprisonment while the most senior officer, a Flight Lieutenant will lose 6 […]

The Police at Force headquarters on Friday paraded 17 suspects including School Principals, Teachers and Supervisors who were caught engaging in examination malpractices during the last West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) in the country. The 17 suspects were arrested from Kano, Bauchi, Nasarawa and Rivers state. while other suspects nabbed for similar malpractices in Delta, […]