Tag: corruption
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PDP to Oshiomhole: Leave us alone, face your corruption charges
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has told the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, to leave the party alone and face his pending corruption allegations. The party accused the chair of seeking a face-saving measure by embarking on what it described as shadow-boxing against the PDP. In a statement Tuesday…
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Alleged corruption: FIFA expected to take over running of CAF
A drastic and dramatic overhaul of African football is expected to be announced on Thursday, the eve of the kickoff of the African Cup of Nations, in the wake of corruption scandals consuming the Confederation of African Football (CAF). The CAF executive committee took a stunning decision on Wednesday to cede control of the running…
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Buhari threatens to sanction lawyers, bankers facilitating corrupt practices
President Muhammadu Buhari says his administration will ensure effective asset declaration by public office holders and ensure sanctions by professional bodies against lawyers, bankers, brokers, public officials, and other individuals facilitating corrupt practices. The president gave this assurance while speaking at the National Democracy Day Anti-Corruption Summit in Abuja on Tuesday. Buhari said the government…
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Buhari highlights eight new ways he’ll tackle corruption in second term
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday listed eight priorities he will give more attention to give his anti-corruption agenda a big bite in the next four years. He also said the governments will soon device new strategies to win the war. He said he will press for a crackdown on safe havens for corrupt assets, abolition…
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We’ll rid Nigeria of corruption – ICPC
Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says the commission would support the Buhari administration in ridding the country of corruption. He said this while declaring open the Consultative Meeting of the Network of Anti-Corruption Institutions in West Africa (NACIWA) to “Develop Faculties for Training on Corruption Risk Assessment…
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Buhari will ‘frontally’ tackle corruption in second term – Lai Mohammed
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has assured the international community that President Muhammadu Buhari’s new administration will be more determined in the fight against corruption. Mr Mohammed, who gave the assurance in Washington D.C., in an interview with the Voice of America (VOA), said the president will not compromise his anti-corruption programmes…
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Ethiopia arrests 59 officials over corruption, economic sabotage
Ethiopian Attorney-General, Berhanu Tsegaye, on Friday said 59 government officials were arrested on suspicion of corruption and economic sabotage in the latest sweeping crackdown by the administration. Tsegaye said those arrested in an operation on Thursday included the head and other staff of the government’s Public Procurement and Property Disposal Service, while others worked in…
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EFCC responds to U.S. Report indicting it of shielding corrupt officials in Buhari’s government
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday faulted a report by the United States alleging that Nigeria has made little progress in fighting corruption. It said it has secured 943 convictions between 2015 and 2018. The commission also said it has recovered N676, 522, 889, 647.05; $254, 563, 877.27 £486, 736.82 Pound; €8,…
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Buhari’s re-election will sustain fight against corruption – Ribadu
Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, a former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFFC), says President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election will sustain the fight against corruption in the country. Ribadu, who was the Chairman of President Buhari’s re-election Campaign Organisation, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in…
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I’ve never been convicted of corruption – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday stated that he was never convicted of corruption in all the positions he held in the country. He promised Nigerians that he will continue to uphold the trust they have in him if re-elected for a second term in office. He made the declaration at the Park Oruta Ngele Township…