Tag: Whistle Blowers
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Whistleblowing group petitions Reps over alleged N3trn scam by shipping giant, MSC
Anger escalated at the National Assembly as a civic group under the banner of the Citizens WhistleBlowers Coalition (CWC) submitted a formal petition against global shipping powerhouse Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), alleging massive financial misconduct, regulatory violations, and deliberate subversion of Nigeria’s legal authority. In what is developing into one of the biggest corporate accountability…
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Whistle blowers urge Tinubu to prosecute Emefiele for unleashing financial genocide
A group under the aegis of Geoge Uboh Whistleblowers Network (GUWN), has called on President Bola Tinubu and International community to prosecute the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria ( CBN ), Godwin Emefiele for unleashing financial genocide on Nigerians.
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Whistle Blowers’ bag three months imprisonment for false information [PHOTOS]
Justice O.A. Musa of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Bwari, Abuja today July 15, 2021, convicted the trio of Lawal Umar, a 45-year-old property agent; Alexander Danjuma, a 43-year-old mechanic and Theophilus Omambala, a 47-year-old engineer for giving false information to operatives of the Abuja Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,…
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8,000 whistle blowers recorded in 1yr – Presidential panel
No fewer than 8,000 whistle blowers were recorded by the Federal Government in the last one year, the Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption (PACAC), has said. Executive Secretary of PACAC, Prof. Bolaji Owasonoye, told the Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York that the whistle blower’s policy had succeeded resoundingly.…
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Ikoyi whistle-blower to get N421m this week
The whistle-blower that provided information leading to the recovery of the N13bn Ikoyi loot will receive his commission this week, investigations have revealed. The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, had two weeks ago said that the Federal Government would pay the sum of N421,330,595 to only one individual identified for providing information that led…
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Senate passes Whistle Blowers’ Protection Bill, Witness Protection Bill
The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday passed the three Anti Corruption Bills – Witness Protection Bill; Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Bill and Whistle Blowers’ Protection Bill 2017. Meanwhile, in support of the anti-corruption agenda of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government, the Senate are solved to pass a law to establish a substantive and autonomous…
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Two Whistle-blowers land in EFCC net over false information
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, arraigned the duo of Buhari Fannami and Ba-Kura Abdullahi on two separate one count charge before Justice M. T Salihu of the Federal High Court Maiduguri, for allegedly giving false information to the agency under the whistle blowing policy. Fannamit had misled the EFCC with the information…
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FG working on 2,500 tips from whistle blowers – Adeosun
The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun on Tuesday has said that the Federal Government had received over 2,500 tips from whistle-blowers that could lead to loot recovery and blocking of leakages. Adeosun made the disclosure at a town hall meeting in Abuja while highlight the achievements of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. On other measures…