Tag: corruption
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INEC, PDP, OTHERS VOW TO FIGHT CORRUPTION, INDUCEMENT IN CANDIDATES’ NOMINATION PROCESS
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, political parties and stakeholders have unanimously bemoaned the overwhelming corruption in the nomination of candidates in political parties amongst other issues. INEC’s Assistant Director Publicity, Chinwe Ogbuka led the lamentation on Thursday, during a special radio town hall meeting against corruption, organized by Progressive Impact Organization for Community Development,…
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TI corruption rating shows Buhari-led govt is most corrupt in Nigeria’s history —PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the corruption index report on Nigeria by Transparency International (TI) confirmed the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC government as a citadel of corruption and the most corrupt administration in the nation’s history. Nigeria was abysmally rated 149 out of 180 countries on transparency, which was the worst performance…
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Governors, several others will be in prison if not for FG’s silence on corruption – Soyinka
Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, on Wednesday, lambasted the Nigerian government for its inefficiency in the fight against corruption in the country, saying many persons ought to be in jail if the system worked. Soyinka noted that corruption cases involving some state governors over whom much evidence had already been gathered suddenly died down without…
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BREAKING: FIFA bans CAF President, Ahmad Ahmad from football
World’s football governing body, Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) has handed the President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Ahmad Ahmad a five-year ban. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the independent Ethics Committee of FIFA found Ahmad guilty of financial misconduct, with the ban set to affect his ambition to contest for the CAF presidency…
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Police dismiss 10 officers for murder, corruption, other offences in Lagos
The Lagos State Police Command has dismissed 10 personnel for offences ranging from murder, discreditable conduct, excessive use of power, corrupt practices, and negligence. The Lagos police Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, made this known in a press statement on Wednesday. The statement was titled ‘Lagos command kicks against indiscipline, dismisses 10 personnel’. It noted…
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2021 Budget is a recipe for corruption – Lawmakers
Barely 24 hours to the presentation of the 2021 budget by President Muhammadu Buhari, some lawmakers in the National Assembly (NASS) have described the proposed budget as a recipe for corruption. The lawmakers who are mainly in the opposition told TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) that there is no need going too far that merely looking at the…
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Senate President speaks on corruption in Buhari’s government
Senate President Ahmad Lawan has said those insinuating that graft and corrupt tendencies are more prevalent under the Muhammadu Buhari administration are being political and petty. Lawan said this on Monday while addressing State House Correspondents after the second National Summit on Diminishing Corruption and launch of the National Ethics and Integrity Policy by the…
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SERAP tackles Buhari over ‘missing ’15 corruption case files, 103 others stuck in Malami’s office
A Nigerian rights group claimed that some 15 corruption case files are missing in the office of Justice Minister, Abubakar Malami and that 103 other high profile cases are yet to receive his attention, three years after the EFCC referred them to him. Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has therefore sent an open letter…
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NDDC: President Buhari should act on the IMC indictment for corruption, By Ebi Arogbofa
BY Ebi Arogbofa At the just ended retreat for his ministers at which they reviewed their first year performances, President Muhammadu Buhari was upbeat that his administration has shown probity and accountability in the manner it has tackled the problem of corruption. To a partisan watcher of the president, he may have got accolades…
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Time runs out on Nigeria as corruption ascends to pinnacle – Godwin Etakibuebu
By Godwin Etakibuebu Above caption is not exaggerated at all, and there is no argument about the fact that Nigeria has not gone down into abyss of corruption and insecurity as low as this before. May be, it will be nice to go through what Professor Itse Sagay said very recently, on the matter of…