Lecturers of Nigeria’s public tertiary institutions divert research grants for the purchase of houses, cars and other personal effects, the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has alleged. PremiumTimes reports that the allegation was made in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Monday, by TETFund’s Director of Research and Development, Salihu Bakari, who said that huge sums of money
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has said that the suspended Chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), Mr. Okoi Obono-Obla, is on its list of wanted persons. This also as the Commission urged Obono-Obla to turn himself in and clear his name. Addressing
The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the 12-year jail term served on former Taraba governor Jolly Nyame by the lower court over N1.6bn corruption charge. The apex court, however, set aside all fines imposed on the former governor by the appellate court. Delivering judgment, Justice Amina Augie held that the Court of Appeal’s decision to
The Court of Appeal sitting in Ilorin the Kwara State capital has upheld the judgment of a High Court which handed down a 12-year jail term to a former Chairman of the Governing Council of Kwara State Polytechnic, Dr. Saadu Alanamu. Crimefacts.news reports that Dr. Alanamu who was nominated into the Board of the Independent
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested the candidate of the Action Democratic Party for last year’s Anambra State governorship poll, Chief Ifeanyichukwu Okonkwo. Okonkwo was arrested by the anti-corruption agency after he instituted a N65bn law suit against the commission. It was learnt that the EFCC had earlier detained Okonkwo for two
A prosecution witness, Inspector Anthony Iliya, told an Upper Area Court in Zuba, FCT that a teacher, Akum-Chukwu Dolibi, defrauded four job seekers of N855,000. The police charged Dolibi, a teacher with the Union Secondary School Zuba, Abuja was charged with criminal breach of trust and cheating on July 1, 2019. The offence, the police said,
In its sustained determination to recover assets acquired with the proceeds of crime by corrupt persons, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has secured an Interim Forfeiture Order on two assets located at Sabon Lugbe, Abuja. Crimefacts.news learnt that following a motion ex parte filed by counsel to ICPC, John Paul Okwor, Justice
A Popular music artist, Duncan Mighty who was in the early hours of Saturday arrested in Owerri, the Imo state capital, in a commando-style operation by men of the Anti-Kidnapping Squad (AKS) of the Imo State Police command may have asked for what he got. Duncan Mighty, who was one of the celebrity artists invited
The trial of Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman, Pensions Reform Task Team, and his son, Faisal continued on December 11, 2019 before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC presented more witnesses against them. Testifying as the second prosecution witness, PW2, against Maina, Fatima Abdulahi, a
