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A federal judge has Jailed former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of corruption and money laundering and sentenced him to nine and a half years in jail. Silva will remain free while an appeal is heard. Silva was accused of receiving a beachfront apartment as a kickback from construction...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has uncovered fresh evidence against one Esther Oba, an alleged front and cousin of Dame Patience Jonathan, the wife of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Punch reports. Oba, whom the EFCC has put on its watch list, according to PUNCH allegedly...

The arraignment of suspended Federal High Court justice, Adeniyi Ademola and his wife Olubowale, the Head of Service of Lagos State over charges bordering on gratification has been stalled. The Ademolas were scheduled for arraignment today before Justice Jude Okeke of an FCT High Court sitting...

The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has stated that there is corruption in every institution of government, including the anti-graft agency. He made the remark when he paid a visit to the Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai at his office in...

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo's words at the First Akintola Williams Annual Lecture has caused disarray between him and the lower chamber of the National Assembly. Obasanjo in his lecture titled: “Nigeria Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Governance and Accountability”,described the...

House of Representatives of Thursday hit back at former President Olusegun Obasanjo, saying he is the grandfather of corruption in Nigeria. Recall that while delivering his keynote at the First Akintola Williams Annual Lecture, Obasanjo lashed at the Buhari administration for repeatedly lumping...

Fresh facts emerged on Monday that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) may soon bring prominent Nigerians implicated in the $180m Halliburton bribe to justice. According to The Nation, about four former Heads of State, two ex-First ladies and 87 prominent Nigerians were...

Operatives of the EFCC have arrested Ibanga Ime Akpabio, cousin to the former Akwa Ibom Governor, Godswill Akpabio for his involvement in a N10, 000,000.00 ( Ten Million Naira) oil scam. He was arrested in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Akpabio's arrest was occasioned by an allegation that he...

A former presidential spokesman, Reuben Abati, is still in custody because he is unable to satisfy his bail conditions, Premium Times gathered. Mr. Abati, a columnist, was arrested on Monday by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on allegations of financial impropriety to...

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has said that former Minister of State for Defence, Mr. Musiliu Obanikoro’s allegations of giving him money to fund his 2014 gubernatorial election is not true. Fayose in an interview with DailySun said “May be, my brother and friend, Obanikoro is looking...

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC to investigate any Nigerian, no matter how highly-placed. Mr. Ibrahim Magu, Chairman of the EFCC has also set up the commission's game by inviting and interrogating alleged corrupt officials though no...

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC to investigate any Nigerian, no matter how highly-placed. The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, Ibrahim Magu, said this on Tuesday when he paid a courtesy visit to the...

The spokesperson of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, has denied claims that former Minister of Aviation and spokesperson to former President Goodkuck Jonathan’s campaign Organisation, Femi Fani- Kayode, slumped at their premises On Monday. Mr. Jude...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has explained how his administration fought corruption in the country without making noise about it. Jonathan's comment may be a tutorial to President Muhammadu Buhari's noisy anti corruption campaign which many Nigerian believe is one-sided. Mr. Jonathan...

President Muhammadu Buhari may be moving his anti-corruption war to Nigerian Universities as he has sent a caution note to Vice Chancellors of Federal Government owned universities against reckless spending of resources. The President said any university fund that is not spent mainly on the...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has re-arrested the former Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode. Mr. Fani-Kayode was on Friday arrested by operatives of the anti-graft body, as he left the Federal High Court premises in Lagos. Prior to Friday arrest, Fani-Kayode had...

The Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, PACAC revealed that N1.3trillion was stolen from the nation’s treasury under the immediate past administration of former president Goodluck Jonathan. Presenting the report of its activity from August to July to civil society organisations...

Two Supreme Court Justices, Justice Sylvester Ngwuta and Justice Iyang Okoro have accused the honorable Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Chibueke Amaechi for alleged trying to using them to pervert justice in governorship election disputes involving Ekiti, Rivers and Ebonyi states. Justice...

Minister of Transportation Chibuike Amaechi described the latest allegation by Justice Sylvester Ngwuta as a lie and part of a “heavily-funded plot” to bring him down. The minister, a former Rivers State governor, in a statement by his media office, said: “Justice Ngwuta’s allegation as it...