Maina’s illness stalls alleged fraud trial

Trial of former Chairman, Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, charged with 12 counts bordering on “money laundering, operating fictitious bank accounts and fraud,” was stalled on Tuesday due to his ill health. He was, on October 25, arraigned alongside a firm, Common Input Property and Investment Limited, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission […]

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Anti-graft war yet to be won – Government

Secretary to the Federal Government, Boss Mustapha, Chairman of Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), and others on Tuesday said corruption had not ended despite the President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s efforts to stamp out the scourge. Speaking at an event in Abuja, the stakeholders highlighted steps that need to be taken to […]

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Nigerian judiciary cries for rescue from corruption – Senate panel

• ‘Africa loses $50b to corruption yearly’• Presidency, Sani differ on border closure Nigeria’s judiciary has fallen so low that not even saints may salvage it, according to a Senate panel. The panel lamented that the judiciary came to this sorry pass with the attendant high level of corruption because of a paucity of funds. […]

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Osinbajo relegated in Buhari’s government- Afenifere

The fact that the President’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, now travels to faraway London to present memos and bills to President Muhammadu Buhari shows that Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo is practically out of Buhari’s government. This is the position of Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, which said on Tuesday through its spokesman, Mr Yinka Odumakin, that […]

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