•Convicted former Ecuadorian President Abdalá Bucaram Ecuador’s judiciary sentenced former President Abdala Bucaram and his son Jacobo to nine years and four months in prison yesterday in a corruption case linked to the sale of medical supplies during the coronavirus pandemic. Bucaram, who was removed from office in 1997, heard the decision re...
•EFCC chairman, Ola Olukoyede The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday, disclosed that more than 40 of its personnel have been dismissed in the past two and a half years. The Commission revealed that they were sacked over their involvement in alleged corruption and financial malfeasance that could tarnish the image of the...
•Convicted former president Lenin Moreno An Ecuadorian court yesterday sentenced former president Lenin Moreno to five years in prison for accepting bribes from a Chinese company that built the country’s biggest hydroelectric dam. The prosecution said on X that Moreno, who governed from 2017 to 2021, was among 20 people convicted in the case i...
•Blackout Electricity sector experts have raised fresh concerns over persistent inefficiencies, weak governance, and entrenched corruption undermining Nigeria’s power industry, more than a decade after its privatisation. Speaking on the state of the sector, President of the Nigeria Consumer Protection Network, Kunle Kola Olubiyo, said the i...
•Nasir El-Rufai arrives at the State High Court, today The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arraigned the former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, before a state high court over multiple corruption-related allegation. The case comes barely three days after the former governor buried his late m...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has secured the backing of the federal government to investigate vice chancellors of public universities accused of corruption and mismanagement of Tertiary Education Trust Fund allocations. ASUU raised concerns over the weak supervision of vice chancellors in implementing TETFund projects, noting that ...
The Jigawa Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has approved the compulsory retirement of a Shar’a Court Judge, Sadisu Muhammad-Haruna over alleged misconduct. This is contained in a statement by JSC’s Director of Protocol and Publicity, Mr Abba Wangara, in Dutse, today. The Commission also approved the promotion of over 80 staff members across v...
•Pastor Bakare The Serving Overseer of Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has urged urgent personal and structural reforms within Nigeria’s justice system, warning that entrenched corruption among legal practitioners and judges continues to hold the nation captive. The cleric, who is also a legal practitioner, described th...
•Tinubu and Nigeran people Some aggrieved Nigerians have appealed to the Tinubu-led federal government to “retrace its locus immediately, as lies, deceit, corruption, can’t improve citizens’ welfare”. The respondents shared their minds, yesterday, when our correspondent sampled their views on some current happenings in the country, reports Van...
•Ola Olukoyede The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ola Olukoyede, has said corruption is masking God’s abundant blessings on Nigeria and continues to hold the country back from attaining its full potential. Olukoyede made the remarks in Abuja yesterday in his Christmas message to Nigerians, where he urged citizens to ...
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