anti corruption news

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen, has revealed plans to create special courts solely for the purpose of hearing and speedily determining corruption and financial crime cases. Onnoghen broke the news, while speaking at the opening of the 2017/2018 Legal Year and the...

Yakubu Dogara, Speaker of the House of Representatives has called for a preventive approach to fighting corruption. The Speaker stated this while speaking in Abuja at the ‎launch of ‘Antidotes for Corruption: The Nigerian Story’, a book written by Dino Melaye. He said prosecuting high profile...

Senator Dino Melaye has launched the “Antidote for Corruption,” a book on the 'solution to Nigeria’s corruption problem'. The event is taking place at he Shehu Musa Yar’ Adua centre in Abuja. The foreword for the book was written by Senate President Bukola Saraki. See photos of dignitaries at...

Yemi Osinbajo, Nigeria's acting president said corruption is prevalent among political elites in Nigeria because of the high premium placed on wealth in the country. Inaugurating the Private Sector Advisory Group for the Sustainable Development Goals at the Presidential Villa, Abuja...

Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Diaspora Affairs, has blamed the lack of adequate sanctions for the thriving corruption in Nigeria. Dabiri-Erewa made the remark at the flag-off of South-West Women Against Corruption (WAC) project in Lagos; DAILY...

Former Governor of Taraba State, Jolly Nyame who is being prosecuted by the EFCC for charges of money laundering and embezzlement to the tune of N1.6 Billion at the FCT High Court today, February 14, 2017, lost his no-case submission before Justice Adebukola Banjoko. After dismissing the...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has explained how his administration fought corruption in the country without making noise about it. Jonathan's comment may be a tutorial to President Muhammadu Buhari's noisy anti corruption campaign which many Nigerian believe is one-sided. Mr. Jonathan...

President Muhammadu Buhari may be moving his anti-corruption war to Nigerian Universities as he has sent a caution note to Vice Chancellors of Federal Government owned universities against reckless spending of resources. The President said any university fund that is not spent mainly on the...