The EFCC has put a former Governor of Rivers State, Dr. Peter Odili, under surveillance. Read More…
The EFCC has arrested the former Special Adviser to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on Media, Dr. Reuben Abati and Bala Mohammed former minister of the Federal Capital Territory. Read More…
The Presidency is insisting that two Supreme Court Justices and four others must step aside ahead of their trial for alleged corruption, it was learnt last night. Read More…
President Buhari said he believes in the rule of law and that every corrupt Nigerian will be brought to book, Read More…
John Okafor(Nollywood actor) has said that he gives President Muhammadu Buhari 100 per cent of his support on his actions against the Nigerian judiciary Read More…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has re-arrested the former Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode. Read More…
The National Judicial Council on Friday rejected the suggestion by the Nigerian Bar Association to suspend serving judges who were among the seven arrested by the Department of State Service between October 8 and 9. Read More…
Transport Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, has described allegations made against him by Supreme Court Justice, Sylvester Ngwuta, as concucted lies by drowning man that should be ignored. Read More…
She claimed on Wednesday that she could not report to the EFCC because she was admitted to the intensive care unit at the Golden Cross Hospital in Ikoyi, Lagos. Read More…
Another Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Sylvester Ngwuta, has accused the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, and his Science and Technology counterpart, Read More…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested two serving commissioners in Enugu State in connection with investigations into the $115m (N23bn) allegedly disbursed by a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, during the build-up to the 2015 presidential election. Read More…
The gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Akwa Ibom State in the 2015 elections, Okon Umana, on Wednesday dismissed as baseless allegations by Read More…
Barely 24 hours after his detention, former Minister of State for Defence, Sen. Musiliu Obanikoro has implicated Governor Ayodele Fayose in Read More…
An aide to Senator Obanikoro, Mr. Jonathan Eze, in a statement last night said the former minister had been detained by the anti-graft agency. Read More…
The Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, has described as false an online report that he bribed some Supreme Court justices to get his governorship election victory validated. Read More…
Twenty one of the more than 200 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist Boko Haram insurgents in April 2014 has been released to the Nigerian government, a government source told SaharaReporters. Read More…
Late King of Pop, Michael Jackson passed away seven years ago but still earned a staggering $825 million in 2016, making him the biggest dead celebrity earner of the year. Read More…
An Economic and Financial Crimes Commission witness, Mr. Mustapha Gadanya, on Wednesday told an FCT High Court how the then Director of Police Pensions moved N24bn into different accounts. Read More…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday, declared Goodie Ibru wanted for alleged capital market fraud, money laundering, and diversion of funds. Read More…
Hundreds of members of the Human Rights Defenders and Advocacy Centre (Concerned Nigerians) staged a protest in front of the office of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) in Ikoyi, Lagos on Wednesday. Read More…
The House of Representatives on Tuesday named a committee to investigate weekend’s raid by the State Security Service, SSS, on some judges’ homes across the country. Read More…
The duo of Dr. Ibe Kachiukwu, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, and Mr. Dafe Sejebor, Group General Manager, National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS) and Read More…
Time to treat corruption with the seriousness it deserves
In nearly every corner of the world in recent years, from the Arab Spring to Latin America and many places in between, political turbulence has made clear that governments are unwise to shrug off their citizens’ growing concerns about corruption. Read More…
Naija Standard – SAMSON SHOAGA/EDITOR, presently in UNITED KINGDOM
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you”-Freidrich Nietzsche