The Presidential Panel set up to probe the suspended acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has started a physical verification of all assets seized by the EFCC. The panel, headed by the former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami, has visited Abuja, Lagos, Rivers State and few other major offices of the commission. A source close to the panel said the aim of the exercise was...

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called on Chairman of Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, to point out the owner of the accounts where N2.67 billion meant for the school feeding programme was diverted to. The national students’ body stated that it was not enough for the ICPC chief to tell Nigerians that the agency found over N2.5 billion school feeding funds diverted and lodged in...

The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq has disassociated the ministry from the alleged N2.67bn school feeding fraud uncovered by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC). The ICPC had earlier claimed that the N2.67 billion paid to some federal colleges for school feeding during the COVID-19 lockdown ended up in private bank accounts. However, the minister in a statement issued by Nneka Ikem Anibeze, special...