A second round of investigation into the $2.1billion arms deals is to be commenced by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) tomorrow, The Nation report. Top of the probe agenda is how the Jonathan Administration spent €3,654,121million to purchase security vehicles for the Republic of Niger in October 2013 and April 2014. The cash was withdrawn […]
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has challenged Governor Ayo Fayose to say how much he got from the N1.4 billion allegedly collected from the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) by a former minister for the June 21, 2014 governorship poll. The APC claimed that part of the slush funds was […]
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Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) national vice chairmen have dissociated themselves from some prominent members indicted in the $2.1 billion arms deal scandal perpetrated under the President Goodluck Jonathan administration. The party chiefs also expressed support for President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption war. A number of PDP chieftains, including former Sokoto State Governor Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa and […]
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Former National Security Adviser (NSA) Sambo Dasuki’s health is bad, his wife has said, pleading for his freedom. Mrs Dasuki created a scene at the headquarters of the Department of State Security Service (DSS) on Tuesday night when she begged top officials of the agency not to allow her husband die in custody. She and […]
Read More The former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd), who is standing trial for alleged diversion of funds before two different Abuja High Courts and who released from prisons along five others having perfected their bail condition has been re-arrested by officials the Department of State Security (DSS), after being released from the Kuje Prisons […]
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The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, said on Tuesday that his office would not tolerate any act of “compromise” in the form of plea bargain for suspects whose corrupt acts had heightened insurgency in the country. Malami, who described as tormenting the alleged diversion of funds meant for […]
Read More How much of the $2.1 billion arms purchase cash went into the Ekiti and Osun states governorship elections? What role did a former minister play in the alleged diversion of the funds? These are some of the questions the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is battling to answer in its probe of the phoney […]
Read More All is set for the commencement of the trial of a former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Dr. Haliru Bello Mohammed and his son, Abbah for alleged corruption by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday, the nation report. Operatives of the anti-graft agency yesterday arrested Abbah ahead of his […]
Read More The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission may write former President Goodluck Jonathan in connection with its ongoing investigation into arms procurement scam, The PUNCH has learnt. It was gathered that the commission was planning to write the former President because his name had consistently featured in the interrogation of some suspects. A former National Security […]
Read More The immediate past National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), was on Tuesday accused by the EFCC (Economic and Financial Crimes Commission) of compromising the security of the nation and committing economic sabotage through his alleged diversion of over N32bn meant for the purchase of arms to fight terrorists in the North -East. The commission, […]
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A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday granted bail to a businessman and founder of Daar Communications Plc, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, in the sum of N200m with two sureties in like sum. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on December 11 arraigned Dokpesi along with his firm, Daar Investment and Holdings Ltd., on six […]
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