An audit report has uncovered financial irregularities totalling over N4.64bn in the Federal Ministry of Works (Housing Sector), raising concerns about systemic non-compliance with financial regulations and procurement laws. The findings, contained in the Auditor-General for the Federation’s Annual Report, cover activities between 2020 and 2021 and reveal significant lapses in internal controls under Babatunde […]
The Kano Government on Tuesday filed fresh charge against former governor of the state, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje. In the charge sheet with case No. K/143c/24, the state government accused Ganduje and erstwhile Commissioner for Justice, Musa Lawan, of criminal conspiracy and misappropriation contrary to Section 308 and punishable under Section 309 of the Penal […]
Documents have shown how the $6,230,000 cash allegedly stolen from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), on February 8, 2023, was shared. President Bola Tinubu had set up a special investigative team, led by Jim Obaze, to probe the tenure of Godwin Emefiele, former CBN governor. The team had claimed that $6.2 million was […]
Mele Kyari, group chief executive officer (GCEO) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, has been invited to appear before the house of representatives committee on public petitions over an alleged “diversion” of $72 million belonging to De Coon Services Limited, an oil company. Also, the top management staff of Agip Oil and […]
A witness, Victor Onyejiuwa, has testified against the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, in his trial over alleged abuse of office and accepting of gratification to the tune of $4.5bn and N2.8bn. Onyejiuwa, the Managing Director of The Source Computers Limited, said he was allegedly pressurised by the […]
A Federal High sitting in Apo, Abuja has ordered the arrest of former Director General of the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies, Professor Ladi Aisha Hamalai for her failure to appear in the corruption case preferred against her by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC). The Court presided […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has filed a notice of withdrawal to discontinue an appeal against an order of a Kogi High Court restraining it from arresting the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello. In the notice filed on April 22, the EFCC said the withdrawal is predicated on the […]
The Kaduna state house of assembly has expressed concerns over the “subtle threat messages” directed at Yusuf Liman, the speaker of the house, by Bello el-Rufai, a federal lawmaker. Bello, a lawmaker representing Kaduna north federal constituency, is the first son of Nasir el-Rufai, former governor of the state. On Tuesday, the Kaduna house […]
Dozens of operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday, cordoned off the street where the Abuja residence of a former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, is. Our correspondent, who visited Benghazi Street in Wuse Zone 4, Abuja, reports that the stern-looking operatives of the anti-graft agency did not allow […]
The House of Representatives is expressing concern that following the suspension of the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, DR Betta Edu, the implementation of the Social Investment Programme has been halted and is affecting the masses who need these intervention the most. Following deliberations on the floor of the Green Chambers today, the lawmakers expressed […]
