•Sadiya Farouq and Betta Edu The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday seized the travel documents of suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation Dr. Betta Edu and her predecessor Hajiya Sadiya Umar-Farouq. The anti-graft agency also impounded the international passport of the suspended National Coord...
•Education minister, Prof. Tahir Mamman The federal government has set up a committee to investigate the activities of private universities established in the last 15 years. The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman who spoke during the inauguration of the inter-ministerial committee on degree mills in the country, today, said this would s...
The probe instituted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) into the use of foreign exchange by some companies and financial institutions under the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele is to be spread to at least 20 banks, sources close to the commission have said. This paper was […]
•Betta Edu and Tinubu President Bola Tinubu has ordered a thorough probe of the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation led by Betta Edu. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, made this known in a statement yesterday. Controversy had enveloped Edu’s alleged involvement in the approval of N585,19...
•Beta Edu Anger over the memo issued by the Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, instructing the Accountant-General of the Federation, Dr Oluwatoyin Madein, to pay N585m into the private bank account of a project accountant in her ministry, Bridget Oniyelu, spiked yesterday, with the opposition parties calli...
•Sadiya Umar-Farouq Former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, must appear at the Abuja headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for interrogation, the agency has said. The ex-minister, who cited health challenges, approached the anti-graft agency through ...
•Buhari Sadiya Umar-Farouk, the former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, is expected to be interrogated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) about an alleged N37.1 billion fraud. A top EFCC source confirmed this to our correspondent in a telephone conversation today, Wednesday, Jan...
•Late Mohbad The Lagos State Police Command has said it will not do guesswork in the investigation of the death of singer Ilerioluwa Aloba popularly known as Mohbad. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, in an interview with our correspondent yesterday, reiterated that the command had not received the report of the auto...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate has announced plans to launch a full investigation into the Military Pensions Board after it resumes from recess. The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation, Olamilekan Adeola, made the announcement today during the defence of the budget report by the Senate Committee on Establishment and Public Service, ...
•Captain Musa Nuhu The Presidency yesterday said the suspended Director-General of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Capt. Musa Shuaibu Nuhu, will be probed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Earlier, President Bola Tinubu suspended Nuhu as the head of the NCAA, replacing him with Capt. Chris Najomo. Presidentia...
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