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ICPC Begins Tracking Of N1.68bn Projects In Gombe

Tolani Giwa 24/06/2020

Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has begun tracking of 22 constituency projects worth N1.68 billion in Gombe State. Mr Laban Rakum, Superintendent, ICPC Bauchi State office, who is the team leader for the exercise, disclosed this during a Constituency and Executive Projects Tracking Group (CEPTG) meeting, held in Gombe on Tuesday. […]Read More

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Buhari Inaugurates ICPC Board, Demands Accountability

Ayomide Oyewole 05/02/2019

President Muhammadu Buhari has sworn-in the Chairman and Members of the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission Board, and expressed his administration’s determination to ensure that every agency of government account for public revenue generated or expended. Speaking at the event on Monday at the State House, Abuja, the president noted that despite his administration anti-corruption drive, […]Read More

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Buhari Swears In Bolaji Owasanoye As ICPC Chairman

Ayomide Oyewole 05/02/2019

The President also inaugurated eight new members into the commission while the oaths of office were taken. The members are Delta, Enugu, Anambra and Lagos. Others are from Katsina, Jigawa, Niger and Nasarawa including a youth representative who is 27 years old. The swearing-in ceremony was held on Monday at the council chambers of the […]Read More

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EFCC Files 10-count charge Against Former SGF Lawal

Ayomide Oyewole 31/01/2019

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has filed a 10-count charge bordering on alleged conspiracy and fraudulent acquisition of property against former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir David Lawal. In a document made available to The Guardian yesterday in Abuja, Lawal will be arraigned before a Federal High Court in […]Read More

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Senate confirms Owasanoye as ICPC chairman

Ayomide Oyewole 20/12/2018

The Senate on Thursday confirmed the appointment of Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye as Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission. Also confirmed were eight others as members of the ICPC board. They are Grace Chinda from Delta State Okolo Titus (Enugu State), Obiora Igwedebia (Anambra State), Olubukola Balogun (Lagos State) and Justice Adamu […]Read More

Why I Defeated Jonathan In 2015- Buhari

Ayomide Oyewole 11/12/2018

The President has revisited the 2015 election, saying he won because Nigerians revolted over endemic corruption. He spoke yesterday at the opening of the Corruption Risk Training for Heads of Anti-Corruption Agencies of the African Union (AU) at the old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. President Muhammadu Buhari said those who plundered the […]Read More

Sex-for-marks: ICPC to arraign ex-OAU don on Monday

Ayomide Oyewole 15/11/2018

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) said it is set for the trial of a former lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Prof. Richard Iyiola Akindele, for allegedly demanding sex from a student, Monica Osagie. Akindele, who will be arraigned on November 19 at the Federal High Court, Osogbo, […]Read More

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FIRS to block bank accounts of 6772 corporate tax defaulters

Mariam Harun 25/09/2018

Babatunde Fowler, executive chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), said that 6,772 corporate bank accounts will be frozen for defaulting on tax payments. Fowler told Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance, that the agency has collected N12.66 billion from billionaire tax defaulters in less than a month. Saying the law empowers FIRS to appoint […]Read More