Category: Corruption matters

Afrobeat musician, D’banj (left) and Humanitarian Minister, Sadiya Farouq. By Advocatenewsng.com FAMOUS Nigerian musician, Oladapo Oyebanji, famously known as D’banj will remain in the detention facility of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) over a fresh discovery of 20,000 ghost workers infused into the N-Power Programme, SaharaReporters has gathered. The anti-graft agency detained D’banj on Tuesday over fraud allegations involving the N-Power Programme. On June 8, 2016, President Muhammadu Buhari launched the programme to address…

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Bags of naira and dollar cash recovered from the fraud syndicates. By Advocatenewsng.com. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested some members of an alleged cyber-fraud syndicate with N326 million and $610,500 cash. The commission said in a statement on Tuesday that the syndicate included the Kogi State House of Assembly candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Ismaila Atumeyi. Mr Atumeyi was arrested along with an alleged serial fraudster, Joshua Dominic, in a sting operation,…

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Governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle of Zamfara State. By Advocatenewsng.com. Mr. Bello Mohammed Matawalle, the governor of Zamfara State has recently been in the news for the wrong reasons. The unsavoury reports ranged from his controversial proscription of political campaigns and unlawful banning of some media houses in the state to the current allegation of diverting billions of naira belonging to the state for the purchase of choice properties in Abuja Federal Capital City. The embattled governor has been under…

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By Advocatenewsng.com.  A Federal High Court Lagos, South West Nigeria, sitting before Justice Peter Lifu has invited all the parties involved in the case of the alleged missing N223,865,708, considered to be a bank fraud at Standard Chartered Bank operating at Aromire branch Ikeja, Lagos, to appear before it on 19th January, 2023, for the commencement of trial of four persons alleged to have defrauded the bank of that amount. According to a four count amended charge filed before…

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Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, Prof Bolaji Owasanoye. THE Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission on Thursday opened up that the N13.59trillion 2021 budget was padded by the various Ministries, Departments and Agencies, with duplicated projects worth N300b. The ICPC Chairman, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, during an interface with the Senate Committee on Finance, also disclosed that projects duplication worth N100billion were also inserted into the N17.12 trillion 2022 budget by some MDAs asides…

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Ahmed Idris, AGF By Advocatenewsng.com. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested the serving Accountant General of the Federation, Mr. Ahmed Idris, in connection with diversion of funds and money laundering activities to the tune of N80bn. The Spokesman for the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, said this in a statement on Monday titled, ‘EFCC arrests Ahmed Idris, Accountant General of the Federation, for N80bn Fraud’. According to the commission, Idris was arrested after failing to honour an invitation. The…

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Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa, EFCC chairman nominee. By Editor, (Finance and Economy). President Muhammadu Buhari has finally sealed the fate of the former acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, with the appointment of a 40-year old 2005 cadet investigator with EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa as new chairman. Magu, who was arrested, detained and recently investigated by the Justice Ayo Salami probe Panel sitting at Aso Rock, over corruption allegations, is yet to be retired or…

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Prof. Itse Sagay, SAN, Chairman, PACAC. By Editor. Following the roiling saga of the large scale fraud, financial recklessness and incompetence of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), more leaders of the Niger Delta region have questioned the propriety of having the IMC in place and called for its disbandment.Giving his view on the saga, the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari…

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Ibrahim Magu, EFCC chairman. OPINION. By Mike Ozekhome, SAN. Mr Ibrahim Magu has been acting as EFCC  Chairman for over five years. The Senate on two  occasions refused to confirm him, based on clear report on damning allegations of corruption leveled against him by Government secrete agency, the DSS. Magu’s compromised supporters and cheap publicists, eating from his table and those afraid of public denigration in the so called “anti- corruption war ” hailed and ‘ranka dede-d’ him. They …

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