Civil Servant, Not Politicians Are Nigeria’s Biggest Problem

CorruptionNewsCivil Servant, Not Politicians Are Nigeria’s Biggest Problem

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)May 1, 2021

Politicians are popularly seen as the biggest challenge and problem in Nigeria’s progress but Charles Omole has posited that such is a wrong perspective and that the biggest challenge before the country is the civil servants, not politicians. Omole, who is an international legal scholar and consultant, maintained this position on Saturday during The Platform, a programme facilitated and hosted by the Senior Pastor of Covenant Christian Centre, Poju Oyemade. Omole noted that the civil...

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The Unfortunate Narrative of FG Funding Its Projects with Delta Money

CorruptionNational DevelopmentNewsNigeriaThe Unfortunate Narrative of FG Funding Its Projects with Delta Money

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)April 5, 2021

One major defect of our federalism is resource control. Resource control has consistently been discoursed and still under discussion by the Nigerian elites but the Nigerian government and lawmakers have been turning deaf ears to the yearning of many Nigerians. And recently, the Federal Government set to lay claim to Ibori loot, which by extension, is a wealth of Delta State. It is quite unfortunate that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has recently shown its unconsciousness...

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Ngige Urges Nigerians to Unite Against Insecurity, Corruption

CorruptionCrime & SecurityNewsNgige Urges Nigerians to Unite Against Insecurity, Corruption

PilotnewsApril 3, 2021

ABUJA — The Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige, has called on Nigerians to unite against insecurity and corruption as well as other challenges hindering development in the country. This is contained in a statement by Mr. Charles Akpan, Deputy Director Press and Public Relations of the ministry, and issued to newsmen on Saturday in Abuja. Ngige made the call while felicitating with Christians on the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Ngige...

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EFCC Bemoans Delay In DAAR Communication Founder, Dokpesi’s Trial

CorruptionLaw & JusticeNewsNigeriaEFCC Bemoans Delay In DAAR Communication Founder, Dokpesi’s Trial

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)March 26, 2021

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has expressed concerns over the delay in the trial of the founder of Daar Communication Plc, Chief Raymond Dokpesi. According to a statement by the anti-graft agency Wednesday, the proceedings which resumed on Tuesday, March 23, were stalled after Chika Odoemene, holding the brief of defense asked for an adjournment on the ground that their supreme witness was currently on admission at the hospital, adding that this made it...

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Arms Deal: Federal Government Tenders $1.3m, Other Currencies Before Federal High Court Abuja

CorruptionCrime & SecurityNewsArms Deal: Federal Government Tenders $1.3m, Other Currencies Before Federal High Court Abuja

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 25, 2021

The Federal Government on Thursday tendered before a Federal High Court in Abuja cash amounting to $1.3million and other currencies recovered from a member of the Presidential Committee on the Procurement of Arms and Equipment in the Armed Forces, Air Commodore Umar Mohammed (rtd). Umar and his firm, Easy Jet Integrated Services Limited, are being tried on three-count charges of alleged money laundering, illegal possession of firearms and classified documents without authority. He and the...

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ADHA Constitutes Ad-Hoc Committee To Investigation Alleged Illegal Sales Of Land By Girei Council Chairman

CorruptionLocal GovernmentNewsNigeriaADHA Constitutes Ad-Hoc Committee To Investigation Alleged Illegal Sales Of Land By Girei Council Chairman

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)March 24, 2021

Adamawa State House of Assembly has constituted a 7 man ad-hoc committee to carry out an investigation on the alleged illegal sales of land belonging to about 30 communities in Girei local government area by the council chairman Mr. Judah Amisa. The committee has three weeks within which to furnish the house with a report of its investigation. Recall that representatives of some communities in the local government area staged a peaceful protest last week...

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Bawa Charges EFCC Officials on Discipline and Professionalism

CorruptionCrime & SecurityNewsBawa Charges EFCC Officials on Discipline and Professionalism

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)March 22, 2021

The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, has charged operatives of the anti-corruption agency to be discipline and carry out their duties with utmost professionalism. The 40-year-old Bawa gave the charge on Monday during an operational visit to the Zonal Office of the commission in Sokoto State. The commission in a statement titled, ‘Anti-graft War: Bawa in Sokoto, Preaches Professionalism’, the not long Chairman stressed integrity as one of the cardinal...

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Former JAMB Registrar Arrested Over N900m Fraud

CorruptionEducationNewsNigeriaFormer JAMB Registrar Arrested Over N900m Fraud

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)March 18, 2021

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), has arrested a former Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor, Dibu Ojerinde, for allegedly misappropriating N900 million. ICPC said this in a statement signed on Wednesday by his spokesperson, Azuka Ogugua, adding that the former JAMB Boss was arrested on March 15, 2021, in Abuja. Ojerinde was alleged to have committed multiple frauds when he was head...

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Niger Delta Youths to Resist Diversion of 4.2m Pounds Ibori Loot

CorruptionMoneyNewsNiger Delta Youths to Resist Diversion of 4.2m Pounds Ibori Loot

PilotnewsMarch 16, 2021

ABUJA — The Niger Delta Youth Council (NDYC) said in Abuja on Tuesday that it would resist Federal Government’s plan not to remit the 4.2 million Pounds looted by Ibori to Delta. Last Tuesday, Nigeria and the UK signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in Abuja to repatriate the money looted by James Ibori when he was governor of Delta, The money, stashed in the UK was recovered by the British government from Ibori, his...

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Maina’s Request to Summon Witnesses to Court Was Done in Haste–Court

CorruptionLaw & JusticeNewsMaina’s Request to Summon Witnesses to Court Was Done in Haste–Court

PilotnewsMarch 12, 2021

ABUJA —  The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, held that the request by Abdulrasheed Maina, Chairman, defunct Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT), seeking it to compel some persons to testify in his ongoing trial was done in haste. Justice Okon Abang, while delivering a ruling on the oral application filed by Sani Katu, SAN, to withdraw from Maina’s suit, also said Maina should have himself to blame over the development on the subpoena he...

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