Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State has accused the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, of demanding $2 million bribe from him. He made the allegation amid the growing rift between the governor and the anti-graft agency. In a statement on Wednesday, Matawalle called for Bawa’s resignation, saying […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has asked a former minister of Niger Delta Affairs and senator-elect for Akwa Ibom North-West District, Godswill Akpabio, to report at its headquarters in Abuja for interrogation over a corruption investigation against him. Mr Akpabio is one of the contenders for the office of the Senate president […]
The Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, has responded to the House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating allegations of illegal crude oil export to global destinations from 2014 to date. Malami’s position was made known in a letter to the committee on Thursday indicating that the Ministry […]
The House of Representatives alleged yesterday said that the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, SAN, was in receipt of funds accrued from the sale of 48 million barrels of crude oil in a China deal without remitting same to the federation account. Chairman of the ad hoc committee […]
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, has disowned the N206 billion inserted into the ministry’s 2023 budget estimates. Farouq, at a budget defence session with the Senate Committee on Special Duties on Monday, said her ministry was surprised that the fund, meant to implement projects for the North […]
The Ministry of Finance, Budget, and National Planning is among 207 Ministries, Agencies, and Departments (MDAs) of the Federal Government and security agencies being probed over how they spent N4,94 trillion disbursed to them from the Service Wide Votes (SWV) in the last five years. Others being quizzed by the Senate Public Accounts Committee […]
The senate committee on public account says it has commenced an investigation into the employment scheme of 774,000 Nigerians recruited for the special public works programme. In April 2020, the federal government approved the recruitment of 774,000 Nigerians on special public works programme with the mandate of 1000 people per LGA. The special public […]
No fewer than 72 police officers and men have been indicted by the Independent Investigation Panel on Human Rights Violations committed by the disbanded Special Armed Robbery Squad of the Nigerian Police Force. At the same time, the Panel has recommended the payment of N438.88 million to the victims of police brutality. This is […]
Femi Falana, human rights advocate, has called on the federal government to reopen investigation into the disappearance of Bagauda Kaltho, a journalist. Kaltho, a journalist with The News magazine at the time, was said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1996. The journalist’s disappearance is steeped in conspiracy theories. There is the claim […]
Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) invaded the Kaduna residence of arrested terrorists’ negotiator, Tukur Mamu, in the early hours of Thursday. The operatives came in about 20 vehicles in what a witness described as a commando-styled operation. “They ransacked the house and carted away documents, phones and laptops. Those in the […]
