Thursday, December 19

Corruption

Hushpuppi: Nigeria Police Reacts To FBI’s Fraud Allegations Against Kyari, Orders Probe
30Jul By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments
Corruption, Crime, News, Nigeria

Hushpuppi: Nigeria Police Reacts To FBI’s Fraud Allegations Against Kyari, Orders Probe

The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has issued a directive for the immediate probe of the Commander, IGP Intelligence Response Monitoring Team, DCP Abba Kyari, who has been declared a person of interest by a United States Court for his alleged rapport to international fraudster, Ramon Abbas, alias Hushpuppi. Kyari, who is popularly known as ‘super cop,’ had received rapid promotions and a commendation from the National Assembly for his exploits in combating crime. His arrest of several notorious criminals, including alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudi Onuamadike, commonly known as Evans, among other notable arrests, shot him to the limelight. On Wednesday, however, an unsealed 69-page court document showed that he had been under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigat...
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Hushpuppi Recounts How He Paid Bribes To Police Chief, Abba Kyari In $1.1million Deal
29Jul By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments
Corruption, News, Nigeria

Hushpuppi Recounts How He Paid Bribes To Police Chief, Abba Kyari In $1.1million Deal

A suspected fraudster, Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, popularly known as Hushpuppi, who pleaded guilty in the United States, has narrated how he bribed Nigeria’s celebrated Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, according to court documents. According to the US Department of Justice, a criminal complaint initiated the prosecution of Hushpuppi in February as court documents ordered unsealed showed that Abbas, a 37-year-old Nigerian national, pleaded guilty on April 20. A version of Abbas’ plea agreement filed late Tuesday outlines his role in the school-finance scheme, as well as several other cyber and business email compromise schemes that cumulatively caused more than $24million in losses. Officials said in court filings that Abbas disclosed during interrogation that he paid bribes t...
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EFCC Detains Former Nasarawa Governor, Wife
29Jul By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments
Corruption, News, Nigeria

EFCC Detains Former Nasarawa Governor, Wife

Former Nasarawa State Governor and serving senator, Tanko Al-Makura, and his wife, Mairo Al-Makura, have been detained by the Economic Crimes Commission (EFCC). Multiple sources at the headquarters of the commission told Daily Trust last night explained that the duo honoured the invitation extended to them by the commission. One of the sources said the couple were detained when the operatives of the anti-graft agency demanded some explanations from them about the finances of the state but they were unable to answer. The source said they were being grilled for misappropriation of funds. Read Also: Obi Cubana Spends Second Day With EFCC, Passport Seized Al-Makura governed Nasarawa between 2011 and 2019 before he was elected as the Senator representing Nasarawa South Senatorial...
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Kinsmen to Testify Against Ex-JAMB Boss Ojerinde in N5.2b Fraud Trial
26Jul By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments
Corruption, Education, News, Nigeria

Kinsmen to Testify Against Ex-JAMB Boss Ojerinde in N5.2b Fraud Trial

Two kinsmen of former Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Dibu Ojerinde, have agreed to testify for the prosecution in his trial for alleged N5.2 billion fraud. A former JAMB Accountant/Deputy Director (Account), Jimoh Olabisi Olatunde (described as Ojerinde’s kinsman and trusted confidante) and his personal lawyer, Peter Iyiola Oyewole (also described as his kinsman), are listed among the 11 witnessed slated to testify as prosecution witnesses in the case. Ojerinde, who is currently on bail, was said to have taken ill, a development that stalled the planned commencement of his trial last Thursday, although Olatunde and Oyewole were in court. The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) accused Ojerinde, in t...
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Nobody Can Accuse Me of Corruption – Buhari
1Jul By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments
Corruption, News, Nigeria

Nobody Can Accuse Me of Corruption – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has insisted that the current polarisation and inherent injustices in the country are neither fuelled by ethnicity nor religion, but Nigerians themselves. Buhari said this while receiving members of the Muhammadu Buhari/Osinbajo Dynamic Support Group recently at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. According to him, nobody can accuse him of corruption after serving as a governor, minister, head of state and currently a second-term President. His Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, made the full text of the President’s address to his guests available to journalists on Wednesday under the headline ‘Forget ethnicity, forget religion. We, the people, are the problem of Nigeria, says President Buhari’. The President again narrated his struggles...
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Former South African President Zuma Jailed for 15 Months
29Jun By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments
Corruption, Judiciary, Justice, News, South Africa

