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Opposition Alleges Fresh Plot to Arrest Saraki, Ekweremadu

Opposition Alleges Fresh Plot to Arrest Saraki, Ekweremadu

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday claimed that it has uncovered a plot by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and “the cabal” in the Presidency to use compromised security agencies and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to invite, arrest and detain Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu. The […]

How Buhari’s Govt Detained Nigerian Journalist for Two Years Without Trial

How Buhari’s Govt Detained Nigerian Journalist for Two Years Without Trial

In tears, 80-year-old Mama Abiri undressed. Before strangers, family, and friends alike, Mama clasped her frail breasts, and cried inconsolably, naked. With emotions only a mother could express, Mama cried in the native Ijaw language of the Niger Delta creeks. Mama was calling on Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, to feel her pain and hear her […]

Trouble for Olusegun Obasanjo As Nigerian Govt Revisits Probe of $16bn Power Spending

Trouble for Olusegun Obasanjo As Nigerian Govt Revisits Probe of $16bn Power Spending

Abuja — There are indications that former President Olusegun Obasanjo may be in for serious trouble, as the federal government plans to begin a fresh probe of how $16billion earmarked for power projects during his administration was spent. This is coming just as President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday challenged Obasanjo to show Nigerians the electricity he […]

You Are Ignorant – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo Fires Back At Muhammadu Buhari

You Are Ignorant – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo Fires Back At Muhammadu Buhari

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has responded to the suggestion by President Muhammadu Buhari that the administration he (Obasanjo) led between 1999 and 2007 wasted $16billion on power projects without anything to show for it. Mr. Buhari had while receiving a delegation of Buhari Support Organisation (BSO) at the Presidential Villa Tuesday criticised previous Nigerian administrations […]

American Who Allegedly Scammed Three Nigerians of $565,000 Gets Bail

American Who Allegedly Scammed Three Nigerians of $565,000 Gets Bail

An American, Marco Ramirez, who allegedly defrauded three Nigerians of 565,000 dollars in an American Green Card scam, was granted bail on Monday. Ramirez was granted bail in the sum of $250,000 by an Ikeja High Court. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ramirez was earlier remanded in Kirikiri Prisons, after his arraignment […]

$43 Million Ikoyigate Belongs to Rivers State Govt – Sekibo

$43 Million Ikoyigate Belongs to Rivers State Govt – Sekibo

Senator George Sekibo, PDP, Rivers East yesterday told the Senators at the Senate Chambers that the $43million uncovered at a luxury apartment building in Osborne, Ikoyi, Lagos by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) belongs to the Rivers State Government. Sekibo alleged that the said apartment belongs to a former governor of Rivers State […]

Nigeria’s Babangida Aliyu to Stand Trial for Corruption

Nigeria’s Babangida Aliyu to Stand Trial for Corruption

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Monday deployed 95 personnel to beef up security at Minna High Court as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) looked set to arraign former Governor Babangida Aliyu on Tuesday. Mr. Aliyu, who served between 2007 and 2015, is expected to be arraigned for alleged N5 […]

Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ‘finds U.S.$43 million in Lagos flat’

Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ‘finds U.S.$43 million in Lagos flat’

More than $43m (£34m) has been seized from a flat in Nigeria’s main city, Lagos, the anti-corruption agency says. Officials raided the flat after a tip-off about a “haggard-looking” woman in “dirty clothes” taking bags in and out of it, the agency added. The money was believed to be from unlawful activity, but no arrests […]

Nigeria’s Anti-Graft Agency Uncovers Another Cash Haul

Nigeria’s Anti-Graft Agency Uncovers Another Cash Haul

A tip from a whistle blower today led operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to intercept huge sums of money in various currencies at the popular Balogun market in Lagos. The monies include €547,730 and £21,090 as well as N5,648,500. The total haul is about N250 million at the prevailing exchange rate […]

What’s Mine is Mine! Nigeria Govt Begins Tracking All Assets

What’s Mine is Mine! Nigeria Govt Begins Tracking All Assets

The federal government has launched an Asset Tracking and Management Project (ATMProject), a mechanism designed to enable it locate, identify, assess and evaluate all its moveable and fixed assets. The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosu, who unfolded this new initiative at the weekend, also disclosed that a central asset register would be created and […]

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