Showing posts with label Corruption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Corruption. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Nigeria police targeting whistleblower who exposed payroll fraud

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The Coalition for Whistleblowers Protection and Press Freedom (CWPPF) has called on the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun,...
Thursday, September 11, 2025

Ex-NNPC official convicted in US over $2.1 million bribery scandal

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A United States judge has found Paulinus Okoronkwo, a Nigerian lawyer based in Los Angeles, guilty of receiving a $2.1 million bribe from a ...
Thursday, July 10, 2025

We’ve uncovered massive fraud in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry – EFCC

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The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, said the agency conducted a preliminary probe into Niger...
Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Top officials barred from travel amid Nigeria's $2.9 billion oil refinery fraud

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In a recent development, the Nigerian Immigration Service confiscated the passports of multiple officials accused of mismanaging funds set a...
Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Video - Millions of Nigerian landowners lack government-issued titles

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According to Nigerian government data, less than 10 percent of land is officially documented, leaving millions of landowners without gove...
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Corruption watchdog in Nigeria recovers nearly $500 million in one year

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Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has announced a major anti-corruption milestone, recovering nearly $500 million in...
Monday, March 10, 2025

Nigeria's anti-graft agency recovers nearly $30 mln in corruption probe

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Nigeria's anti-corruption agency has recovered $28.88 million after launching an investigation into alleged fraud at a government minist...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Nigeria to spend seized money on rural electrification

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On Friday, the government announced that millions in recovered funds linked to former Petroleum Resources Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke wi...
Friday, January 10, 2025

US returns $50m in alleged stolen funds to Nigeria

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Close to $53m (£43m) in alleged illicit funds recovered from Nigeria's former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke among others will be u...
Wednesday, December 4, 2024

EFCC seizes hundreds of homes in huge anti-graft case in Nigeria

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Nigeria's anti-graft agency has said it has made its biggest ever seizure of assets, alleged to have been purchased with the proceeds of...
Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Nigeria recovered $5 billion in stolen assets over 25 years

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Nigeria has successfully recovered over $5 billion in assets over the past 25 years, according to a report from the Civil Society Legislativ...
Friday, September 27, 2024

Nigeria prison officials suspended over celebrity jail row

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Two senior Nigerian prison officials have been suspended over bribery allegations regarding controversial transgender celebrity Bobrisky. It...
Thursday, May 16, 2024

Abacha’s family challenges revocation of Abuja land

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The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, fixed 27 June for judgment in a suit by the family of the late Nigerian military ruler, Sani Ab...
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Former Kwara finance commissioner arrested for N1.22 billion fraud

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned a former Commissioner for Finance in Kwara State, Ademola Banu, at the Fe...
Thursday, April 18, 2024

Nigerian film star Amal Umar arrested on bribery charges

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One of Nigeria's most popular actresses has been arrested for allegedly trying to bribe a police officer in Kano state. Police say Amal ...
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Nigeria recovers $24m in poverty minister Betta Edu investigation

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Nigeria has recovered 30bn naira ($24m; £19m) as part of an ongoing corruption probe into a suspended minister, the financial watchdog says....
Monday, April 8, 2024

Ex-Central Bank Governor of Nigeria Godwin Emefiele pleads not guilty to fresh charges

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission accused Emefiele of arbitrarily allocating foreign exchange of about $2 billion without bids a...
Friday, January 12, 2024

Video - Central Bank of Nigeria dissolves boards of three lenders over non-compliance

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Nigeria's Central Bank has sacked the boards and management of three lenders due to what it called regulatory infringements and acts t...
Tuesday, January 9, 2024

President Tinubu suspends humanitarian minister in corruption scandal

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Nigeria’s president on Monday suspended the country’s minister of humanitarian affairs and poverty alleviation over the use of a private ban...
Monday, January 8, 2024

Dead evangelist TB Joshua accused of sexual abuse

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  Before his death in 2021 at the age of 57, TB Joshua was one of Africa's most influential televangelists. The Christian preacher attr...