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ABUJA — Senator Matthew Urhoghide, Chairman, Senate Public Affairs Committee has ordered the management of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to refund to the country treasury the sum of N356 million it spent without necessary approvals. The committee had invited the NDLEA official over alleged unapproved spending and failure to account for advances granted to some of its officials. According to the committee, NDLEA officials had failed to justify the N365million being their...

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ABUJA — The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, and Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, have been sued before a Federal High Court in Abuja over an alleged unlawful contract of 190 km rail line construction to a Chinese firm without due process of the law. They were sued along with the Federal Ministry of Transportation and the benefitting firm, China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC). Plaintiffs in the suit...

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ABUJA — Lai Mohammad, minister of information and culture, has described the reforms initiated by President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration as effective. According to him, these reforms have played a major role in preventing corruption in the country. Mohammed said this on Thursday at a press conference in Abuja. “As you are aware, one of the three major policy planks of this administration is the fight against corruption, with the others, of course, being to tackle...

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ABUJA — The former Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to call the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to Order. The member of the ninth senate appealed to President Buhari to intervene by stopping the EFCC from constantly harassing and intimidating him over allegations of the N2.9 billion fraud case. Okorocha said this during a chat with State House correspondents after visiting the Presiden. The Senator explained that there has...

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ABUJA — The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has indicated that it secured its highest-ever number of convictions within one year in 2021. The anti-graft agency disclosed this in a publication that highlighted its activities in 2021. EFCC noted that it lost 122 cases and secured 2,220 convictions. This figure, according to the agency is the highest in the history of the commission, beating its previous record of 1,282 convictions in 2020. “From January...

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The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Ombi 1 Lafia, Nasarawa State, SP Ugochukwu Theodore was removed on the order of the Commissioner of Police in the State, Adesina Soyemi. Theodore was alleged to have demanded N40, 000 to carry out some electrical work and welding. It was alleged that the DPO wrote to all hotels within his jurisdiction, demanding N240, 000 from each of them to repair the official Toyota Hilux given to him for...

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ABUJA — 1,144 suspects linked to cases of corruption and fraud have been convicted between January 2 and November 14, 2021 according to the chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad. Muhammad said this at the third summit on diminishing corruption in the public sector, organized by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC). The chief justice said the committee set up to handle corruption and financial-related cases has propelled an...

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ABUJA — The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON)  Mr. Ahmed Lawan Kuru has submitted names of the top 1,000 loan defaulters to the National Assembly in another deft strategy to intensify its debt recovery drive. Kuru made this known to members of the House of Representatives Committee on Banking and Currency at the retreat of the committee in Lagos. He said the country’s bad debt bank has a high number...

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ILORIN — The Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has said the plan by the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party, to come back in 2023 to rule the state, is a wild goose chase. He said Kwara was blacklisted for the looting of the UBEC funds in 2013 by the former PDP administration. The governor in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Rafiu Ajakaye, on Monday said the “criminal diversion of funds” meant for...

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ABUJA — Abubakar Malami, minister of justice and attorney-general of the federation (AGF), has asked the house of reps to allocate some percentage of recovered loots to his minister, saying the ministry is in dire need of improved funding. Malami made the demand on Monday when he appeared before the house of representatives committee on justice to defend the 2022 budget proposal of the ministry of justice. According to him,  poor funding is dangerous for...

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