The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has uncovered a staggering 1.7 trillion dollars, which is estimated to be wagered on illicit betting market every year. A statement issued in Abuja on Saturday quoted a new report by the UN office which showed a staggering scale, manifestation,...
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Justice Okon Abang of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has adjourned the trial of former Governor of Adamawa, Murtala Nyako and others until Jan. 24. Justice Abang fixed the date, following the appeal filed by the ex-governor and other defendants at the Court of Appeal, asking the...
The Ministry of Labour and Employment has clarified its position in the case of the illegal recruitment raised in the establishment. The Deputy Director, Press and Public Relations, Mr Charles Akpan, in the ministry, said this in a statement on Tuesday, in Abuja. Akpan said while reacting, to the...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed to sanction those who bring in personnel into the public workforce by illegal recruitment, pad their payroll and retain ghost workers. President Buhari stated this on Tuesday in Abuja while declaring open the 3rd National Summit on Diminishing Corruption...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arraigned the Chairman of Gwagwalada Area Council, Adamu Danze, for allegedly receiving N10 million kickback from a contractor handling construction projects in the area council. Danze was arraigned by the Commission before Justice U. P. Kekemeke of the...
BY JOY ADARA, Abuja – Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari “over his failure to publish the names of those indicted in the alleged misappropriation of over N6 trillion in the running of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) between 2000...
Kogi State’s Commissioner for Information and Communication, Mr Kingsley Fanwo, has said that the state government has facts to disprove the allegations the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had leveled against it. The commissioner disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists, stating that the Kogi Government...
Former Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke, has sought for an order of a Federal High Court, Abuja, extending his stay in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on medical ground. Adoke, through his lawyer, Edidiong Usungurua, made the application, on Tuesday, while moving...
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday adjourned the trial of a former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, for N338.8 million money laundering. Ikuforiji was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) alongside his former Personal Assistant, Oyebode Atoyebi, on a...
The former governor of Edo State, Mr Lucky Igbinedion, is currently being grilled by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) over what a source described as alleged criminal diversion of public funds to the tune of N1.6bn. The former governor, who arrived at the headquarters of...
There was a mild drama at the premises of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, after Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman, Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT), was convicted and sentenced to eight years imprisonment. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Okon Abang, the presiding judge in...
The Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, has said that the ministry has recorded appreciable milestone in the recovery of looted assets in the country. Malami said this during the budget defence before the House of Representatives Committee on Justice on Monday in Abuja. He stated that the Ministry...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, convicted Abdulrasheed Maina, Chairman, defunct Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT), and sentenced him to 8 years imprisonment. Justice Okon Abang, in his judgment, held that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had proven the essential ingredients of all the 12 counts...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Wednesday, opened its case in the money laundering case it instituted against Mrs Beauty Apere at the Federal High Court Yenagoa. The absence of EFCC’s star witness on Oct 20 had stalled the N200-million money laundering suit against Mr Embelakpo Apere, and...
The absence of counsel to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, in court on Wednesday stalled the money laundering trial. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a Federal High Court, Abuja had fixed today, Nov. 3, for...
Cross-examination of the Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, in a case of N761 million fraud was stalled in Lagos on Friday due to the defendant’s absence. The defendant, Abubakar Peters, contracted Coronavirus and is in an isolation centre, according to his counsel, Mr...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – An Associate Professor of Political Science, Federal University, Lafia, Nasarawa state, George Genyi, has stated that Nigeria has become “repressive and authoritarian” with corruption at its highest level. He stated this while speaking at a ‘state of the nation summit’ organized by the Academic Staff...