PFIPC: Reps panel uncovers fake documents, 58 accounts, ₦400m fraud, fake Executive Order
…exonerates Gbajabiamila, uncovers forged presidential, legislative documents By Gift ChapiOdekina, Abuja ABUJA — The House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee investigating the controversial Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, PFIPC, has uncovered alleged forgery and alteration of presidential and legislative documents used to give the purported agency official legitimacy. The committee also disclosed the discovery of […]
Former LG boss docked
Former Coordinator of Orsu North Development Area in Imo State, Chief Damian Okpara, was Thursday, November 5 docked before an Abuja Chief Magistrate Court sitting at Life Camp in the Federal Capital Territory, although the court said it lacked jurisdiction to hear the case of criminal conspiracy and giving of false information to the police levelled against him.
Soludo’s choice followed due process, says PDP National Auditor
By Peter Duru MAKURDI—The National Auditor of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Samuel Ortom, has declared that the party adhered strictly to the principles of fairness and due process in the selection of Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo as the party’s flag bearer in the forthcoming 2010 gubernatorial elections in Anambra State. Ortom spoke […]
Pilgrimage: CAN accuses Nothern Govs of discrimination…petitions NCPC
By Chinyere Amalu ABUJA—Christians in the northern parts of the country are protesting refusal by some northern state governors to sponsor them to holy land for the pilgrimage, saying they are being discriminated against. Based on this, some state chapters of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) have petitioned the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC) on […]
Presidency, Reps strike deal on royalty for oil communities
By Tordue Salem ABUJA—The House of Representatives and the Presidency yesterday agreed on a new and more specific royalty regime for crude oil bearing communities in the country. The House of Representatives joint committees on Petroleum Resources upstream and downstream, Gas and Justice at a retreat in Warri, Delta state with the Inter agency team […]
Poverty, bane of corruption, by expert
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA—Depreciating standard of living, widespread unemployment and insincerity of purpose by policy makers, were yesterday, identified as factors responsible for the increasing spate of corruption in the country, despite all the various counter-measures and policies promulgated by successive administrations to rid Nigeria of the menace. An Anti-Corruption expert, Dr. Peter Langsett who […]
