Nigeria lost N306bn to MSME-related corruption —Report

By: Ifeanyi Onuba, Abuja Within a four-year period covering 2014 to 2018, over $1bn was lost by the country to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises-related corruption, a report released on Wednesday in Abuja has revealed. The report titled “Stolen dreams: How corruption negates govern...

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Social critic condemns Buhari’s anti-graft war tactics

Cyril Mbah, Abuja A vocal member of the civil society community, Dr. Otive Ogbuzor has criticised the insincerity surrounding the war against corruption in Nigeria and the attitude of public officials who pretend to be fighting graft but are overtly encouraging despicable actions that debase s...

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Social critic condemns Buhari’s anti-graft war tactics

Cyril Mbah, Abuja A vocal member of the civil society community, Dr. Otive Ogbuzor has criticised the insincerity surrounding the war against corruption in Nigeria and the attitude of public officials who pretend to be fighting graft but are overtly encouraging despicable actions that debase s...

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Corruption And Our Leadership

by: Igboeli Arinze One problem forever hindering the general progress of the Nigerian society is no other than corruption. Since the procurement of independence to this present day, the people of Nigeria have seen corruption in our land grow from a minutiae nature to a full blown cancerous gro...

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EFCC Academy to award degree certificates in anti-corruption soon

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says its academy in Karu, Abuja will soon be certified as the first anti-corruption degree-awarding institution in Nigeria. The commission’s spokesman, Mr Tony Orilade made this known in a statement in Abuja on Monday. Orilade quoted...

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EFCC Declares Ex-NIA Boss, Ayodele Oke, Wife Wanted

Ambassador Ayodele Oke Oke and his wife are wanted in connection with the $43,449,947, £27,800 and N23,218,000 cash recovered by the EFCC from an apartment at Osborne Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, in April 2017. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared Ambassador Ayodele Oke,...

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EFCC Witness : Okupe Ran A Government Office Without Vouchers

Okupe is standing trial along with Value Trust Investment Ltd and Abrahams Telecoms Ltd on a 59-count charge of money laundering and criminal diversion of funds. Hassan Saidu, prosecution witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has told the Federal High Court in...

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Patience Jonathan to Forfeit N2.4bn to Nigerian Government

According to the EFCC, the N2.4billion was surreptitiously kept in the bank account of La Wari Furniture and Baths Limited, domiciled with Ecobank Plc. The Supreme Court has dismissed an application filed by Patience Jonathan, wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, seeking to upturn the ...

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Patience Jonathan to Forfeit N2.4bn to Nigerian Government

According to the EFCC, the N2.4billion was surreptitiously kept in the bank account of La Wari Furniture and Baths Limited, domiciled with Ecobank Plc. The Supreme Court has dismissed an application filed by Patience Jonathan, wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, seeking to upturn ...

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Patience Jonathan to Forfeit N2.4bn to Nigerian Government

According to the EFCC, the N2.4billion was surreptitiously kept in the bank account of La Wari Furniture and Baths Limited, domiciled with Ecobank Plc. The Supreme Court has dismissed an application filed by Patience Jonathan, wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, seeking to upturn ...

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EFCC boss tasks youths on integrity for corruption-free society

  Magu gave this advice at the inauguration ceremony of Anti-Corruption Club of students of Government Secondary School, Enugu The club was inaugurated by the EFCC and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC). Magu also unveiled the NYSC Anti-Corruption Community Developmen...

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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Listed In Trasparency International “Anti-Corruption Fighters”

BY NJIDEKA AGBO Nigeria’s former Finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been listed as one of the eight Transparency International “Anti-Corruption fighters”. She is the only Nigerian and the second African to make the list. According to the list, the women listed are “setting a...

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