The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday failed to deliver its scheduled ruling on the bail application filed by former Chairman of the Police Pension Task Force, Abdulrasheed Maina. The accused is facing trial for allegedly diverting pensioners’ funds estimated at N3 billion. Justice Okon Abang said the court …
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The Code of Conduct Bureau has investigated 200 cases and filed 75 of them at the Code of Conduct Tribunal with about 100 cases still pending in the CCT. The Chairman of the CCB, Muhammed Isah, who stated this in Abuja on Thursday, put the amount involved in the …
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The National Assembly Joint Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions on Tuesday asked anti-graft agencies to probe a contractor who abandoned a project since 2015 after collecting N1.5bn mobilisation fee. The contractor was said to have abandoned the construction of the headquarters of the Code of Conduct Bureau in …
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As Nigeria goes on appeal to set aside the huge cash awarded by a British commercial and arbitration court to P&ID, an offshore company over a botched gas supply contract, indications emerged, weekend, that the government might have written off the claimant as a non-existent enterprise. The government is said …
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A former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, has sold the entire issue shared capital of his banking group, First International Banking (FIB) Group Limited, The Gambia, PREMIUM TIMES can report today. The transaction, which has never been made public, was concluded between 2015 and 2016, documents seen by …
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Popular dancer, Kafayat Shafau, otherwise known as Kaffy, has condemned the controversial dance step, Soapy, popularised by musician, Azeez Fashola aka Naira Marley. The dance step, which is done by imitating the act of masturbation, was demonstrated in a video posted by Naira Marley last week. Messi vows to play …
Read More »Mr Friday Ebelo, the Zonal Head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibadan Zone on Monday said the commission secured 83 convictions out 107 cases filed in courts in six months. Ebelo told newsmen on Monday in Ibadan that the zone received 481 petitions out of which 117 …
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Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, North West Zonal office, Kano, have arrested a Chinese man with N305,000 in N5 denomination. He was arrested at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, en-route Dubai. Addressing newsmen at the anti-graft North West zonal headquarters on Wednesday, the Zonal Head of …
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Two of the 14 members announced to the board of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other offenses Commission (ICPC) are being investigated by the anti-corruption agency for alleged corruption in the region of N1billion, the ICIR can authoritatively report. The two proposed members of the board, headed by Bolaji Owasanoye, a …
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A new report by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has revealed how over N11 trillion meant to provide regular electricity supply was allegedly squandered under the governments of former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan. According to the report, “The total estimated financial loss to Nigeria …
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