Two additional fictitious government agencies allegedly created by Adeniyi Matthew Adeyemi, the self-acclaimed Director-General of the non-existent Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), have been uncovered by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC). The findings were contained in an interim report presented to President Bola Tinubu on Thursday, August 6, according to the ICPC chairman, Musa Aliyu. Aliyu disclosed that investigators uncovered two additional fictitious agencies allegedly floated by Adeyemi to...

…Governor Adeleke Heads to Court The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has frozen the Osun State Government’s statutory allocation account over an alleged ₦11 billion financial irregularity involving Ecology Funds, Intervention Funds and Federal Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) funds. The development has sparked a fresh confrontation between the anti-graft agency and Governor Ademola Adeleke, who accused the EFCC of acting unlawfully and ordered the state Attorney-General to challenge the restriction at the Federal High...

…ADC Describes Commission’s Action As Political Terrorism, Threat To Democracy Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has slammed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over the freezing of Osun State government’s account, insisting that the anti-graft agency lacks the power to tamper with the finances of a constitutionally elected administration just days before the governorship election. Adeleke reacted on Wednesday following reports that the EFCC placed one of the Osun State Government’s accounts with First Bank...