By Ikechukwu Amaechi LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-For some Nigerian politicians, the recently leaked Pandora Papers which chronicled offshore services firms that set up shell companies for clients – many of them influential politicians and businesspersons allegedly seeking to conceal their financial dealings – was an aha moment. The eureka effect on them was most palpable….
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the 2019 election, Mr. Peter Obi, has welcomed the proposed probe of his foreign business operations by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as a result of the recently released Pandora Papers. Though Obi was not accused of either stealing public…
LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Anambra State Governor and Peoples Democratic Party Vice Presidential Candidate in 2019 election, Mr Peter Obi, has reacted to a media report that he breached Nigerian laws by engaging in secret businesses set up in tax havens, declaring that he broke no law. An online publication, Premium Times, quoting Pandora Papers,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Acting Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mohammed Bello-Koko, has joined the list of high-profile individuals implicated in the ongoing revelation by the Pandora Papers. Termed the “Pandora Papers”, it is considered as one of the largest ever global media investigations, by over 600 journalists who together analysed some…