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Following Gooodluck Jonathan's denial  that his administration withdrew some staggering amount of monies on the eve of 2015 general election. The presidency has once again insist they have proofs to back up its claims that the then Nigerian president, withdrew N100 billion from the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN, few weeks to the 2015 general election which he lost to President Buhari. Recall that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, at a recent function in Abuja, alleged that the former president's administration, withdrew N100 billion from the CBN which they ''essentially shared'' to some persons, weeks before the election. A source in the presidency who spoke to Vanguard, said there are documents to back up this claims which has been denied by the former president's media aide, Reno Omokri. The presidential source told Vanguard that the former National Security Adviser, NSA personally supervised the physical transfer of the money from the CBN vaults to th...

A former Abia State Governor, Orji Uzor Kalu who is also been accused of corruption has called on President Mohammadu Buhari to arrest and prosecute ex-President, Olusegun Obasanjo for alleged missing fund meant for power during his regime. Mr  Kalu , made the call while speaking at the quarterly public lecture series of the National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO) in Abuja. He said,  “My prosecution is political. Our accounts in Abia state were transparent under my watch. The US knows, the UK knows. I have been given a red carpet in these two countries. I have been given a red carpet in China. In fact, I am stronger in fighting corruption than President Buhari because he is not fighting it well. ” “I have recovered peoples’ money and given them back. I am a creator of wealth at every level. If any court finds me to be corrupt , it should jail me. Corruption is the bane of this country. “A corrupt judge and corrupt politician is worst than armed rubber. ”...

 Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday grilled former governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff. Daily post reports that, the Operatives questioned the former factional National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for hours at the agency’s office in Abuja, the nation’s capital. It was gathered that Sheriff was questioned on how he raised $72million to buy a G650 Gulfstream aircraft after leaving office in 2011. The politician has at least two private jets. Sheriff is also accused of benefiting from $200million released by the Jonathan administration to facilitate Boko Haram ceasefire in a neighbouring country in 2014. The operatives also want to establish if the said amount was transmitted by a top presidential aide to a foreign leader, who has a personal relationship with Sheriff. Aside these, Sheriff was also presented with records of monies shared ahead of the 2015 general election. The anti-graft agency had on June 6, 2016, grill...

The Nigerian Navy Forward Operating Base (FOB in Bonny, Rivers have allegedly arrest 16 Ukrainians found in a ship over illegal oil trade.   They were caught while operating on a vessel in Nigerian waters on Friday. Commanding Officer, FOB Bonny, Captain Suleiman Olorundare, said that the foreigners’ activities violated the law of cabotage.   The suspects who were caught while carrying drums suspected to be automated gas oil, without relevant documentation have been handed over to security operatives for further investigations..   “The ship was arrested in our Maritime environment. She was engaged in illegal trading activities that contravene our national law, especially the Cabotage law,” Olorundare said.   The 16 suspects were, thereafter, handed over to the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for further investigations and possible prosecution.

With or without Senates approval, he is going nowhere, the Predency has spoken. The Nigeria's Vice-President , Prof.Yemi Osinbajo has stated that the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, is “going nowhere”. Osinbanjo, while speaking to newsmen in Abuja earlier today, Osinbajo said there is no justification for the position of the senate. The Nigerian Senate has on two occassions rejected Magu;s nomination as Chairman of the antigraft agency. Despite the rejections, the presidency has continued to allow Magu head the agency. Osinbajo today told newsmen that Magu has not committed any offence Magu is going nowhere. Seriously, what offence has this man committed. I have known him personally right from the time of the very first chairman of the commission till now, he is a very dedicated, trustworthy gentleman. Don’t forget he is also the most senior official of the EFCC.” Osibanjo added that the presidency will not be force...

Just weeks after the story of snake swallowing 36million in Benue state broke the internet, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has uncovered another fraud of N26 million allegedly perpetrated by its former Nasarawa State coordinator, according to Dailypost. The former coordinator simply identified as Tanko was said to have embezzled the money he generated from the sale of the scratch cards hitherto used by candidates to either gain access to the JAMB website for registration or other services. JAMB spokesman, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, told newsmen in Abuja that the former Nasarawa State coordinator had apologised to the JAMB audit team for his inability to account for the money for unknown reasons. The officer, in his confessional statement, claimed that the unsold scratch cards were burnt when he was involved in a car crash, even as he failed to account for the ones he sold before a ban was placed on the use of scratch cards in 2016. JAMB’s head of media said t...

Nigeria's electoral body, Independent National Electoral Commission (EFCC) has asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to help it track sources of campaign finances by registered political parties and their candidates as the commission decried high rate of vote buying by political parties and their candidates at polling centres during election.

Few months after N13 billion belonging to the National Intelligence Agency was found in an Ikoyi apartment where the immediate past Director General of the agency, Ayo Oke claimed she was the owner. DailyTrust has revealed that $44 million has reportedly vanished from the vault of the National Intelligence Agency NIA.

A former Speaker of House of Representative,Hon Patricial Etteh who was impeached for claiming she renovated her official residence with over 620 million naira, is also amongs the people appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari into federal parastatals. She is made Chairman of Board of National Hospital Abuja. See screenshot below...