Former South African President Zuma Jailed for 15 Months

Ex-president of South Africa, Jacob Zuma has been sentenced to 15 months in jail after he was found guilty of contempt of court over his refusal to answer corruption charges. The ruling was delivered by South Africa’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday, citing contempt of court informed by his refusal to answer charges of corruption brought against him. Zuma was sentenced to 15 months in jail following his lack of willingness to appear before a graft panel. "The majority judgement orders an unsuspended sentence of imprisonment for a period," judge Sisi Khampepe said, adding that "the Constitutional Court can do nothing but conclude that Mr Zuma is guilty of the crime of contempt of court." Read Also: As An Introvert, I Shouldn’t Have Been In Politics –Jonathan Recall that Zuma ...
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Tinubu Is Under Investigation – EFCC Chairman, Bawa
21Jun By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments
Corruption, News, Nigeria

Tinubu Is Under Investigation – EFCC Chairman, Bawa

Abdulrasheed Bawa, the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has hinted that the Commission is currently investigating Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Bawa disclosed that the investigation would take time because it takes time. Speaking with ThisDay, the EFCC czar revealed that they have a request for Tinubu’s assets declaration form. According to Bawa: “You asked me a question earlier about arresting people before an investigation and now you are saying why didn’t we arrest Tinubu? Why didn’t you just say ‘arrest him’? See Also: EFCC: There Is Nothing To Hide, Your Drama is in Bad Taste – Anambra Govt “Investigation is ongoing. When you are investigating matters like this, they don’t end in a day. Thousands of i...
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President Buhari Solicits for Support of Appeal Court President to Combat Corruption
20Jun By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments
Corruption, Judiciary, News, Nigeria

President Buhari Solicits for Support of Appeal Court President to Combat Corruption

President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem, to support his administration to combat corruption in the country. This was contained in Buhari’s speech in Jos during the thanksgiving mass in honour of the Court of Appeal over her appointment last year. This was disclosed by the Director of Press and Public Affairs to Governor Simon Lalong, Makut Macham, in a statement in Jos on Saturday. The statement read, “President Muhammadu Buhari, governors of Plateau, Ekiti, Rivers, Oyo, Justices of various courts, senior legal luminaries and people from all sectors of the society today (June 19, 2021) converged on St. Monica’s Catholic Church, Rantiya, Jos for the thanksgiving mass in honour of the President, Court of Appeal, Justic...
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BREAKING: Court Clears Senator Nwaoboshi of N322m Fraud Charge
18Jun By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments
Corruption, Judiciary, News, Nigeria

BREAKING: Court Clears Senator Nwaoboshi of N322m Fraud Charge

A Federal High Court in Lagos has discharged Senator Peter Nwaoboshi of the N322million money laundering charge filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke held that the agency failed to prove the elements of the offences for which it charged the lawmaker. Nwaoboshi, a Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, represents Delta North in the upper chamber. The judge also discharged Nwaoboshi’s two firms – Golden Touch Construction Project Ltd and Suiming Electrical Ltd – on the same ground. The defendants were arraigned in 2018 before Justice Mohammed Idris who was later elevated to the Court of Appeal. They were then re-arraigned before Justice Aneke on October 5, 2018. In the two-count charge marked FHC/L/117C/18., the...
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Zamfara Govt Reopens State Varsity Closed Since 2019
14Jun By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments
Corruption, Education, News, Nigeria

Zamfara Govt Reopens State Varsity Closed Since 2019

The Management of the Zamfara State University Talata Mafara has announced the resumption of academic activities for the 2018/2019 session. The development follows an outburst over the closure of the school since 2018 after its establishment in 2017 by the governor Abdul’azizi Abubakar Yari administration. The varsity opened the admission window in 2018. A student who spoke to SaharaReporters on the state of the institution said the former governor crated the institution because Zamfara was the only Northern state without a state university at the time. He said students were enrolled in the 2018/2019 academic sessions taught by academic staff whose employment was contract-based and the students had taken the first-semester examination successfully in 2019 before a transition of po...
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