Whistleblower

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,…

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…

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…

Justice Inyang Ekwo of  Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday pronounced a judgement prohibiting Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from retrying Former Governor of Abia state,  Senator Orji Uzor Kalu More details soon

Abdulazeez Ganduje, the first son of the Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State, has fled to Egypt with his family after exposing his mother’s alleged corruption. Mr Abdulazeez had dragged his mum, Hafsat Ganduje, to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, for alleged corruption. The governor’s son had petitioned that he was approached by a property developer to help facilitate the acquisition of some plots of land in Kano with some hundreds of thousands of US dollars and at least 35 million Naira as “facilitation commission”. “But three months later, (the property developer) discovered that the plots of land he…

EFCC chairman Abdulrasheed Bawa has been treated and now due back at work, the anti-graft office said in a statement. The disclosure came hours after Mr Bawa slumped at an event at the Presidential Villa on Thursday afternoon. The 41-year-old was subsequently accompanied out of the event and moved to a hospital where he was said to have received prompt treatment, with the EFCC now declaring him as “hale and hearty.” Read EFCC’s full statement below: The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa is hale and hearty. This clarification became necessary following an incident today September…

EFCC Chairman Slumps At Aso Rock The Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, was rushed out of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Thursday, after he slumped at a programme. Bawa was giving his goodwill message at the National Identity Day celebration when he suddenly stopped speaking. He was speaking about a man the commission arrested in Ibadan, Oyo state, with 116 SIM cards when the incident happened. He was later assisted to his seat by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Pantami, and other senior officials at the event. Shortly, he was…

The Minister of Police Affairs, Maigari Dingyadi, has said that former acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, CP Ibrahim Magu, is still on the Federal Government’s payroll as a police officer despite his suspension by President, Muhammadu Buhari. The minister spoke on Tuesday when he featured as a guest on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ current affairs programme. Magu, who served as acting chairman of the EFCC from 2015 to 2020, was rejected twice by the Senate. He was later suspended along with several others in July 2020 for allegedly mismanaging funds of the commission, an allegation which…

Mr. Abdulazeez Ganduje, the eldest son of the governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, has reported his mother to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for allegedly swindling him. According a PREMIUM TIMES report, the first lady, Hafsat Ganduje, has shunned an invitation extended to her by the EFCC to report for questioning. According to the report, Mrs Ganduje was invited to report last Thursday to the Abuja headquarters of the EFCC. Mr Abdulazeez had dragged his mum, Hafsat Ganduje, to the EFCC, sources familiar with the matter said, suggesting a pattern of corruptly using family access to power…

Federal Agency Director ‘Commits Suicide After EFCC Invitation’ An assistant director of the National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA), Mr Christopher Orji, has reportedly committed suicide in Abuja. Orji’s lifeless body was reportedly found dangling with a rope tied to a ceiling fan at his residence at Federal Housing Authority Estate, Lugbe, Abuja, at about 4pm on August 30. Sources within NABDA told Daily Trust that police homicide detectives were still investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of 59-year-old Orji. Reports said he had been invited by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to report at its Abuja office on…