Tag: bribery
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Lagos CP sacks OC anti-kidnapping for alleged robbery
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, has ordered the removal of the Officer-in-Charge, Anti-Kidnapping and Anti-Cultism Squad, State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, CSP Akinade Adejobi. Adejobi and his officers were alleged to have taken N50,000 for the bail of one Blessing Taiwo, over an alleged theft. Also alleged to have seized the…
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Corruption: Which is worse: N400bn bribery or $15bnplus theft?
By Henry Boyo The recent publication of the National Bureau of Statistics’ survey titled, “Corruption in Nigeria; Bribery: Public Experience and Response,” triggered extensive public conversation regarding, the consolidated over N400bn bribes, reportedly paid nationwide between April 2015 – May 2016. The 2017 report, estimated that a total of 82.3 million bribes, with an average…
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Churches take bribe, encourage corruption – Obasanjo
Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has said that churches in Nigeria are abetting corruption by accepting gifts and other material things without concerning the source from the donors. Obasanjo stated this on Saturday, while speaking at the convention of Victory Life Bible Church International in Abeokuta, Ogun State. He was represented at the event by Femi…
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Presidency dismisses N500,000 bribery allegation against Buhari
The presidency on Wednesday, dismissed reports in some section of the media claiming President Muhammadu Buhari through his former lawyer, Kola Awodein bribed Justice Ademola with the sum of N500,000 during the certificate saga in the build up to the 2015 general elections. TheNewsGuru.com reports that an operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,…
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Alleged N111m INEC bribery: Rivers Govt denies involvement
The Rivers State Government on Tuesday denied that Governor Nyesom Wike allegedly spent N111million to bribe Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) staff during the Dec. 10 re-run legislative election. TheNewsGuru.com reports that the panel constituted to investigate the electoral and other offences perpetrated during the re-run election alleged that it recovered N111 million from 23…
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Exposed: How Buhari’s SGF, Lawal got N200m bribe from weed clearing contract
Facts have emerged how the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Babachir Lawal, who owns Rholavision Engineering Ltd, got N200m kickback from a contract he awarded for the clearing of “invasive plant species” in Yobe state. In the course of an investigation conducted by TheNewsGuru on the several corruption allegations leveled against the…