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Africa World

Saudi Billionaire in anti-corruption net

Billionaire Sheikh Mohammed Hussein al-Amoudi ranking as one of the richest African-born people in the world has been arrested in Saudi by the country’s anti-corruption squad. Al-Amoudi was born in Dessie, Ethiopia, in 1946 to an Ethiopian mother and a Saudi father. He immigrated to Saudi Arabia in the mid-1960s and made his first billion […]
Abia Times Nigeria

We’re not after you, NAVC tells Abia politicians, top civil servants

As efforts rid the nation of corrupt practices intensifies, the National Anti-corruption Volunteer Corps (NAVC) has assured politicians, top civil servants and other vulnerable Abians in position of authority that the agency’s primary assignment in Abia State was not intended to witch-hunt them, but to stamp out corruption in the society. The State coordinator of […]
News

FG raises alarm over plot to discredit PACAC

The Federal Government has raised the alarm over an orchestrated plot to discredit the Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption (PACAC), and by extension the government’s anti-corruption efforts, using ‘419ers’ and their ilk. In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the
News Nigeria

Osinbajo seeks robust international collaboration for repatriation of stolen assets

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has called for an urgent robust global framework on repatriation of stolen assets to ensure quick restitution to victim countries. Osinbajo made the call in his remarks at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), anti-corruption forum in Paris, France, on Thursday, noting that such framework was long overdue. He […]
Business News Nigeria

CACOL condemns CBN’s proposed cash deposits, withdrawals charges

The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL has condemned the decision of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN to reintroduce charges on all cash deposits and withdrawals in bank transactions, describing it as exorbitant, exploitative and anti-poor. The Executive Chairman of CACOL, Mr. Debo Adeniran, speaking on the development said there is nothing logical […]