Tag: corruption
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Buhari challenges citizens to expose corrupt officials in government
President Muhammadu Buhari, has urged persons or organisations with any evidence of corrupt practices against members of his administration to come forward with such evidences to him for prompt action. The president gave the challenge at a town hall meeting tagged: ‘The Candidates’ organised by the MacArthur Foundation, in collaboration with NTA and DARIA Media…
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Buhari lacks integrity, condones corruption – Saraki
Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has said President Muhammadu Buhari has no integrity and his government condones corruption. Speaking in a Channels TV interview Wednesday, in his capacity as the director general of the Atiku Campaign Council, Saraki said the president was tolerating corrupt associates and that has cost him his integrity. “There is no doubt…
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Presidency warns appointees against using ‘Buhari’s name’ for corruption
The Presidency on Tuesday issued a stern warning to political appointees, government officials and party men against influence peddling for corrupt pecuniary gains and other forms of extortion. A presidential spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, told State House Correspondents in Abuja that complaints of extortions of innocent people by what he called “self-serving name droppers and…
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World loses $2.3trn to corruption annually – UN
Oliver Stolpe, Country Representative, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), has said that the world loses $2.3 trillion to corruption annually. He disclosed this at the Corruption Risk Assessment (CRA) training organised for Heads of Anti-Corruption Agencies of member-countries of African Union (AU) in Abuja, on Monday. The training was organised by the…
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$1trn paid in bribes, $2.6trn stolen annually
The UN says one trillion dollars are paid in bribes annually, while another 2.6 trillion are stolen, all due to corruption. The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, while counting the costs of corruption, said values and economic development were under assault, as trillions of dollars were lost. He said every year, trillions of dollars – equivalent…
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Boko Haram: Nigeria soldiers release video, lament obsolete weapons, accuse commanders of corruption
Some soldiers in the Nigerian Army deployed for the anti-Boko Haram operations have allegedly accused top commanders of leading them to ‘Boko Haram slaughter’ armed with obsolete weapons while diverting the funds meant to procure better arms. According to Premium Times, the soldiers made these allegations in a hazy video, taken from a camera phone,…
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Corruption allegations: Direct your anger at Transparency International, not me – Jonathan tells Presidency
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has told the President Muhammadu Buhari led federal government to leave him alone and face Transparency International, who claimed that Nigeria was more corrupt today than under the last Peoples Democratic Party government. In a statement released by Jonathan’s media office and signed by his former media aide, Reno Omokri, the…
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Adamawa governorship candidates who are enmeshed in corruption allegations
As the campaign season kicks in, there are palpable fears in Adamawa, in the camps of four of the leading gubernatorial candidates, because of various corruption cases hanging over their candidates. Candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), African Democratic Congress (ADC) and the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the State…
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Oshiomhole meets Buhari, dismisses allegations of corruption
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Adams Oshiomhole, has dismissed allegations that he collected bribes of about 80 million dollars to manipulate the outcome of the party primaries in some states and FCT. Some agrieved aspirants are accusing Oshiohmole of collecting various sums in bribery to twist the primaries. Speculations are…
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FG’s refusal to obey court order is corruption – Emir
The Emir of Gummi, Justice Lawal Hassan Gummi (retd.), says refusal to obey a court order is another form of corruption, noting that government must exemplify the change it promised before expecting citizens to follow suit. He said disrespect for the rule of law, bad governance, disobedience to court orders, non-compliance with electoral regulations by…