LAGOS AUGUST 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The investigation into the controversial Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC) has widened, with the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) uncovering two additional fictitious agencies allegedly linked to the scheme. The development was disclosed on Thursday by ICPC Chairman, Musa Aliyu, after he submitted an interim report on…
LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says it has uncovered two more fake government agencies while investigating the activities of the self-acclaimed Director-General of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), Adeniyi Matthew Adeyemi. ICPC Chairman, Dr Musa Adamu Aliyu, disclosed this on Thursday after presenting the commission’s…
By Ifeanyi Nwabuogu LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian custom service (NCS) in its efforts to foster ethical practices and integrity within its command, the Tin Can Island Port command of the Nigerian Custom Service in collaboration with the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences commission ICPC hosted a training lecture on transparency and accountability…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Muhammad Lawal Shuaibu, a Presiding Judge at the Court of Appeal, Sokoto Division, on Monday urged anti-corruption agents to focus on larger figures involved in corrupt practices, rather than targeting “yahoo boys.” Justice Shuaibu made this call during the opening of the North West Zonal Attorney General’s Anti-Corruption Forum (AGAF), organized…
LAGOS JUNE 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Imo State University in Owerri, Imo State, has been under investigation by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission and Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board over an allegation of admission racketeering involving some staff members of the institution. PUNCH Metro gathered that JAMB officials, after observing that its admission…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Abuja, has ordered the arrest of a former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Usman Jibrin, and two other officers over N1.5 billion money laundering charges preferred on them by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC). The court issued the arrest warrant after…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre), a leading anti-corruption organization, has written a petition to the Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), expressing its concern about the Federal Civil Service Commission employing staff with fake employment letters. The organization accused the commission of…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A combined team of officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, the Independence Corrupt Practices and other related offenses Commission, ICPC, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested four Point Of Sale, POS, operators in Makurdi for extorting their customers. The team, led by the CBN Director of…
