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Fidelity Bank defends $115m transaction involving Mrs. Diezani

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Fidelity Bank Plc yesterday defended the $115 million transaction involving former Petroleum Resources Minister Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, saying it complied with the extant regulations on suspicious transactions reporting. According to The Nation, Financial institutions are required by the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Regulations, 2013 (as amended) to forward their AML/CFT Compliance […]

2015 Campaign Fund: INEC chiefs got Diezani’s N23.3b for poll

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There seems to be more trouble for embattled former Petroleum Resources Minister Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is probing her involvement in a $115m (N23, 299,705,000billion) 2015 election bribery scandal. The anti-graft agency has detained two bankers in connection with the scandal. The agency has launched a manhunt for Ugonna […]

EFCC seizes £2m wristwatches from Diezani, Omokore’s wife

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has seized jewelries including wristwatches worth over £2 million from former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke and wife of Mr. Jide Omokore, the Chairman of Atlantic Energy Drilling Concepts Nigeria Limited. A top official in EFCC said the commission seized a wristwatch worth £1.4m from Omokore’s wife, […]

Arms Deal: Nigeria Anti Graft agency says $15bn, not $2.1bn was stolen

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has uncovered $12.9billion more arms deals fraud during the administration of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, it was learnt yesterday. According to The Nation, The development has brought arms funds, which were diverted to other uses, to $15billion as the initial probe covered only $2.1billion. As part of the ongoing […]

Two of the present minister fly private jet used by former minister: Craft flown to CBN gov’s mother’s burial

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[su_dropcap]T[/su_dropcap]op-rated Canadian-made private jets chartered regularly by the immediate past Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, are now being flown by the new Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, and the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, investigations by Punchng showed. The development brings to question the new administration’s criticism […]

EFCC remand Secondus over alleged vehicle scandal

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday detained the Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, for allegedly receiving 23 choice vehicles from a business associate of ex-Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke. He was also grilled for about eight hours on the curious gifts. Secondus’s detention […]

Crude Swap: House Representatives summon Alison-Madueke

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THE House Representatives Committee on Crude Oil Swap yesterday invited the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Alison-Madueke to appear before it to “make clarifications” in the crude oil swap arrangement in which Nigeria lost billions of naira. In a February 22 letter by the chairman Zakari Mohammed, the former minister is to appear next […]

EFCC seizes Diezani’s husband’s passport

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ECONOMIC and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday grilled Rear Admiral Amaechina Alison-Madueke, husband of the embattled former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke. The anti-graft agency seized his travel passport to restrict his movement to Nigeria, pending the conclusion of its investigation. About two other ‘business associates’ of the ex-Minister were also said to […]

‘Fmr NNPC Director; Diezani approved $24bn crude swap without contract’

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A former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mr. Austin Oniwon, confirmed on Tuesday that there was no formal contract between the NNPC and trading companies that lifted $24bn worth of crude oil from the country between 2011 and 2014. Oniwon told the House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee on Crude Oil […]

Pres. Buhari terminates Alison-Madueke $1.3bn controversial oil contracts

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PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has terminated of $1.3 billion contracts and restructuring of the controversial strategic alliance agreements held with Atlantic Energy signed by former minister of petroleum resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke. Erstwhile Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Lamido Sanusi, had alleged that the Atlantic’s deals issued by Alison-Madueke, who was briefly arrested in London last […]

Jonathan, Alison-Madueke named in Abuja land grab

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The Senate is exploring ways and means of invoking sanctions against former President Goodluck Jonathan and some former ministers for allegedly appropriating reserved plots of land in Abuja. According to the Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), the plots acquired by Jonathan and his ministers were designated as green areas, flood drains, city […]