Tag: corruption
Fayose wants court to strike out EFCC charge
Former governor of the western Nigerian state of Ekiti, Ayo Fayose on Wednesday urged the Federal High Court in Ado…
Cash-Gate: Malawi president sacks cabinet
Malawi President Joyce Banda on Thursday dissolved her entire 25-member cabinet in a move a presidential source said was in…
Ex-Detroit mayor jailed 28 years for corruption
Disgraced Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced to 28 years in a federal prison on corruption and extortion charges. The…
ICPC Seizes 100 Houses In Abuja
The Independent Corrupt Practises and Allied Offences Commission (ICPC) said on Wednesday that it had seized more than 100 houses…
Nigeria At 53
After 53 years of independence, Africa’s most populous country and the second biggest economy has remained a failed state. With…
Lagos Vows To Weed Out Bad Eggs From KAI
The Lagos State Government has vowed to weed out corrupt officials from the Kick Against Indiscipline, KAI, Brigade. This follows…
Jonathan, Nigerians And Corruption
On Tuesday at the 54th annual conference of the Nigerian Economic Society in Abuja, President Goodluck Jonathan scored a point,…
UK court sees video of Ibori’s palatial home in Abuja
The confiscation hearing of the assets of former Nigerian governor, James Onanefe Ibori continued in London today, with the court…
Jonathan Has Failed —Mrs Fawehinmi
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has failed Nigeria and should be defeated in 2015, and his wife, Patience, has made things…
Let’s Immortalise Yar’Adua
By Odunayo Joseph Many readers would wonder what the topic of this write up is all about and what to…
Police will flush out bad eggs, says IGP Abubakar
Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, Muhammed Abubakar, on Thursday vowed to flush out bad eggs in the Nigeria Police Force (NPF),…
Corruption can trigger mass protest, Braithwaite warns
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Lagos based lawyer and politician, Dr. Tunji Braithwaite has declared that except corruption is dethroned before Nigeria’s…
Nigeria Rated 8th Most Corrupt Nation
Anti-corruption nonprofit Transparency International, TI, has released its 2013 Global Corruption Barometer, which surveyed residents in 107 countries, ranking Nigeria,…
Corruption: Let’s ‘Work The Talk’, SAN Advises Judiciary
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr Joe Gadzama, has called on the judiciary to evolve practical ways to tackle…
Court Frees Former Works Minister
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday discharged and acquitted former Nigerian Works Minister, Hassan Lawal and a…
Nigerian Police And Arbitrary Charge
By Apata Akinsemoyin Mukaila Fellow Nigerians, whether we like to admit it or not, we have a group of untrained…
Ribadu: Why corruption persists in Nigeria
The former chairman of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu has attributed the persistence of corruption…
Jonathan Orders Sack Of Corrupt Civil Servants
President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday directed the Head of Service of the Federation to provide immediate solutions to corruption and…
Is Police Truly Your Friend?
The catch phrase, “Police Is Your Friend” has proved to be an abhorrent paradox against the character deficit of the…
CAN Is Corrupt
Primate Babatunde Elijah Ayodele, founder, INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Lagos, explains to FOLARIN ADEMOSU why his prophecies have been misconstrued…
US seizes Alamieyeseigha’s $700k home
The Maryland, United States home of former Bayelsa state governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha has been forfeited to the US government following…
Justice Mariam Aloma Mukhtar Needs Support
There is no doubt that corruption and ineptitude have permeated all facets of our national life, the judiciary inclusive. This…
David-West: Nigerian Churches Stink With Corruption
Former Minister of Petroleum, Professor Tam David-West, has landed a hard knock on church leaders in Nigeria, saying they reek…
Nigeria: Just Before The Armageddon
By Emmanuel Arodovwe The scriptures describe the Armageddon as the site of a battle during the end times. It is…
Corruption: 157 LASTMA Officers Dismissed
The Lagos State Government has sacked 157 officers of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA over cases of gross…
Ruing Corruption
Nigeria which should have been the pride of the black race has now become a pariah nation due to endemic…
Nigeria: a lesson on corruption from Indonesia
.An Indonesian governor surrenders a guitar given to him as a gift by US rock band Metallica Indonesia and Nigeria…
Onayekan, Kukah highlight Nigeria’s twin monsters
Two of Nigeria’s leading and respected bishops have told the European Parliament and other politicians that their country is being…
Dozens arrested in Croatian university bribe case
Police on Friday arrested 39 people in connection with an extensive bribery case at a Croatian university where students are…
Let’s Blame Corruption, Greed And Impunity
By Odunayo Joseph There is no doubt that the ossified profligacy and the reckless urge for sharing rather than baking…