Corruption

By, Damilola BANJO VARIOUS corruption indexes have rated the Nigeria Police Force and the judiciary among the top five most corrupt institutions in Nigeria. The Transparency International TI) in its 10th edition of Global Corruption…
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MARY Adeniyi, 9Mobile Subscriber arrived at the Abuja office of Emerging Markets Telecommunication Services Limited (EMTS) at about 9 am for her Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) replacement. The firm, EMTS is widely known as 9Mobile. From…
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THE embattled Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Company Limited (NBET) Managing Director, Marilyn Amobi, has once again been indicted in a fresh N517 million naira contracts-splitting and misappropriation in the procurement process that…
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In 2006, the Delta State government established the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) to address the issues of lack of development in its oil-producing communities. Thirteen years later, many…
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In the third and final part of a three – part undercover investigative series, FISAYO SOYOMBO documents the soft side of his time in police cell and prison, and how prison, police and court officials conspired to abduct him after…
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In the second report of a three – part undercover investigative series, FISAYO SOYOMBO exposes how the courts short-change the law, and the prisons are themselves a cesspool of the exact reasons for which they hold inmates. TOO many…
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Nigerian Government, between 1999 and 2010, reportedly spent over N4.7 trillion on power, but the country remained in darkness. Eight years later, Jonathan and Buhari administrations invested another N1.164 trillion into the sinkhole…
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With Nigeria’s porous borders and corrupt law enforcement officers, anyone can conveniently cross into and leave the country or smuggle in goods without having to answer questions or present relevant documents—until a border closure was…
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 The first part of this undercover investigation exposed how students of The Polytechnic Ibadan are being extorted by the academic staff of the institution, how they systematically pay for grades and how students are made to pay for lecture…
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There are 98 million Nigerians living in extreme poverty, according to a report by the United Nations. To survive, many, especially women engage in petty trading in various markets. But the youths in Rivers State communities, who…
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