INDICATIONS on Tuesday was that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s interrogation of a former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu (retd.), had reached a dead end. It was learnt, Punchng reported that the commission had asked Amosu and others, who are still being detained over the $2.1bn arms deal, to refund some […]
Read More
FORMER Minister Musiliu Obanikoro yesterday sought to rubbish media reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) traced N4.7billion believed to be from the $2.1billion slush funds from the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) to the account of a company in which his two sons –Gbolahan and Babajide – are directors. The […]
Read More
FORMER Ambassador and Deputy Representative of Nigeria at the United Nations, Chief Oladapo Fafowora, has called on the Federal Government to take its anti-corruption war to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and the Central Bank of Nigeria. Fafowora stated this at the 11th annual Adekunle Kukoyi Memorial Lecture organised by the Lagos State Branch of […]
Read More
A Federal High Court in Abuja heard on Tuesday how the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) paid N1.4billion to 78 firms including Destral Investment Limited owned by the spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh, non-existing contracts. The information is contained in a document – an electronic mandate – tendered before […]
Read More
PROPERTY said to belong to former National Security Adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki was at the weekend confiscated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Kaduna. Dasuki, NSA to former President Goodluck Jonathan, is at the centre of a massive investigation into the alleged misapplication of about $2.1 billion meant for the procurement of […]
Read More
NATIONAL Chairman of Social Democratic Party, SDP, Chief Olu Falae, yesterday, said he has fixed next week to adequately address his alleged involvement in the ongoing arms deal scandal involving the former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd). This came as he insisted that the alleged N100 million linking with with the former […]
Read More FOLLOWING his continued detention by the Department of State Security, DSS, erstwhile National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Mohammed Sambo Dasuki (retd), has dragged the Federal Government before the ECOWAS Court in Abuja. Dasuki is seeking the court’s order for his release while also demanding payment of N500 million damages for alleged infringement on his human […]
Read More JUSTICE Adeniyi Ademola of a Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday ordered the Federal Government to produce the immediate past National Security Adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki (retd), in court on February 16. The judge made the order with respect to the charges of money laundering and illegal possession of firearms preferred against Dasuki by […]
Read More
NATIONAL leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has called on former President Goodluck Jonathan to speak out on the controversial $2.1bn meant for the purchase of arms to fight Boko Haram insurgency during his tenure but which was allegedly shared by some influential politicians. according to Punch, Jonathan, who was the presidential candidate of the […]
Read More The Democratic Peoples Congress (DPC) has said it is shell-shocked by the revelation and confession of some public office-holders and their political associates that they received billions of naira from the $2.1bn appropriated for arms procurement under the Goodluck Jonathan administration. The party said it was amazed that the fund meant to support the fight […]
Read More
Lagos lawyer Femi Falana (SAN) has asked the Federal Government to obey the court order granting bail to former National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki and leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mr. Nnamdi Kanu. In a statement, entitled: “The orders for the bail of Dasuki and Kanu should be obeyed”, Falana […]
Read More
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption crusade has been described as a war between the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress and the major opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party. In a statement issued on Saturday by its National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, the PDP claimed that President Buhari and the APC were using ongoing fight against corruption to […]
Read More
