Orders PPPRA to pay N4.4b to govt . NNPC, others to refund N3.7b . Corporation owes govt N1.305 tr . Nigeria loses $10b to oil theft AN audit report covering the period of 2009 to 2011 which was released on Monday by the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) was a catalogue of fraudulent deals […]
The world over, Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are to agencies, organizations or social movements that open up the liberal political space, engender equalization of opportunities; improve the circumstances of disadvantaged peoples and institutions and hold governments to account. Ordinarily, NGOs are expected to be not profit-oriented and are supposed to be independent of the control […]
Human rights and civil society groups have said the partial removal of immunity clause by the House of Representatives in the ongoing constitution review will not check the spate of corruption in the country. The groups said impunity was the bigger challenge facing the country and not corruption, adding that more emphasis should be placed […]
Fifty three years after independence, Nigeria has emerged as a country undermined by the scourge of corruption, so much so that many have come to see it as in invincible institution. Anti-corruption crusaders believe, and perhaps justifiably so, that corruption is an official language in Nigeria. The frequency of financial scandals – as well as […]
A few days ago, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the finance minister, alerted us to the fact that the nation would soon run out of money to run itself. She hid under the alibi of the theft of crude oil, bunkering and pipeline vandalism. But there’s more to what the coordinating minister for the economy was willing […]
A civil society group, Civil Society Network Against Corruption, CSNAC, has demanded the extradition of a former Governor of Bayelsa State, Diepriye Alamieyeseigha, to the United States for trial/ The group, a coalition of over hundred and fifty anti- corruption organizstions, quoting an online medium said the ex-governor had used money accumulated through corruption and other illegal […]
The European Parliament is set to stop the purchase of stolen oil from Nigeria in Europe. Any crude oil meant to be sold in the European market is now to be accompanied with a certificate of origin. This was one of the landmark decisions taken at the meeting of the members of the African, Caribbean, […]
The European Parliament is set to stop the purchase of stolen oil from Nigeria in Europe. Any crude oil meant to be sold in the European market is now to be accompanied with a certificate of origin. This was one of the landmark decisions taken at the meeting of the members of the African, Caribbean, […]
The standing committee set up by the Niger State government to fast-track exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbon (oil and gas) deposit in the Bida Basin is to network with other states with inland hydrocarbon basins in the north to forge a common front for quick actions. This is coming on the heels of the analysis […]
I am always delighted when I have to speak on corruption because that’s what I have been hired to do. When I accepted the invitation to speak at the 16th Wole Soyinka Annual Lecture organized by the National Association of Seadogs two things were on my mind. First, it is a rare privilege to for me to be […]