By InfactNG Reno Omokri, a social media influencer and aide to former President, Goodluck Jonathan has given 20 reasons he believes, Transparency International ( TI), an anti-corruption watchdog was right in its latest assessment of Nigeria's corruption index. The TI had last week released its corruption index report which indicated that Nigeria ...
By InfactNG The Strengthening Citizens’ Resistance Against Prevalence of Corruption (SCRAP-C) project has urged Nigerians to embrace the values of Honesty, Integrity and Transparency (H.I.T) as a way of reducing the burden of Corruption on Nigeria and its citizens. Led by a Consortium of three national Non-Governmental Organisations - ActionAid ...
The Federal Government claim of feeding school pupils during the COVID-19 lockdown is one of the most controversial claims. Victor Emeruwa visits several schools and communities in Kaduna State, he finds several cases of abandonment, non-compliance and outright cases of corruption in the government home grown school feeding program. By ...
By Muhammad Gado Four personnel of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) standing trial before the General Court Marshal (GCM) sitting at the NAF Base Makurdi have been found guilty of misappropriating the funds of the Multipurpose Cooperative Society. The Four accused who were executive members of the 151 Base Services ...
Many residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are in agony over the distribution of the palliatives running into millions of naira as allegations of thuggery; partiality and wanton corruption mar the exercise. African Quarters investigates Blessing John was eight months pregnant and alone when she fell. At first, she ...
From Kolawole Omoniyi, Kano A number of stakeholders including Kano Anti-Corruption Agency, Civil Society Groups and Persons Living With Disability (PLWD) have decried the irregularities recorded during the last two batches of COVID-19 palliative distributions in Kano over alleged hijack by politicians and poor monitoring of the distribution to the ...
By Ademola Adeleye Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Professor Daniel Pondei, lived up to his name today. A Daniel who found himself in the den, no, not of roaring lions but a carefully laid net by a group of lawmakers who were determined to rip ...
By INFACTNG The former Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibrahim Magu hàs insisted his ordeal was a ploy to tarnish his image and that of the EFCC. Magu who spoke shortly after he was released from detention following his arrest on July 6, 2020 insisted ...
By Ademola Adeleye The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu has been suspended by President Muhammadu Buhari. The suspension according to sources followed Magu's indictment by a Presidential panel led by Justice Ayo Salami (rtd) which was constituted to probe activities of the EFCC ...
In August 2019, the Nigerian Government led by President Muhammadu Buhari declared a partial land border closure in order to halt the importation of food among other goods. The smuggling of rice – Nigeria’s staple food – remains business as usual despite the restriction order by the president. GABRIEL OGUNJOBI ...
