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N20b Bailout loan: EFCC withdraws case against Kogi govt

N20b Bailout loan: EFCC withdraws case against Kogi govt

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday withdrew its suit seeking the forfeiture of the N20billion bailout funds granted to the Kogi State Government by Sterling Bank. The money was meant for the payment of Kogi State workers, but was alleged to have been, instead, domiciled in an interest yielding account with the bank. Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke granted the order of withdrawal sequel to a motion filed and argued by the counsel to EFCC, Kemi Pinheiro, SAN. Mr Pinheiro listed six grounds upon which the judge granted the prayer, adding that “the EFCC is a responsible body”. One…
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EXPOSED: How Sambo Dasuki’s Teenage Sons Hid Millions In Tax Haven

EXPOSED: How Sambo Dasuki’s Teenage Sons Hid Millions In Tax Haven

Three children of Sambo Dasuki, including his teenage sons, kept secret assets in tax havens when he served as National Security Adviser. This was exposed by Pandora Papers, a project led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), and which Premium Times is a part of. According to the investigation, Nigerian multi-billionaire businessman, Leno Adesanya, in 2013 approached a secrecy seller in the British Virgin Islands, Trident Trust Company Limited, to help family members of Dasuki register a shell company, Hydropower Investments Limited. In the documentation submitted for the company’s incorporation, Adesanya indicated that Hydropower Investment was set up…
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EXPOSED: How Nigerian Senator, Barau Jibrin, cornered multi-million Naira projects for himself, children

EXPOSED: How Nigerian Senator, Barau Jibrin, cornered multi-million Naira projects for himself, children

How Nigerian Senator, Barau Jibrin, cornered multi-million Naira projects for himself, children The Senator representing Kano North Senatorial District, Barau Jibrin, has been fingered in alleged money laundering, budget fraud and unlawful enrichment of his family. The Senator is also accused of using companies registered in the names of his children and cronies for the execution many constituency projects, without regard to due process. These allegations are contained in a petition submitted to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, by the Northern Youth Council of Nigeria, NYCN. The petition, dated Thursday, October 7 and signed by the NYCN President,…
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EXPOSED: How Oyetola Bought Tinubu’s London Mansion From Diezani’s Associate Declared Wanted For Fraud

EXPOSED: How Oyetola Bought Tinubu’s London Mansion From Diezani’s Associate Declared Wanted For Fraud

How Oyetola Bought Tinubu’s London Mansion From Diezani’s Associate Declared Wanted For Fraud Pandora Papers, an investigation led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), has exposed the secrets behind the London mansion of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. PREMIUM TIMES is the only Nigerian newspaper among 150 news organisations that have direct access to a trove of almost 12 million confidential files on the illicit wealth of some of the most powerful persons on earth. In previous reports, PREMIUM TIMES exposed how some influential Nigerians, including former Governor Peter Obi, Senator Stella Oduah, and Governor Atiku Bagudu hid stolen…
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EXPOSED: How Senator Stella Oduah Paid N5 Billion Cash For London Mansions

EXPOSED: How Senator Stella Oduah Paid N5 Billion Cash For London Mansions

Pandora Papers, one of the biggest leaks of financial documents in the world, has uncovered how Senator Stella Oduah secretly acquired mansions in London. According to investigation led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, including more than 600 journalists, some from PREMIUM TIMES, seven London properties are connected to Oduah. One of the properties is said to be in her name, two through her Nigerian-incorporated firm, and four secretly through her Seychelles offshore company. International Trading and Logistics Company Limited (ITCL) was incorporated in Seychelles, a commonly used secrecy and tax haven, with Oduah as the ultimate beneficial owner.…
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Pandora Papers: Pressure Mounts On Buhari To Probe Peter Obi, Bagudu, Others

Pandora Papers: Pressure Mounts On Buhari To Probe Peter Obi, Bagudu, Others

There is increased pressure on President Muhammadu Buhari to probe one of his key allies, Kebbi State Governor, Atiku Bagudu; a PDP chieftain and former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi and all Nigerians fingered in the Pandora Papers, the latest leaks of financial documents in the world, THE WHISPERER has learnt. Pandora Papers released this week have exposed the secret wealth and dealings of world leaders, politicians and billionaires including influential Nigerians. Aside from Bagudu and Obi, a former Chief Justice of Nigeria, serving and former lawmakers, a pastor and many other high-profile citizens have been mentioned in money…
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JUST IN: EFCC Arrests Kano First Lady Hafsat Ganduje

JUST IN: EFCC Arrests Kano First Lady Hafsat Ganduje

Hafsat Ganduje, First Lady of Kano State, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). She was arrested based on a petition Abdulazeez, one of her sons, wrote against her. In his petition, Abdulazeez, the governor’s son, had said he was approached by a property developer to facilitate the acquisition of some plots of land in Kano with some hundreds of thousands of US dollars as commission. He said three months later, the property developer discovered that the plots of land he paid for had been allocated to other buyers and he requested for refund. Abdulazeez said…
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EXPOSED: How Nigeria’s ex-Attorney General Bayo Ojo received $10 million from Malabu largesse

EXPOSED: How Nigeria’s ex-Attorney General Bayo Ojo received $10 million from Malabu largesse

How Nigeria’s ex-Attorney General Bayo Ojo received $10 million from Malabu largesse Prosecutors in Italy say the payment amounted to a bribe for a role Mr Ojo played in the past. Christopher Bayo Ojo, who between June 2005 and May 2007 was Nigeria’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice, received $10.026 million the infamous Malabu OPL 245 share-outs, a payment investigators said was a “bribe” for his earlier controversial decision to reassign the lucrative oil block to Dan Etete, Nigeria’s former petroleum minister. Mr Ojo in 2006 handed control of the Oil Prospecting Licence (OPL) 245 to Malabu Oil and Gas,…
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Pandora Papers: Group dismisses sponsored Premium Times report, says investigations will vindicate him

Pandora Papers: Group dismisses sponsored Premium Times report, says investigations will vindicate him

Pandora Papers: Group dismisses sponsored Premium Times report, says investigations will vindicate him A human rights group, Nigerians For Justice (NFJ), has dismissed what it called an “obvious sponsored inquest” against the Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi. The group in a statement issued on Monday in Asaba, Delta State capital, said that the PREMIUM TIMES report on Obi’s foreign business activities published earlier today tried to create a wrong impression about him. The statement signed by NFJ’s Chairman, Mr. Francis Ezeoka, accused the newspaper of bad faith and of…
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Pandora Papers: Peter Obi implicated in global money laundering scandal

Pandora Papers: Peter Obi implicated in global money laundering scandal

A report has revealed how a former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, set up companies using fronts and hiding it from the public and government in Nigeria. The report by Premium Times in collaboration with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) a nonprofit newsroom and network of journalists centered in Washington, D.C., tagged the Pandora Papers on Monday laid bare a global entanglement of political power and secretive offshore finances and dealings. According to the report, the former governor is involved in a number of dealings which comprises money laundering and the establishment of companies with fronts in…
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