Nigeria Is Losing Trillions To Corruption, Say Forensic Expe...
Forensic experts yesterday alleged growing cases of fraud, cybercrime and corruption in the country despite government’s effort to address t... Continue Reading
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Corruption Is Killing Nigeria’s Economy – EFCC Boss, Magu...
Acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has said that corruption is killing the country’s grow... Continue Reading
Saraki-led Senate blocked Magu’s confirmation because of ...
The Alaafin of Oyo Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III, on Thursday August 1 alleged that the Saraki-led Senate blocked the confirmation of Ibr... Continue Reading
PDP urges Senate to submit ministerial nominees list to EFCC
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the leadership of the Senate to further give credibility to the ministerial screening by sendin... Continue Reading
Zimbabwe arrests female minister, Prisca Mupfumira for corru...
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has arrested Environment, Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister Prisca Mupfumira on alleg... Continue Reading
Fifa hands Caf executive committee member Musa Bility long-t...
Former Liberia chief Bility has been suspended by the world football’s governing body after being found guilty of corruption Confederation o... Continue Reading
South Africa’s watchdog accuse President Cyril Ramapho...
South Africa’s watchdog has accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of misleading parliament and potential money laundering over a campaign ... Continue Reading
NYSC: EFCC Begins Move To End Fraudulent Mobilisation
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has pledged to support the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) in combating fraudulent ... Continue Reading
Many Corrupt Nigerian Leaders Started With Exam Fraud –...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said it is determined to sanitize the examination sub-sector in Nigeria, noting that... Continue Reading
Osinbajo’s Firm Linked To Company Fingered In Alleged ...
A company in which Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has a stake, Simmons Coopers Partners, has been linked to another firm, Ocean Trust Limited,... Continue Reading
Imo Governor Uncovers 250 Accounts Operated By Rochas Okoroc...
Imo State Governor, Emeka Ihedioha, has announced his readiness to sign an Executive Order to bring into force the use of the Treasury Singl... Continue Reading
Any Police Officer Who Collects Money For Bail Is A Kidnappe...
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Zubairu Muazu, on Tuesday inaugurated a statement-taking room for the CID Panti, Yaba, warning t... Continue Reading
AfCFTA: What Buhari Said after Signing Agreement
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Sunday declared Nigeria’s commitment to trade and African integration. He spoke in Niamey at the opening of t... Continue Reading
Copa America Bosses Blast Messi After Corruption Claims
South American football bosses say accusations questioning the integrity of the Copa America are “unfounded” and “represent a lack of respec... Continue Reading
FRSC Boss Issues Stern Warning To Corps Marshals, Reveals Wh...
Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Commission, Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi, has warned officers and men of the corps to shun bribery and corrup... Continue Reading
Atiku Speaks On EFCC Prosecuting Saraki For Corruption
Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, 2019 presidential candidate, on Tuesday declared that there is nothing wrong with the EFC... Continue Reading
‘Sanwo-Olu should instill sanity on roads, hospitals’
An advocacy group, Africa Association of Professional Freight Forwarders and Logistic of Nigeria (APFFLON), has called on Governor Babajide ... Continue Reading
Fuel subsidy, debts bleeding treasury, says NECA
The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA) has expressed concern over the unsustainable fuel subsidy regime and the burden the c... Continue Reading
Magu Came To Beg Me For Confirmation, Saraki Tells CJ
Former Senate President Bukola Saraki says the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, visited hi... Continue Reading
Corruption Thrives In The Executive Too, Secondus Replies Bu...
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Uche Secondus, on Thursday, alleged that monumental corruption was going on in the ex... Continue Reading
MKO Abiola: Why Obasanjo, IBB, Jonathan Were Absent During J...
Balarabe Musa, Chairman of the Conference of Nigeria Political Parties, CNPP, and former Governor of Kaduna State, has adduced two reasons w... Continue Reading
Nepotism Is Corruption, Obasanjo Tells Presidency
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has lamented that nepotism in Nigeria is obstructing the fight against corruption.In what seemed like rep... Continue Reading
PDP Probes Senators, Reps For Voting Lawan, Gbajabiamila
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is launching investigation into the role played by its members in the election of leadership of the Natio... Continue Reading
FIFA Takes Over AFCON 2019 Over Alleged Corruption In CAF
Breaking! FIFA to take total control of soccer in Africa on the eve of 2019 AFCON over alleged corruption in CAF . The world football govern... Continue Reading
Ex-UEFA President, Platini Arrested in France
Former UEFA president, Michel Platini was arrested by the French police on Tuesday morning in Nanterre, a western suburb of Paris. According... Continue Reading
Obasanjo Accuses Buhari Of Corruption, Says He Tampered With...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has accused President Buhari of corruption and tampering with the operations of the Economic and Financia... Continue Reading
Fighting Corruption Shouldn’t Take A Decade -Rwandan Preside...
