Opinion

Bribery, corruption and evolution of prosocial institutions Part 1

Ihesiulo Grace 29 September 2017 0

How the science of cooperation and cultural evolution will give us new tools in combating corruption. There is nothing natural about democracy. There is nothing natural about living in communities with complete strangers. There is nothing natural about large-scale anonymous cooperation. Yet

Opinion

Corruption Won’t End In Nigeria Till Jesus Comes – Abiara

Ihesiulo Grace 25 September 2017 0

The immediate past General Evangelist of the Christ Apostolic Church, Prophet Samuel Abiara has affirmed that corruption will not end in Nigeria until the return of Jesus Christ. The fight against corruption is one of the key agendas of President Muhammadu Buhari’s-led administration. Despite the effort made by the government to nip corruption in the […]

Politics

Atiku to FG: “You spent my money and abandoned me”

Ihesiulo Grace 8 September 2017 0

Disappointed at protracted battle with terrorist: “How can Nigeria battle with Boko Haram for five years” Berates current corruption war: “We recovered between $4.5 and $4.7 billion from looters in 1999” A former Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar said he has been sidelined despite the fact that he used […]

Opinion Power & Energy

DISCOs are the most corrupt and arrogant entities in Nigeria

Ihesiulo Grace 7 September 2017 0

Nigerians are being exploited, cheated and robbed by the electricity distribution companies, and what should be rightly seen as the most irresponsible and annoying style of stealing from law abiding citizens is being ignored by many when the likes of the Nigeria Police and the EFCC who should be working day and night trying to […]

News Politics

Concerned Nigerians protest against corruption

Ihesiulo Grace 3 September 2017 0

The Movement against corruption (MAC) has declared serious war against corruption and corrupt practices in both the public and private sectors of the country. This was declared in a protest which was headed by Dr. Mrs. Joe Odumakin and other members of the steering committee of MAC. The protesters started their march from Ikeja under […]

News In Brief Top Stories

More Diezani loot forfeited

Ihesiulo Grace 22 August 2017 0

The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the interim forfeiture of assets valued at $16,441,906 that have been linked the former Petroleum Minister, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission told Justice Abdulaziz Anka that the assets are suspected to be proceeds of corruption. More to follow

Economy News

Nigeria fails to follow up on European corruption investigation

Ihesiulo Grace 10 August 2017 0

It has emerged that an undisclosed European company secured a $356 million contract for the rehabilitation of Lot 3 of the Nigerian Railway Corporation’s Eastern line from Calabar to Maiduguri in November 2011. The contract was said to have been awarded during the administration of former president Goodluck Jonathan by the Federal Executive Council. According […]

News Top Stories

Court orders final forfeiture of Diezani’s $37.5m Banana Island property to FG

Ihesiulo Grace 8 August 2017 0

*Also directs forfeiture of $2.7m, N84.5m rent A Federal High Court in Ikoyi on Monday ordered the final forfeiture to the Federal Government, a $37.5million high rise building on Banana Island, Lagos, belonging to the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke. Justice Chuka Obiozor also ordered that $2.7m and N84.5m realised as rents […]

Education News

Corruption: Instill discipline in varsities others –VC urges

Ihesiulo Grace 8 August 2017 0

Prof. Moses Nzaruwa, the immediate past Vice Chancellor, Adamawa State University, Mubi, has raised alarm over high level of corruption and insanity in nation’s higher institution of learning. Nzaruwa, raise the alarm during a book launch, title “Afrikan Feminism,” authored by Francis Zirra a 23 year old Nigerian writer, held in Yola, Sunday. He worried

News Top Stories

Govs, Senators, corrupt elite fingered in rally against Magu

Ihesiulo Grace 4 June 2017 0

.Rally organisers planned to vandalise EFCC Hqrts during Magu’s absence -Source Strong indications emerged on Sunday night that the recent rally organised by a group, GLOCCOLAC, against the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu, was sponsored and financed by certain influential individuals to thwart the fight against

