Despite Nigerian Government’s anti-corruption campaign, Transparency International on Thursday ranked the country 146th in its 2019 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). The global watchdog’s 2019 report covered...
Prosecutors in Angola have named Africa’s richest woman, Isabel dos Santos, as a suspect over alleged mismanagement and misappropriation of funds while she was chairwoman of...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has suggested that there is a very high level of corruption under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. This was especially as...
Oyo State Governor, Oluseyi Makinde has revealed that his predecessor, Abiola Ajimobi, withdrew N5.2 billion three weeks to his handing over, and spent all but N19,000...
A new public survey released today (Wednesday) by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) shows that corruption remains a serious problem in Nigeria. It also showed,...
The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has reacted to the conviction and sentencing of Senator Orji Kalu for N7.56 billion fraud. BMO said that the conviction of...
President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmed Lawan has said that the Senate will from the next budget circle increase funding for security agencies and anti-corruption bodies...
A former Secretary-General of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, Amaechi Akawo, is currently in custody of in detention for allegedly misappropriating $130,000. Akawo was detained by...
The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, Tuesday decried the spate of corruption in Nigeria despite efforts to curb the...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has said that it recovered over 200 properties from suspected corrupt individuals in the past eight...
The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Professor Itse Sagay, on Thursday revealed that over N1 trillion looted from government treasury has been...
The wave of corruption practices being experienced today in Nigeria is not as reckless as in the past, so says Ibrahim Magu, the Acting Chairman of...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), has uncovered over N900billion constituency project funds diverted by federal lawmakers in 12 states of the...
President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday urged Nigerians to be patriotic and avoid divisive acts. He stated this in his address to the nation as Nigeria marks...
You can accuse Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo of being ‘’down-to-earth’’, considering his pint-size. You can also accuse him of intellectual exuberance, but you cannot tack corruption to...
Following series of bad media against the office of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, the embattled number two citizen is fighting back to salvage his damaged reputation....
Protesters under the aegis of Lagos Youth Vanguard (LYV) on Tuesday stormed the Lagos State House of Assembly and the state secretariat demanding the probe of...
Demonstrations have erupted in several Egyptian cities with protesters calling for the resignation of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, over allegations of corruption. Protests were reported in...
A former director of Kenya’s anti-corruption agency, Professor Patrick Lumumba has revealed when and how corruption would end in Nigeria. He said the day Nigerians would...
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged Nigerians to always see corruption as a gross violation of human rights. He said it was corruption that subjected millions of...
The governor of Sokoto State Aminu Tambuwal has emphasised the need to depoliticize the fight against corruption in the country. Tambuwal who made the assertion on...
Former All Progressives Congress (APC) deputy national publicity secretary, Timi Frank, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of appointing “corruption masters” as ministers and called on Nigerians...
The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has said the resignation of some very senior public servants is another pointer to a new phase of the anti-corruption war,...
Six Chinese companies operating in Nigeria have incurred the wrath of the World Bank as they have been blacklisted over alleged fraud and corruption. A publication...
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the Presidency of indulging in neck-deep corruption and looting of taxpayers’ monies. It said the leaked letter was an...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to prove the sincerity of his anti-graft war by allowing a system-wide probe into the activities...
One of the primary responsibilities of government is to provide – or regulate the provision of – efficient service to the populace. Successive Nigerian government has...
The acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has described corruption as the root cause of the current insecurity in Nigeria....
Acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has decried the slow pace at which the UK authorities are prosecuting the former...
The acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, on Tuesday said that no perpetrator of any form of corruption, regardless of...
The Acting Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibrahim Magu, has decried the scourge of corruption in Africa, stating that the country...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has been described as one of the Federal Government agencies that has always made efforts to check corruption. The claim...
The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari has been queried by the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations (UN) for his inability to stem the high...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday sought spiritual supports of religious leaders in the country. In a meeting with clerics from different faiths...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on Tuesday commenced the first phase of investigation of fraudulent procurement practices in the award of...
On June 11, 2019, the 9th National Assembly was inaugurated. Former Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan, who is representing Yobe North Senatorial District, of Yobe State got...
Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Friday sounded a note of warning to officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) on the need to...
Senegalese President Macky Sall has said that his administration would uncover the truth after a BBC report alleged his brother Aliou Sall had been involved in...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has declared that no Nigerian has any reason to pay bribes to law enforcement agencies in order to obtain drivers licenses, passports...
Local government administrations in Nigeria would not be able to withdraw cash above N500,000 daily, from June 1, 2019, the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit, NFIU, has...
The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr Ibrahim Magu, has accused some bank staff of sabotaging the efforts of the commission to...
The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, on Wednesday, indicted state governors over the festering insecurity in parts of the...
A group, the coalition of South-East Youths has attacked the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, over its decision to zone the office of the Senate President...
Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Bolaji Owasanoye, says the commission would support the Buhari administration in ridding the country...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has lauded President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s achievements in the areas of corruption and insecurity. According to him, Buhari’s...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) chairman, Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, has said that there is more corruption in the executive arm of...
Despite President Muhammadu Buhari’s acclaimed fight against corruption, United States (US) Department of State report has said Nigeria was a haven for corruption in 2018. The...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has said Mr. Tunde Ayeni allegedly took over N17 billion in raw cash from the Suspense Account of Skye...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has requested the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC to probe the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai...
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting at Maitama, has approved accelerated hearing of a suit seeking to compel the Economic and Financial Crimes...