The federal government has begun investigation of power projects in Nigerian since 1999, and EFCC has already moved into action to dig up how more than $16bn was spent on power projects in the administration of three former presidents.

Already under the EFCC searchlight are Olusegun Obasanjo, Umar Musa Yar’ Adua, and Goodluck Jonathan. President Muhammadu Buhari has always asked why an administration would spent $16bn on electricity, and Nigerians will still be fumbling in darkness. And Obasanjo would readily point any inquirer to his book–“My Watch–for the answer. But the EFCC will be […]

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The National President of the Vanguard for Transparent Leadership and Democracy, Igbini Emmanuel, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to retain the position of Minister of Petroleum Resources

Emmanuel said this in a statement made available to journalists in Abuja on Monday, even as the ministers-designate are expected to be assigned portfolios in the next 48 hours. He said the call became imperative “in view of very disturbing increase in reported cases of corruption and massive looting of our oil revenues by some […]

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Men of the Nigeria Police Force on Monday stormed and sealed the venue where Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, Femi Falana and others were to speak on the state of insecurity in the country

The programme organised by a group, Coalition for Revolution, was scheduled to hold on Ibijoke Street, in the Oregun area of Lagos State at 11am, but security agents stormed the venue and prevented participants from entering the place. Soyinka, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana and others were billed to speak at the symposium […]

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According to Statistics obtained from the Debt Management Office on Monday showed that the South-West geopolitical zone was exposed to a domestic debt of N1.04tn as of March 31 this year, which made the geopolitical zone, top domestic debtors’ list, That the region has more domestic debt than other regions of the country

N1.04tn Everest Amaefule The statistics also showed that the six geopolitical zones of the country were exposed to a total domestic debt of N3.97tn as of March 31. This means that the South-West geopolitical zone of the country accounts for 26.2 per cent of the country’s total subnational domestic debt. The geopolitical zone is made […]

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More revelations have emerged regarding how the police officers from the IGP Intelligence Response Team (IRT), were killed by soldiers in Taraba State on August 6, how army Captain employed local welder to destroy hand and leg cuffs on wadume

This is just as our correspondent gathered authoritatively of how the Commanding Officer of 93 Battalion Ibi, Captain Balarabe Tijani, employed the services of a welder in the community to destroy the hand and leg cuffs on Hamisu Bala Wadume, before setting him free. The captain who is said to have been interrogated by the […]

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The Presidency denied claims that the Chairman of Federal Inland Revenue Service, Babatunde Fowler, is not under investigation

This is coming following some media reports from the letter by Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, on which the purported rumour of an investigation is based, merely raises concerns over the negative run of the tax revenue collection in recent times. In a statement signed by Mallam Garba Shehu, the special assistant […]

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Federal Government releases lengthy conditions for new marriage certificates

The Nigerian government has said the cost of its new federal marriage certificate is N21,000 while licensing of place of worship is N30,000. The director, Citizenship and Business, Federal Ministry of Interior, Steve Okon, disclosed this to PREMIUM TIMES in Abuja on Monday. Mr Okon explained that places of worship will be licensed individually, not as a group. “If […]

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Auditor General of the Federation Accuses agencies of Government for violating accounting rules, and failing to submit fiscal reports, which has increase the numbers of MDAs without audited reports from 148 in 2014 to 323 in 2018, astronomically, indicting Presidency, EFCC and NASS, whose Financial indiscipline is blamed on President Muhammadu Buhari’s inaction, and failure to sign anti-graft bills,

The indictment came against the backdrop of the much-talked-about fight against corruption being waged by the Federal Government. Some of the cases of irregularity included improper records of transactions, unsubstantiated claims and outright non-report. For instance, an estimated N500 billion was submitted to the National Assembly. But the money, according to the 2016 report by […]

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Economic and Financial Crimes Commission will on Monday (today) arraign one Mrs Isabella Oshodin and Bob Oshodin Organisation Ltd at the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, for collecting N22.9bn from Sambo Dasuki fraudulently, and for money laundering

The commission disclosed that they would be arraigned before Justice Taiwo Taiwo on 25 counts for receiving the money fraudulently from the former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.). According to a statement in Abuja on Sunday by the acting EFCC spokesman, Tony Orilade, Oshodin and her firm allegedly received $57.3m and N2.3bn from […]

Leave a Comment on Economic and Financial Crimes Commission will on Monday (today) arraign one Mrs Isabella Oshodin and Bob Oshodin Organisation Ltd at the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, for collecting N22.9bn from Sambo Dasuki fraudulently, and for money laundering