Ibrahim Magu, acting chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), says "18 high-profile looters" outside the country will be extradited in the fight against corruption. Speaking with journalists in Ilorin, capital of Kwara state, on Tuesday, Magu said the fight against corruption has just started. The anti-graft czar, who did not disclose the identities of the "high-profile looters", said the agency will [...]
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The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) says it is investigating how its letter to commercial banks requesting the account details of principal government officers was leaked. In a statement on Monday, Ahmed Dikko, NFIU spokesperson, described the report that the agency is probing the senate president, speaker of the house of representatives and the chief justice of Nigeria as untrue. Dikko said [...]
A coalition of civil society organisations have resolved to approach the court to stop the reappointment of Abubakar Malami as a minister. The coalition had on Wednesday sent a letter to the senate to reject Malami, citing the outcome of an audit done on him which detailed the “shady actions” of the former AGF. Malami had engaged Oladipo Okpeseyi and Temitope Adebayo, [...]
Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance, says the federal government has recovered N605 billion through the implementation of the whistleblower policy. Ahmed made this known during a briefing on the ministry’s activities in Abuja, on Thursday. The whistleblower policy is an anti-corruption programme that was launched in December 2016. It encourages individuals to report cases of financial mismanagement or stolen funds. As of the [...]
Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, says the fight against corruption has taken a new turn under President Muhammadu Buhari. Soyinka who spoke on Hard Talk, a BBC programme, said of Buhari’s top three campaign promises, the president performed best in the anti-graft war. Commenting on security, the professor said while Buhari is making progress in curbing Boko Haram insurgency, the president failed to [...]
Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, says in the history of partisan politics in Nigeria, no party has given opportunities to women like the All Progressives Congress (APC). The governor said this at a town-hall meeting President Muhammadu Buhari held with young people on Friday. The meeting held at the presidential villa in Abuja. “I know that in the history of partisan politics [...]
Femi Falana, human rights lawyer, says no state in Nigeria is fighting corruption while noting that it is only Kano that has an anti-corruption commission. The senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN) said this on Thursday when he was featured on a show on Arise Television. While commenting on Nigeria's anti-corruption effort in 2018, Falana said the fight cannot be limited to the [...]
Femi Falana, human rights lawyer, says corruption would have reduced in Africa if western countries do not help in keeping looted funds. He said this at the African non-governmental organisation (NGO) forum held in Banjul, Gambia. The lawyer accused the western media and Transparency International (TI) of failing to join the campaign for the repatriation of the looted wealth of Africa. "If the western countries [...]
Between 2013 and 2014, the federal government used the services of Enrico Monfrini and Christian Luscher, Swiss lawyers, to recover $321 million looted by Sani Abacha, late former head of state. The funds, recovered from Luxembourg, were domiciled with the attorney-general of Switzerland. The next step in completing the repatriation was for Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation (AGF), to write to [...]
Legacy Initiative International, a civil society organisation, says Nigeria must return to God to end corruption. Speaking at a conference in Lagos on Wednesday, Kenny Martins, grand patron of the organisation, said members of the group have spent sleepless nights, travelled long distances consulting with religious leaders on a cause which is for the common good of the Nigerian people. Martins said [...]
Soji Oye, director of information of the National Judicial Council (NJC), says the special anti-corruption courts have delivered judgments in 324 cases. This, he said, has taken place since the courts were set up in November 2017. In a statement released on Sunday, the director said the courts struck out 12 cases and reserved 62 for judgment. He said the figures were [...]
Femi Falana, human rights lawyer and a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), says before the creation of anti-graft bodies, the media was in the forefront in the fight against corruption. While fielding questions from journalists at the launch of Up Right For Nigeria, an anti-corruption campaign organized by the Centre for Communication and Social Impact, in Lagos on Monday, Falana [...]
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation says as part of its On Nigeria grant-making, it would be funding the anti-corruption efforts in Nigeria with $6.5 million. It said the grant is to help in fighting corruption by building an atmosphere of accountability, transparency, and good governance in Nigeria. “The country has begun an important process of addressing the corruption that [...]
Aso Rock, Nigeria’s seat of power, will spend the sum of N67 million on ‘residential rent’, as provided for in the 2018 budget. This is not the first time the presidency is being charged for rent by the federal government – the tradition precedes the Muhammadu Buhari administration. In 2017, the sum of N78 million was budgeted as its rent while N27 [...]
“Sho Baba!” That is Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters, being hailed by his friends and fans. He is “my presido” to those who attended the University of Lagos at the time he was the president of the student union government (SUG). Easily identified with his signature looks that shows a pan-Africanist, Sowore, who shares his time between New York and Lagos, [...]
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has spoken on the reason he and President Muhammadu Buhari have not visited Dapchi in Yobe state where 110 students were abducted two weeks ago. Both men have been criticised for not paying condolence visits to places where abductions and avoidable deaths were recorded in recent times. Among these states are Benue, Zamfara and Taraba. Speaking with journalists over the [...]
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