Business News

Nigeria’s GDP shrinks to $354b, says Soludo

Ihesiulo Grace 11 March 2017 0

The former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo said the size of nation’s Gross Domestic Product has shrunk from about $575 billion to about $354 billion. Soludo said this at an economic talk shop, organised by the Vanguard newspapers. The talk shop which had other panelists such as Comrade […]

News Top Stories

How I will end corruption in Nigeria – Osinbajo

Ihesiulo Grace 8 March 2017 0

The Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has said he will defeat corruption in Nigeria by replicating the model he used to drive down corruption in Lagos State Judiciary to zero per cent. He said he also had the system reformed during his tenure as Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos. He disclosed this during […]

News Nigeria

Lagos Speaker tasks Nigerians on morality, laments high level of corruption

Ihesiulo Grace 27 February 2017 0

The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa has tasked every Nigerian to imbibe the spirit of National patriotism and do away with every immoral attitude. The Speaker gave this reaction while reacting to the recent discovery by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), in which the commission recovered […]

News Nigeria

Corruption: PSC director arraigned over N11.75m fraud

Ihesiulo Grace 23 February 2017 0

The Director of Finance in the Police Service Commission (PSC), Mr. Emmanuel Ibe, has arraigned been over alleged mismanagement of N11, 750, 000 belonging to PSC by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC). Mr. Ibe was arraigned by ICPC on a 9-count charge before Justice C.N. Oji of the Federal Capital […]

Politics

WE HAVE TO COMPLETELY DELEGITIMISE CORRUPTION, VP OSINBAJO SAYS

Ihesiulo Grace 11 January 2017 0

Anti-Corruption agencies in the country have been urged to step up their engagement with the Nigerian public especially because there are still those who think when a politician who is their kinfolk steals, it is permissible. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, made the observation on Tuesday while meeting with a delegation of the Presidential Advisory Committee […]

Labour News

NLC tasks FG on sustaining fight on corruption

Ihesiulo Grace 28 November 2016 0

The federal government has been charged to sustain the war against corruption, which it started on the resumption of the present administration of Mohammadu Buhari.This massage was contained in an open solidarity letter by the NLC to the presidency on the recent happenings in the country regarding the alleged encroachment on the fundamental human rights […]

News Nigeria

Fighting Corruption, Too Much Task for Buhari – Agoro

Ihesiulo Grace 19 May 2015 0

Corruption in the Nigeria has become so endemic that the task and effort to fight it may become too enormous for the in-coming administration of the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to tackle effectively. Dr. Olapade Agoro, Founder and former Presidential Candidate of the National Action Counciln (NAC), stated this in […]

News Top Stories

Igbinedion’S Brother Gets N3m Fine for N25b Crime

Ihesiulo Grace 1 May 2015 0

For a second time, the Gabriel Osawaru Igbinedion family once again got what could be described as a slap in the wrist despite being convicted for corruption. Michael Igbinedion was on Thursday handed a N1 million fine on each of a three-count charge of money laundering by Justice Mohammed Liman of the Federal High Court […]

Entertainment Kiddies World

Know Your Heroes/Heroines: Tai Solarin

Ihesiulo Grace 28 April 2015 0

Born August 20th, 1922, Augustus Taiwo ‘Tai’ Solarin was a Nigerian educator and author. He established the famous Mayflower School, Ikenne, Ogun State in 1956. In 1952, Solarin became the principal of Molusi College, Ijebu Igbo, a post he held till 1956 when he became the proprietor and principal of Mayflower School. Solarin’s exact birth date is unknown, […]

Politics

2019: What Buhari Would Do for APC- Duhu

Ihesiulo Grace 28 April 2015 0

Dr Umar Duhu is the immediate past Interim National Vice Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the North- East. He was instrumental to the establishment of APC structures in the North East states. In this interview with SUNDAY ISUWA, the former ANPP Chairman in FCT and Adamawa State explained why he woo Vice Admiral […]