Tag: corruption
China Unveils New Leader
With a revolutionary hero for a father and a pop star for a wife, China’s new leader Xi Jinping has…
Kogi Elders Petition Jonathan on state of affairs
Oluokun Ayorinde/Abuja Bureau Chief A group of respected elders and political leaders from Kogi State have cried out to President…
Corruption: Pastors, Religious Leaders Should Go To Jail —Bakare
The convener of Save Nigeria Group, SNG, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has accused some pastors and religious leaders of aiding and…
The Plot Against Ribadu’s Report
Powerful aides of President Goodluck Jonathan singed by the report of the Petroleum Revenue Task Force which exposes mismanagement and…
Corruption: Guinea’s whistle blower killed
Gunmen have shot dead the head of Guinea’s public treasury, who had recently uncovered a plot to embezzle state funds,…
Forgotten Cases Of Looting
High profile corruption cases filed over five years ago are still at plea stages, even as the accused persons have…
Corrupt Italy set to tighten laws
Italy, ranked 69th on the Transparency corruption index and with a reputation as bad as Nigeria’s, is set to clean…
Crime Fighters In A ‘Tithe’ Corner
By Isaac Asabor It is not an exaggeration to say that corruption has remained the major problem that is literally…
Nigeria’s corruption outrageous, says US author Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama, author of the world acclaimed book “The End of History and the Last Man,” has described as ”outrageous”…
The Failure Of A State
BY YUNUSA KEHINDE SALAMI The prevalence of poverty, corruption, and general insecurity of life and property will naturally lead a…
Corruption scandal at Nigeria Ports
NIGERIA – Once again one senses that internal squabbles for power are more important than service to the customer as…
Nobel laureate slams Liberian leader over corruption
Leymah Gbowee, the social worker who won last year’s Nobel Peace Prize with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, on Monday…
Morocco magistrates strike over corruption
Rabat (AFP) Hundreds of Moroccan magistrates held a sit-in on Saturday outside the Court of Cassation in Rabat demanding an…
Senate Seeks more power for Auditor-General
Desmond Utomwen/Abuja A Bill for the establishment of the Office of the Auditor-General for the federation, Audit service Commission, Additional…
EFCC Dissociates Self From Report
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, says it has dissociated itself from a report entitled, Corruption; Why the EFCC Lost Steam, which…
Weak EFCC And Endemic Corruption
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, seems to have lost steam and revelations by an insider that there is…
Corruption: Why the EFCC lost steam
Simon Ateba The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has accused the President Goodluck Jonathan administration of being unwilling to…
Nigerian banks sabotaging anti-corruption war, says EFCC chief
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, has decried some unethical practices in the banking…
Lawmaker Suggests Way To Fight Corruption
A member of the Anti-Corruption Committee at the House of Representatives, Dr. Samuel Adejare, has prescribed the Chinese method of…
‘Meritocracy Still Pays’
With the education sector in gradual decadence, not many Nigerians believe that students can gain admission into the tertiary institution…
Corruption Will Kill Nigeria
Retired Justice Mustapha Akanbi, former President, Appeal Court and a past chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, will be 80 on…
Corruption: Buhari, IBB Wash Dirty Linen In Public
A war of words is brewing between former Heads of State, Muhammadu Buhari and Ibrahim Babangida, over who ran the…
Students Chide Govt On Corruption
The Director of Programmes, National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS), Taiwo Olalekan James, has blamed the Federal Government for the…
We’ll Prosecute Saraki
The Commissioner of Police, Special Fraud Unit(SFU), Ikoyi, Lagos, Ayotunde Ogunsakin, has vowed to deal ruthlessly with fraudsters in his…
Like Nigeria, corruption China’s biggest threat
Like Nigeria, where a mind-blowing $400 billion has been stolen in five decades by corrupt officials, China is also grappling…
Cynthia: Shock, Outrage Over Murder
Nigerians, in their hundreds, have strongly condemned the murder of Miss Cynthia Osokogu, daughter of Major-General Frank Osokogu (retd). She…
A Pastor’s Dream Of A New Nigeria
My Dream For A New Nigeria, a book by a clergyman, explores the socio-economic problems militating against Nigeria’s match to…
An Open Letter To Pastor E.A. Adeboye (a.k.a. Daddy G.O.)
Dear Daddy, The Lagos-Ibadan expressway is the social responsibility of the Redeem Christian Church of God by default. It is…
Sacked Sergeant Seeks Justice, Writes IGP Abubakar
Sergeant Amos Olaniyan of the Nigeria Police Force, Abigi Division, Ogun State and three others were verbally dismissed 17 years…
NUC Tasks Varsities On Corruption
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has called on the management of Nigerian universities to uphold the sanctity of the education…