Could this be why the country is still stagnat despite having new government in place? A UK Department for International Development (DFID) has stated that $32 billion was lost to corruption during the six-year administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.  The head of DFID Nigeria, Debbie Palmer, disclosed this when she spoke at an event organised by Youngstars Foundation Initiative in commemoration of the 2017 international anti-corruption day. She said; “An independent report estimates that up to $32bn was lost to corruption under the previous government. This is around 15 percent of state resources during the period and could well be an underestimate. So, the estimate is that nearly 16 percent of the previous government’s money was lost to corruption. That is a staggering amount of money. And that is money that is to all of you and to your future. That is why we all should care about corruption. Millions of dollars also remain in other jurisdictions tied up ...

 Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, on Wednesday said the commission recovered loots totaling N738.9 billion ($2.9 bn) between May, 2015 and October 20, 2017. This amount excludes loots recovered in other currencies like Durham, CRA and British Pound, he said. He stated this at the ongoing 7th Session of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention Against Corruption holding in Vienna, Austria. “Within this year alone, the commission recovered stolen assets running into several millions of US Dollars and billions in naira. “These include the sum of $43 million recovered from Diezani Alison-Madueke, Nigeria’s former Minister of Petroleum and N2 billion spread in seven accounts within three Nigerian banks laundered from the Federal Capital Territory Police Command Salary Accounts”, he explained. He added that progress is being made in specific cases related to Abacha loot, Malabu Oil, Diezani and...

Snenate President, Bukola Saraki is no stranger to controvercies as his name has onece again poped up in listed names of world politician in recent offshore leaks. A Tax Justice Network, TJN, has declared that lower-income countries bear a disproportionate share of the burden from global tax abuse in which the latest revelation from ‘Paradise papers’ showed cost the world $700 billion in losses every year. TJN, which said this in a reaction to the Paradise paper, the largest leak of data to date from the world of financial secrecy, maintained that this has direct costs in terms of everything from foregone economic growth to excess child mortality. Nigeria’s Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has been listed as one of the Nigerians invlolved in the tax abuse. “The ‘Paradise Papers’ have once again highlighted the failure of governments around the world to deal with the scourge of tax dodging and financial crime facilitated by offshore financial centres, and we commend the I...

A Lagos based lawyer, Festus Keyamo, has faulted the memo written by the Head of Service, Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita, to the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, where she warned President Muhammadu Buhari against the reinstatement of the former Chairman of the Pension Reforms Commission, Mallam Abdulrasheed Maina, into the civil service. In the said memo, Oyo-Ita warned that recalling Maina would have dire implications on government’s anti-corruption fight. Keyamo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, described the Maina saga as condemnable, saying the HoS was dodgy in the role she played in the ongoing saga. Similarly, he plugged a hole in Oyo-Ita’s claim that she called the president aside after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting on October 11, where she orally warned Buhari against bringing Maina back to the service. Keyamo said the HoS breached the standard bureaucratic practice by calling Buhari aside and whispering to his ear, rather than putting her views in w...

Nigeria's imediate past minister of Finance ,Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been indicted by the Nigerian senate over a N1.7t loss in revenue. According to the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Alleged Misuse, Under-Remittance and Other Fraudulent Activities, revenue agencies short-changed the Federal Government to the tune of N1.7tn as unremitted revenue generated between 2012 and 2016. The panel blamed it on a memo by a former Minister of Finance, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who allegedly issued the memo to the agencies to remit 25 per cent of revenue they generated to the Federal Government and spend 75 per cent on their expenditures. An interim report by the committee chaired by Senator Olamilekan Adeola, details this. The panel said the amount to be remitted to the Federal Government during the period by 93 agencies it investigated was N21.5tn. It alleged that 25 of the 93 agencies covered defrauded the government of a total of N1,695,585,887,406.

Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) and the National Assembly are currently after the Acting Chairman of the Economic And Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu.

The NATION Newspaper reports that ,the trial of former Benue governor, Mr Gabriel Suswam, was on Wednesday stalled at the Federal High Court, Abuja, due to absence of the second defendant, Omadachi Oklobia.

The Nigeria's Senate President, Bukola Saraki was today cleared by the Code of Conduct Tribunal . According to Channels Tv, the CCT ruled that Saraki has no case to answer in the 18 charges of non-declaration of assets brought against him by the Federal Government. See Also: Code of Conduct Tribunal Clears Saraki In Controversial False Asset Declaration Case The 13 count charges filed against Saraki on September 16, 2015 were increased to 15 on April 18, 2016 and another charge was added on April 27, 2016 to make it 16. See Also:   Buhari's Health: Presidency Source Reveals How Aisha LIED, Blocked By Cabals From Seeing Her Husband, Orji Kalu Too

Nigerian Senate has passed an executive bill seeking mutual assistance in criminal matters between Nigeria and foreign states.

By Joseph Asawa An Elder statesman and watchdog of social justice, Alhaji Abubakar B. Tsav has dragged the Benue state governor Dr. Samuel Ortom before the presidency and other relevant security agencies over reasons of using his office to acquire ill-wealth for himself, family, cronies, favoured ones and in-laws.

The suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, again on Thursday, shunned the Senate committee on mounting humanitarian crisis in the north east whose allegations originally caused his suspension Premium Times reports..