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Detectives in Nigeria for Ex-minister Alison-Madueke’s case

As part of the ongoing probe and preparation for the arraignment of a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, some investigators from the United Kingdom have visited Nigeria to gather evidence. According to The Nation, The ex-minister is under investigation over the missing $20billion oil cash, phoney crude oil lifting contracts, $115million poll […]

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2015 Campaign Fund: EFCC arraigns fresh 11 INEC staff over N120m

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday said it has interrogated 11 employees of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over N120million poll bribery sum allegedly received from some politicians during the 2015 general election,  The Nation report. The affected staff, who were electoral officers in charge of the 11 local government areas of […]

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Alleged Debt: Court order Diezani’s associates’ assets freeze

A Federal High Court in Lagos has granted the Federal Government injunctions freezing assets and funds in and outside the country traced to two Nigerian businessmen, Kola Aluko and Jide Omokore, as well as their companies – Atlantic Energy Drilling Concepts Nigeria Limited (AEDC), Atlantic Energy Brass Development Limited (AEBD). According to The Nation, Omokore […]

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Stolen Funds: Diezani, Ibori, Dariye, 57 other Nigerians may lose UK assets

Fresh facts emerged yesterday that more than 60 top Nigerians may lose assets and cash laundered in the United Kingdom. Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC) may soon submit a list of those convicted, under probe, the fleeing suspects and those watch-listed to the relevant agencies in the UK. According to The Nation, The UK […]

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$115m Bribe: EFCC grills Imoke, detains Edo gov aspirant

Former Cross River State Governor Liyel Imoke was on Wednesday quizzed over the N23.29billion election bribe scandal. Others interrogated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) are former Minister of Mines and Steel Musa Muhammad Sada; former Minister of State for Agriculture Asabe Asmau Ahmed; former Edo State Deputy Governor Lucky Imasuen and former Secretary to […]

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16 INEC officials invovle in $115m Bribe to face probing

Some Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officials have been summoned to the agency’s Abuja headquarters in connection with the alleged N23.29billion bribe the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is probing. According to The Nation, The EFCC has quizzed 16 top INEC officials, including 10 directors, over the scandal. Those invited are two Resident Electoral Commissioners […]

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Why I leaked Sanusi’s $49bn oil theft letter – Rotimi Amaechi

The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, says he divulged a letter which a former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor and now Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi, wrote to former President Goodluck Jonathan on oil revenue theft in order to check corruption. Amaechi said the claim that he ‘clandestinely’ leaked the letter was not true. […]

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Diezani was untouchable under Jonathan administration, Says Sanusi

[T]he Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi 11, said that nobody that had a confrontation with the former Minister Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, during the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, survived such an effrontery. This, Sanusi said, was because the former minister was one of the most powerful ministers under Jonathan, Punchng report. He […]

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$115m Bribe: Fidelity Bank appoints new Acting MD

Fidelity Bank Plc yesterday appointed an Acting Managing Director, Alhaji Mohammed Lawal Balarabe in place of its troubled Chief Executive Officer, Nnamdi Okonkwo. The bank’s Board of Directors which approved the appointment, said the development followed the absence of the substantive Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer. While announcing Balarabe, who prior to the appointment was the […]

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$115m Bribe: EFCC arrests oil baron

In a continuation of the probe into how the Peoples Democratic Party allegedly bribed some officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission before the 2015 presidential election, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested an oil tycoon, Mr. Laitan Adesanya, for his alleged role in the $115m (N23bn) bribe funds. It was learnt on […]

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2015 Campaign Fund: EFCC to forward evidence showing Diezani involvement to UK NCA

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has decided to send evidence linking former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, to the $115million (N23, 299,705,000billion) poll bribe to the National Crime Agency (NCA) in the UK. The commission also yesterday grilled and detained an oil chief, Leno Olaitan Adesanya, in connection with the ongoing […]

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EFCC begins manhunt for Diezani’s son

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has launched a manhunt for Ugonna, son to the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke. This is in connection with the alleged disbursement of money to INEC officials and election monitors in the build-up to the presidential election, Punchng report. According to sources at the EFCC, Ugonna is the […]

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