The recent Brookings rating of Nigeria as the country with the world’s highest population of poor people was not just a confirmation of what many have always...
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Would you agree that the Fulani herdsmen should be classified as a terrorist group considering their killings and destruction? I do not buy the idea of calling...
Unnecessary controversies and hushed up recriminations have followed statement credited to the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, Co-founder of...
Chairman and Head of Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL), Mr. Debo Adeniran has stated that Coalition for Nigeria Movement founded by former...
IN a move that seems to defy logic, the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, has reportedly gone to court to stop the ongoing parliamentary...
The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, has said a total of N421.33m is ready to be paid to whistle-blowers for the November batch. She said the amount...
Yakubu Galadima, the lawyer for the whistle-blower, who informed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission of the $43m, N23.2m and £27,800 (N13bn) recovered...
The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), says the Federal Government does not want the whistle-blower who...
The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, on Sunday said that the whistle-blower who informed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission of the N13bn...
CONFRONTED with sharply declining revenues, hefty budget deficits and barren buffers, Nigeria’s slow trot into a new external debt trap has progressed into a...
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday adjourned until Oct. 20, the trial of a former military Commander, Maj.-Gen. Emmanuel Atewe, and three others...
Justice Babatunde Quadri of Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday adjourned trial of former Lamido is being prosecuted alongside his two sons, Aminu and...
Detained immediate-past National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), on Tuesday asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to suspend and adjourn...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday lamented that despite the various interventions by the Federal Government, there were still complaints and agitations by...
Elected on an anti-corruption platform, President Muhammadu Buhari’s frequent missteps are hobbling his own pet agenda. Fresh confirmation of this came at the...
The United States’ latest report on the state of the anti-terror war in Nigeria bears a strikingly true reflection of the current situation in the country...
Mrs. Abimbola Akeredolu, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, is a former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Ogun State, the first female to hold the...
Nigeria is a cruel place to live in, a minefield for both adults and minors. Some minors, who were released from the Badagry Prisons, Lagos, on August 1, have...
The National Coordinator of Kwara Mass Movement (a socio-cultural, non-political group in Kwara), Mr Salmon Jawondo, on Thursday asked the Senate President...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission will, in the next two weeks, release a report on the state governments’ spending of the...
The Senate on Wednesday passed the Whistle-Blowers Protection Bill, which recommends a five-year jail term or N10m fine against persons who raise false alarm...
A Kaduna State High Court, on Thursday, remanded a whistle-blower, Abubakar Sani-Chindo, in prison for allegedly providing false information that led to the...
The trial of a former Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh, was stalled on Monday, due to the ill health of the 19th prosecution witness. Justice Okon Abang...
An investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Tosin Owobo, narrated on Wednesday how the anti-graft agency discovered a multi-million...
A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, pleaded on Wednesday that his alleged N4.9bn fraud case should be transferred from Lagos to Abuja. The...
One of the judges recently recalled from suspension by the National Judicial Council will be charged this week with offences bordering on receiving...
Rights advocacy group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, has sued the Federal Government over the failure to provide prepaid electricity meters...
The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, has been named the Vice-Chairman of the Heads of Anti-Corruption...
The Senate on Thursday passed the Witness Protection Programme Establishment Bill sponsored by the late Senator Isiaka Adeleke (Osun-West), who died on April...
The Senate has passed a bill to protect whistleblowers and witnesses directly involved in the prosecution of certain criminal cases. The bill, titled Witness...
The Federal Ministry of Finance on Wednesday confirmed the release of N375.8m to the first batch of 20 providers of information under the whistle-blower policy...
A coalition of civil society/anti-corruption groups based in Lagos have given the federal government a 48-hour ultimatum to cancel or reverse the planned...
A coalition of 20 civil society and anti-corruption groups has issued the Federal Government 48 hours to cancel the planned concession of the Port-Harcourt...
Gentlemen of the press, PRELIMINARY COMMENTS: We are gathered here today because of our grave concern that, if care is not taken, this government is about to...
The report of a ministerial probe committee on the investigation of petitions against the management of Yaba College of Technology, Lagos has blamed the...
As the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari clocks two years on May 29, 2017, investigation by Nigerian NewsDirect revealed that business communities...
Regional bodies, the Peoples Democratic Party, civil rights groups and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria among others, on Wednesday, urged military officers and...
The Centre for AntiCorruption and Open Leadership, CACOL has responded to the 13 billion naira appropriation for the National Assembly as passed by the...
The Federal Government says it has met with some representatives of parents of the 82 rescued Chibok girls. The 82 schoolgirls, who were abducted from the...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday raided a house in Ikoyi, Lagos recovering about $43m, N23m and £27,000 in cash. The total cash when...