“Ethics interventions” at NLC cost more than R6-million ProEthics was paid millions of rands by the National Lotteries Commission (NLC) for ethics-related interventions at a time that the NLC was overwhelmed with allegations of corruption. The NLC has since been instructed to suspend the company’s services and stop payments to it. The payments to ProEthics […]
Tag: Corruption
Nigeria transitioned to democracy in 1999, despite the persistence of insecurity, extreme poverty, and endemic corruption. Nevertheless, the country has conducted six national elections that have frequently been tainted by instances of fraud, technical complications, violence, and legal disputes. On February 25, 2023, Nigerians again exercised their democratic rights by participating in the presidential elections, […]
A review of the proposed legislation passed by the Senate shows it can render the ICPC chair redundant and incapacitate the commission to fight corruption. The Senate has passed a bill to amend the law establishing the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), which steeply cuts down on the power of the […]
Fellow Nigerians, let me tell you from the outset and without equivocation that I voted “against” the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the February 25th presidential election. And if the opportunity arises again, I will repeat the same thing, whether in the rain or in the scorching sun. It […]
The judge of the Commercial Court of England & Wales, Justice Robin Knowles, last week saved Nigeria from becoming a victim of a monumental financial scam to the tune of $11 billion (approximately N13 trillion), or half of the country’s proposed 2024 budget. If the ruling had gone in favour of the crooks, the Process […]
London — Lawyers for Lebanese billionaire Iskandar Safa and his Privinvest group of companies on Friday at the High Court in London argued that Mozambique had conceived the idea of building a tuna fishing fleet long before Privinvest arrived in the country and that it was the then President, Armando Guebuza, who had approached Privinvest […]
The former minister arrived at the headquarters of the commission in Abuja in honour of an earlier invitation over the pending N37.1 billion fraud case on Monday morning. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has detained a former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, for questioning over allegations of […]
United States Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, on Tuesday, pressed Nigeria to tackle barriers like corruption and difficulty repatriating profits that have dampened the business climate for American companies looking to invest in Africa’s largest economy. He disclosed this to State House correspondents after meeting with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. […]
President Tinubu suspended the Mr Ahmad-led management team indefinitely on Thursday over a N1.2 billion corruption case, previously reported extensively by PREMIUM TIMES. President Bola Tinubu has placed the Ahmad Salihijo Ahmad-led executives of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) on an indefinite suspension over alleged corruption.. A statement by presidential spokesperson, Ajuri Ngelale, on Thursday, […]