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Controversy trailing largesse of Ikoyi flat’s whistle-blower discouraging—Survey

…However, Minister assures payment this month The controversy trailing the delay in settling the whistleblower that provided intelligence for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to swoop on the Osborne Towers in Ikoyi, Lagos on April 7, 2017 is…

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NITDA ambushes MDAs on IT projects, seals partnership deal with EFCC

Barely 48 hours after it read the riot act to all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), on the illegality of embarking on IT projects without recourse to it, the leadership of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has played…

Fresh insight on why Alison-Madueke ran away since this administration emerges

Contrary to earlier speculations that the former Minister of petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke had left the country immediately President Muhammadu won the 2015 presidential election on health ground, indications have emerged that her escape was in response to the…

Barely one month after, another Court orders final forfeiture of Diezani’s N7.6bn loot

If anybody is making the news in the last one month in terms of forfeiture of looted or proceeds of criminal transactions, it is former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke. On Monday, a Federal High Court, again, ordered…

Bandits hit EFCC headquarters in Abuja, drop death note for investigator

Around the early hours of Wednesday, precisely 5.00AM, yet to be identified armed gunmen arrived the narrow street hosting the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), office on Wuse Zone 7, Abuja. The heavily armed bandits who…

EFCC recovers N553m stolen funds from S’East politicians in 7 months

In continuation of ongoing review of regional performances by geo-political zones, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), South East zone stationed at Enugu, on Tuesday, revealed that it recovered N553.77million from corrupt politicians in the South East in the…

EFCC may change direction to CCB against Diezani over asset declaration

An indication is emerging that instead of approaching a Federal High Court in the pursuit of alleged looted funds and assets by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), against the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Madueke, it…

EFCC recovers N328bn from 9 oil marketers’, expects more from diversions

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), working on a petition from petition against the leadership of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and its subsidiary, the Pipelines and Product Marketing Company (PPMC), has recovered N328bn from Forte Oil, Oando,…

Diezani’s Banana Island’s house, funds may go the way of NIA’s Ikoyi billions if…

Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has up till August 7, 2017, to show up at the Lagos federal High Court to lay claims to listed properties and funds of about $2,740,197.96 and N84,537,840.70, said to be part…

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NITDA runs to EFCC, reveals how MDAs siphon budgets using IT procurement

The digital watchdogs of the federal government, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has opened up on how MDAs were able to use the procurement of the IT products and services to perpetuate fraud because most of the projects passed…