LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidency says the person declared wanted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) is not an inlaw to President Muhammadu Buhari as being claimed in some quarters. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, confirmed this in a statement in Abuja on…
LAGOS MAY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Miss Deborah Ighiwiyisi Agbonayinma, daughter of a Member of the House of Representatives, has been declared wanted by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC). Deborah is wanted in connection with issues bordering on using fake degree certificates to gain employment with PenCom. Deborah Agbonayinma is the daughter of…
LAGOS MAY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari’s son-In-law, Gimba Yau Kumo has been declared wanted by the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC, for stealing $56million from the National Housing Funds, NHF. Kumo, a former Managing Director of the Federal Mortgage Bank is married to Fatima, one of the daughters of President. ICPC’s spokesperson, Azuka C. Ogugua in a…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s leading anti-corruption group, Human and Environmental Development Agenda, (HEDA Resource Centre) has dragged to court the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, over the Asset Tracing, Recovery and Management Regulations, 2019. HEDA said certain sections contradict the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), the Immigration Act and the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has uncovered the sum of $919,202.07 (approximately N450 million) fraudulently hidden in a bank account for six years. The anti-graft agency announced in a statement on Monday, November 30, 2020 that its Rivers State office, acting on a petition, traced the loot…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission, Prof Bolaji Owasanoye, said the agency has discovered N2.67 billion meant for the school feeding programme in private accounts. The agency, he added, also found over N2.5 billion diverted by a deceased worker with the ministry of agriculture, noting that 18 buildings, 12 business…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Niger Delta leaders and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) may be heading for showdown over the interrogation of senior management staff of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Notable leaders in the region, under the aegis of the Niger Delta Leaders Forum (NDLF) on Friday described…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission says it will soon begin to clamp down on institutions awarding illegal degrees in the country. The Spokesperson of the Commission, Azuka Ogugua, in a statement on Monday said the decision to clamp down on such institutions was reached when the management of…
