By Tom Okpe Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and related offences Commission, (ICPC), Prof Bolaji Owasanoye has revealed that Nigeria has enough laws and regulatory frameworks to address issues of corruption, but hypocrisy remains the greatest obstacle to fight against graft in the country. Owasanoye made this revelation in Abuja on Thursday, while presenting a keynote […]
By Haruna Salami The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) declared on Thursday that the N13.59 trillion 2021 budget was padded by the various Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) with duplicated projects worth N300 billion. The anti-corruption agency also disclosed that projects duplication worth N100 billion were also inserted into the N17.12 […]
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) has detained the Managing Director of a construction company, Temitope Banjoko, over allegations of money laundering. ICPC spokesperson, Mrs Azuka Ogugua, confirmed the arrest on Tuesday.She said that Banjoko was awarded a contract worth N46,305,000 (N41,674,500 after tax deductions) for the demolition, and evacuation of […]
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has called for better negotiation skills in curbing illicit financial flows. Illicit financial flows (IFFs) are illegal movements of money or capital from one country to another for various reasons. Bolaji Owasanoye, ICPC chairman, made this call in his opening remarks at the commission’s two-day […]
*Says Labour ministry, UCH Ibadan involved in recruitment scam The chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Bolaji Owasanoye, says 257 projects amounting to N20.138 billion were duplicated in the 2021 budget. The ICPC chairman while speaking at the third national summit on diminishing corruption in the public service with […]
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and the Department of State Services (DSS) have arrested 48 individuals for alleged irregularities in the conduct of the Joint Universities Preliminary Examinations Board. JUPEB is an advanced level educational examination that qualifies a candidate for admission into 200 level in any Nigerian and foreign […]
By Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja A civil rights group in the FCT has petitioned the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) over the alleged imposition of a levy on senior secondary school students in the territory, particularly those in SS1 and SS2. The group, an Initiative for Citizens’ Rights, Accountability and Development (ICRAD) […]
By Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences (ICPC) is poised to continue to partner with the Universal basic Education Commission (UBEC) in the fight against corruption. The Executive Secretary of the commission, Dr. Hammid Bobboyi, while inaugurating the members of the Universal basic Education – Anti Corruption and Transparency Unit […]
Tom Okpe, Abuja To intensify the Buhari administration’s fight against corruption, the House of Representatives Adhoc Committee on Assessment and Status of All Recovered Loots on Wednesday queried the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences (ICPC) as well as other relevant agencies over the assets. Others grilled by […]
ANDREW OROLUA, ABUJA. The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has declared Gimba Yau Kumo , a son- in -law of President Muhammadu Buhari and two other persons wanted over an alleged $65million fraud. The two other persons wanted along with Kumo are Mr Tarry Rufus said to be a director of […]
The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, has said that corruption is the greatest challenge of the country at the moment. Professor Owasanoye, who spoke at a capacity-building workshop for members of the House of Representatives Committee on Anti-Corruption, in Abuja, said that corruption was responsible […]
Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), is collaborating to address issues of corruption and financial misconduct in the nation’s extractive industry. The Executive Secretary of NEITI, Dr. Orji Ogbonnaya Orji noted that both agencies have established a joint cooperation arrangement […]
BY TOSIN FALEYE We would all agree that the media space is never lacking stories of personal and public interest jostling for audience attention. However, one that caught the attention of this writer is a brewing fiasco in the Federal Character Commission FCC, as an agency meant to foster equity and togetherness, faces accusations and […]
A report of a pilot survey of 2020 Nigeria Corruption Index released by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), has shown the country as highly corrupt with 48 percent rating. Sadly, the report described the Justice Sector Monetary Corruption score as absolutely corrupt. Judiciary ought punish offenders but the rating for […]
The chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related offences Commission, Prof. Bolaji Olufunmileyi Owasanoye and the immediate past National Secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Afam Joshua Osigwe, the Attorney General of Delta state, Mr Peter Adogbejire Mrakpo and 69 others have been awarded the rank of Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN). […]
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has stated that investigations will soon commence to reveal the sources of looted items. According to a statement released on its website on Tuesday, October 27, the probe was necessitated by the looting spree that ensued as a result of the protests across the country. […]
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission has discovered N2.67bn funds meant for school feeding programmes hidden in private bank accounts. READ ALSO: ICPC seizes N16 billion from Ministry of Agriculture Daily Times Nigeria gathered that the anti-graft agency made the revelation on Monday during its second National Summit on Corruption at the […]
Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) recovered N16 billion from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture in 2020. ICPC Chairman, Prof. Bolaji Owasanye disclosed this at the virtual meeting of the 2nd “National Summit on Anti-Corruption in the Public Sector’’. Owasanye said that the money was moved under suspicious circumstances below the threshold […]
A Kwara based NGO, Kwara Advancement Initiative, says it has uncovered N325m diverted from the accounts of the Kwara State Internal Revenue Services disguised as payments for non-existing projects done by one Compumetric Solutions Limited, Daily Times has learnt. The NGO in a petition signed by Ibrahim Sulyman asked the Independent Corrupt Practices and other […]
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has grilled the top creme of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) over the unresolved allegations of financial fraud leveled against the commission. Azuka Ogugua, the spokesperson of the anti-graft agency said some directors of NDDC were interrogated at the Commission’s headquarters recently, in line with […]