Rwandan President, Paul Kagame, has commended President Muhammadu Buhari and other African leaders on their fight against corruption. He mad... Continue Reading
I Will Surrender My Immunity If Found Guilty Of Corruption &...
He disclosed that the lawmakers would get a bill seeking to establish the Oyo State Anti-Corruption Agency immediately after the inauguratio... Continue Reading
“I Like The Way Buhari Fights Corruption” –...
Here is what Reno Omokri thinks about the way Buhari fights corruption using Danjuma Goje as a case study. Continue Reading
French Authorities Release CAF President, Ahmad
President of the Confederation of African Football, CAF; Ahmad Ahmad has been released. He was released by French anti-corruption officials ... Continue Reading
Ex-UEFA President, Lennart Johansson is Dead
Lennart Johansson, who was president of European football body UEFA from 1990 to 2007 is dead. He died at the age of 89, the Swedish footbal... Continue Reading
Ondo Government Reveals Vehicles that’ll no longer Ply its R...
Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, on Friday said that vehicles without road worthiness certificates from its computerised inspection... Continue Reading
PSG Boss Al-Khelaifi Charged With Corruption
A French judge has charged the president of Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) football club, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, with corruption over Qatari bids to... Continue Reading
We Are Chasing Fraudsters And Not Musicians – EFCC Boss Magu...
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has refuted claims that the anti-graft agency was clamping down on artists. ... Continue Reading
2Baba accuses COSON of corruption, says ‘its criminal ...
Nigerian music legend, 2face Idibia this morning took to Instagram to accuse the Tony Okoroji led COSON of corruption. 2face in a lenghty po... Continue Reading
Why it is Difficult to Arrest Vote Buyers – ICPC
Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, the Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), says checking vote buying ... Continue Reading
‘Ngige Not Fit To Be Minister’ – NLC
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has urged workers in the nation’s airports and those in the 163 countries that are members of the Internat... Continue Reading
Nigeria’s Major Problem Not Corruption But Leadership –...
Yakubu Dogara, the Speaker of the 8th House of Representatives has said contrary to believe in some quarters that corruption is the major pr... Continue Reading
EFCC Secures 16 Convictions, Recovers N72.9m Properties in U...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Uyo Zonal Office has secured 16 convictions in the first quarter of the year 2019, and r... Continue Reading
Senate set to invite NPA, NIMASA, others, over Apapa gridloc...
The Senate Committee on Works says plans are underway to invite the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) in the coming week over lingering Apapa gr... Continue Reading
Three men sentenced to 20-41 years for having sex with nine ...
Three men from Pennsylvania have been jailed for decades for having sex with nine female horses, a cow, a goat, and dogs. The men, Matthew B... Continue Reading
Corruption: Don’t judge us by conviction figure, says Fed Go...
IT will be unfair to measure the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration by its achievements in anti-corruption fight by the number of... Continue Reading
We’ll Be Collecting Money From Politicians Till Court ...
An Anglican bishop Timothy Gichere of the ACK Mt Kenya Central diocese on Sunday, April 21, stated that they will continue collecting money ... Continue Reading
Buhari’s Corruption Fight Is ‘Nonsense’ – Queen Of England E...
A former Nigerian Ambassador to Switzerland and ex-Administrative Officer representing the Queen of England, Yahaya Kwande, has described th... Continue Reading
Buhari’s Corruption Fight is Nonsense – Queen of England Ex-...
A former Nigerian Ambassador to Switzerland and ex-Administrative Officer representing the Queen of England, Yahaya Kwande, has described th... Continue Reading
Catholic Bishop, Others Set Target for Buhari
Some clerics in Lagos have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to use his re-election to do more in improving the security of Nigeria, uniting ... Continue Reading
Fuel Subsidy Removal: NLC Reacts to IMF’s Advice to Buhari g...
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has cautioned the Federal Government against implementing the recommendation of the International Monetar... Continue Reading
N1.98bn Scam Rocks University Of Ibadan
Nigeria’s premier university, the University of Ibadan, is enmeshed in alleged corruption scandal bordering on misappropriation of varsity f... Continue Reading
ICPC seeks solutions to vote-buying
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on Thursday said its research wing, the Anti-Corruption Acade... Continue Reading
Court Dismisses EFCC’s Suit Against Akwa Ibom Senator
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Wednesday dismissed a N254million-bribery suit filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFC... Continue Reading