Tag: Bribe
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Two police officers rewarded for rejecting N1m bribe
APolice Inspector Garba Saleh Rabo, with the Operations Department, Kano State Police Command, has rejected N1 million offered to him as a bribe. The acting Managing Director, Kano Consumer Protection Council (CPC) Baffa Dan-Agundi presented the Inspector and one other, Jamilu Alkasim to the Kano State Commissioner of Police, Sama’ila Dikko on Thursday. A statement…
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Soldier shoots truck driver for refusing to pay N200 bribe in Rivers
There was pandemonium on Saturday at the Airport Junction, Omuagwa Community, Ikwerre Local Government Area, Rivers State, following the shooting of a trailer driver by a yet-to-be-identified soldier. According to reports, the incident happened at an Army Checkpoint along Port Harcourt-Airport-Owerri Road, Omagwa, at about 9 pm on Friday. It was learnt that the soldier…
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NDDC: AGF Malami reacts to allegations of receiving bribe from Akpabio
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, (SAN) has denied the allegation that he collected gratification from the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio in respect of the appointment of a Sole Administrator for the NDDC. Malami made the denial in a statement issued by Dr Umar Gwandu, his…
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N100,000 bribe lands senior Lagos police officer in trouble
One Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP Popoola Kayode, leader of Taskforce team operating around Lekki Ajah area of Lagos State and his team members have been arrested for collecting N100,000 bribe. The Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit (Taskforce), Head, Public Affairs Unit, Adebayo Taofiq said this in a statement on Sunday made…
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Probe: I have never received bribe all my life – Magu
Suspended Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu on Wednesday said he has never received bribe all his life. Magu was testifying before the Justice Ayo Salami panel probing allegations of corruption against him. The suspended EFCC boss said anyone who claim he had ever given him bribe should come…
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I did not give Shehu Sani bribe, witness tells court
Alhaji Sani Dauda, a prosecution witness, on Tuesday, denied giving Sen. Shehu Sani bribe. Dauda made this known in a Federal High Court,Abuja, while being cross-examined in the ongoing trial of Sani over alleged bribery and advanced fee fraud, The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) slammed a two-count charge on Sani bordering on name-dropping,…
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[Photo] Two Chinese arrested for offering EFCC N100m bribe
The Sokoto Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested two Chinese nationals, Meng Kun and Xu Koi, for allegedly offering N100 million as bribe to its zonal head, Abdullahi Lawal. In a statement signed by its spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, on Tuesday, the suspects were arrested on Monday in Sokoto, with the…
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I missed 2014 World Cup for not paying bribe – Obasi
Nigeria striker Chinedu Obasi said he was sad and heartbroken after he was dropped from the country’s team for the 2014 Fifa World Cup in Brazil because he refused to pay a bribe. The former Schalke 04 star recalled how he was denied selection for his second World Cup tournament after his fine outing with…
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Court convicts INEC officials who received bribes from Diezani
A Deputy Director of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Auwal Jibrin, has been sentenced to six years in jail for benefiting from the $115.010m largesse of a former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke, in the run-up to the 2015 presidential election. Justice Yusuf Birnin-Kudu of Jigawa State High Court sitting in Gumel, has sentenced Jibrin…
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How lawmakers threatened to sack me for declining to offer them bribe – NAFDAC DG
The Director-General of the National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Mojisola Adeyeye, has claimed that the House of Representatives committee on healthcare services had demanded a bribe from her. Concise News reports that speaking when she was a guest on Sunrise Daily, a Channels TV programme on Friday, Adeyeye said the committee…