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Budget Padding: Jibrin Storms ICPC Office (Pictures)

Former Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, on Monday, August 1, 2016, went to the Abuja office of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, to submit his petition against Speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara. Jibrin accused Dogara and other members of the House of padding the 2016…

Election of Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has been upheld by the National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Ikeja. The Tribunal ruled on Friday that Gbajabiamila’s victory at the March 28 poll was valid. Gbajabiamila contested in the Surulere Federal Constituency I election in Lagos under the platform of the…

IITA Boss, Prof Ogunbodede, In Prison Over N115m Scam

The accused persons Justice Ayo Emmanuel of a Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State, has remanded the Director-General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, IITA, Ibadan, Professor Benjamin Adefemi Ogunbodede, and three others in Agodi prison in Ibadan. The quartet were arraigned on Thursday, October 30, 2014 by the Economic and Financial…

CBN Gov, MTN, Stanbic IBTC In Messy $8b Scam

Going by a report recently published by National Daily newspaper, the controversial Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has been fingered in a money laundering fraud. The amount involved in the scam is said to be $8 billion. MTN and Stanbic IBTC bank were also implicated in the scam. Read the…