By BENJAMIN ORISEMEKE, Abuja – The inter-agency Joint Regulatory and Enforcement Task Force (JRETF); particularly FCCPC, NITDA and ICPC have advanced investigations with respect to digital money lenders. In a joint statement on the issue and signed by Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the FCCPC, Babatunde Irukera, said...
Icpc
Former Nigerian president, Olusegun Obasanjo has said some presidential aspirants for next year’s general elections should be in jail if the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) did their jobs effectively. Obasanjo stated this while speaking during an...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) has emerged the second highest ranking agency with a score of 89.6% out of 360 Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of the Federal Government in the 2021 Ethics and Integrity Compliance Card (EICS) of the Independent Corrupt Practices...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, gave an interim order forfeiting 10 properties of former Governor of Zamfara, Abdulaziz Yari, to the Federal Government. Justice Obiora Egwuatu gave the order following an ex-parte motion marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1342/2021 moved by counsel for the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences...
Mr Bako Nathan, Head, Special Operations, Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), says the commission has blocked unspent funds of government agencies totaling N189 billion in 2019 and 2020, collectively. Nathan disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja before the House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee investigating...
The House of Representatives committees on Anti-Corruption and Public Service Matters on Tuesday summoned the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha and heads of Ministries, Department and Agencies (MDAs) for failing to honour an invitation to an investigative hearing. The joint committee is furious that none...
Information and Culture Minister Lai Mohammed has dragged an online publication, Pointblank News, before an Abuja High court over alleged libel. In a copy of the Writ of Summon obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, the minister is seeking the sum of N50 billion aggravated...
The Federal Government has said that the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) had tracked 2,000 projects worth over N300 billion, between 2019 and 2021, through its Constituency and Executive Projects Tracking Initiative. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed disclosed this, in Abuja, while briefing the media...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has commenced an investigation into the utilisation of the N950 million Coronavirus (COVID-19) Intervention Fund by the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital. Mrs Azuka Ogugua, Spokesperson of ICPC, in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday said that all...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Bello has commissioned the 5 storey office complex of the Abuja Property Development Company (APDC) located at Plot 1329, Peace Drive, Central Business District, Abuja. The Minister in his address commended the pioneer as well as the current management...
The Director-General of the Budget Office of the Federation, Mr. Ben Akabueze, on Friday said funds were withheld for duplicated projects in the 2021 budget. He made the disclosure during an interview on Sunrise Daily where he spoke about the measures taken by the Budget Office to prevent wastage...
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...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offices Commission (ICPC), has denied media report on certificate and age scandal rocking the commission, urging the public to disregard such publication. Spokesperson for the Commission, Mrs Azuka Ogugua, said this in a statement in Abuja on...
The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC), the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have commenced rights violation investigation into the money lending industry. A document signed by Mr Babatunde Irukera, the Chief Executive Officer of FCCPC for the Joint Regulatory and...
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...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and the Department of State Services (DSS) have arrested 48 individuals for their alleged illegalities in the conducts of the Joint Universities Preliminary Examinations Board (JUPEB). According to a statement by ICPC spokesperson, Azuka Ogugua, the joint operation tagged...