The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Prof. Adebiyi Daramola, for an...
Archive - February 2017
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday commenced afresh, for the fifth time, the trial of a former Managing Director of the defunct Bank PHB...
Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has described corruption as one of the reasons Nigerians are facing hardship. Osinbajo said corruption, which had been...
The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has accused the Federal Government of directing the Federal Ministry of Finance to withhold the January Federal...
The eight-year-old trial of a former governor of Oyo State, Rashidi Ladoja, for an alleged fraud of N4.7bn, was stalled on Tuesday due to lack of preparation...
Budget padding, which marred the 2016 Appropriation Bill, appears to be rearing its head again in the 2017 budget estimates as the Senate Committee on Housing...
The Presidency has said the nation’s economy which is currently in recession is currently on course for recovery and growth. This was contained in the 23rd...
February 15, 2017 The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission will charge a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Dr...
A retired air commodore, Umar Mohammed, on Tuesday asked the Federal High Court, Abuja, to grant him permission to travel abroad for medical treatment...
Since the commencement of the Treasury Single Account in September 2015, over 20,000 accounts with Deposit Money Banks belonging to Ministries, Departments and...
A civil society group, Centre for Anti-corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL) has called on the federal government to strengthen the anti-graft agencies to...
The Federal Government is looking at generating as much as $16.4bn (N5tn at N305 to the dollar) through asset sales in the next four years to reduce the burden...
Nigerian governors have summoned an emergency meeting over the ongoing probe of how they spent the N522bn Paris Club loan refund which was shared to the states...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission recovered about N8.7bn in 2016. The Chairman of the commission, Mr. Ekpo Nta, said this...
A former Director of Finance and Accounts at the headquarters of the Nigerian Air Force, Air Commodore Salisu Yishau (retd.), narrated to the Federal High...
The Independent National Electoral Commission said on Monday that it had started preparations for the 2019 general elections. The Chairman of the commission...
A former Director of Public Prosecutions of the Federation, Mrs. Olufemi Fatunde, has been engaged to take over from Mr. Charles Adeogun-Philips as the lead...
I do not believe that there should be a special court for anti-graft cases. We already have sufficient categories of courts that can handle graft matters...
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has approved 20 to 50 per cent fare increase for BRT, LAGBUS and other franchise buses, with effect from March 1, 2017...
The Lagos State Government says it will not back down in ensuring that the state workforce, especially directors in the state public service, embrace...
The Beko Rights Klub, BRK in collaboration with the Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL on Friday, 10th February, 2017 held the 11th...
Worried by the state of the nation and the economic recession, the leaders of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have called for a radical change in Nigeria by...
The Centre for Anti-corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL avers that the existence of corruption and how deeply it has eaten into the fabric of society is...
The Federal Government has set aside the sum of N51bn in this year’s budget to promote the development of the garment and textile industry in the country. The...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has pleaded with Justice Muslim Hassan of the Federal High Court in Lagos to dismiss the application by a former...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission( EFCC) is hunting for another former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation( NNPC)...
Published February 13, 2017 Senators and members of the House of Representatives are engaging the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun; the Minister of...
The Nigerian Bar Association has expressed concern about the ongoing trials of judges on corruption charges. The umbrella body of all Nigerian lawyers said it...
February 13, 2017 President Muhammadu Buhari’s medical vacation will on Monday (today) enter its fourth week. The President has been away from the country for...
A former Delta State governor, James Ibori, who was convicted of money laundering in the United Kingdom, said on Sunday, that he was not a thief. The former...
The Federal Government on Sunday debunked the claim by Mr. Charles Adeogun-Phillips that he voluntarily withdrew in protest as the lead prosecuting counsel in...
Published February 13, 2017 The Federal Government said on Sunday that its whistle-blower policy had started yielding fruits. It said the policy had so far led...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has discovered a $37.5m (N11.75bn) luxury high-rise building on Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos, allegedly belonging...
The former Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Dr Andrew Yakubu, has admitted ownership of the recovered money of $9.8m from his...
Nigeria; Maladministration and Corruption remain major encumbrances to socio-economic and political development. A Preamble Compatriots, it’s another...
The Federal Government on Wednesday filed two separate sets of charges before the Code of Conduct Tribunal against a Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice...
The Federal Government on Wednesday tendered before a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Maitama, Abuja, bags of cash in local and foreign...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Wednesday, arraigned a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Dele Belgore, for alleged money laundering. The SAN was...
The National Judicial Council, on Wednesday, asked Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, in the absence of President Muhammadu Buhari, to extend the tenure of...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday arraigned a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Dele Belgore, for alleged money laundering. The SAN was...