Corruption

For many years, Dana Air, a domestic airline operator in Nigeria, raised millions of naira through inflight donations to Sri Sai Vandana Foundation, an illegal organisation that was not registered until October last year after The ICIR…
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By Ibanga ISINE NIGERIAN security operatives, fake federal, state and local government revenue officials and gangsters extort over N5.8 billion annually from traders conveying livestock from the far North to the country’s South-South and…
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SOME Nigerian governors– incumbent and former– have won the last election and are set to join the 9th Senate, but a good number of them are on the corruption list of Economic Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, the agency that investigates …
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In this investigation, IBANGA ISINE uncovered how in a single trip, traders could pay as high as N300, 000 in illicit charges to police, soldiers and criminal gangs on highways, costs that directly go to increasing the prices of food for…
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THE travails of Messrs Abdullahi Sambo and Waziri Bintube at Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc (NBET) began in June 2017 after the former wrote to the Ministry of Power, Works, and Housing challenging his redeployment in the company.…
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THE managing director of the Nigeria Bulk Electricity Trading Plc (NBET), Marilyn Amobi, fraudulently paid at least N2 billion to two power generating companies, documents obtained by Leaks NG have shown. Leaks NG, founded in 2018, is…
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LAST week, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) released a statement that it intercepted a 40-feet trailer with codeine and other illicit drugs in Lagos, but investigation by The ICIR reveals that the…
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In this concluding part of last Saturday’s report on failed 2016 constituency projects in Ekiti State, INNOCENT DURU sought the comments of the contractors, lawmakers, contracting government agency and experts on why the borehole projects…
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Many rural communities in Ekiti State are at the risk of an outbreak of diarrhoea and other diseases. This is due to an acute shortage of potable water in spite of the multi-million naira constituency borehole projects purportedly…
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By Ibanga Isine  AN investigation by The Next Edition, an online newspaper, has reported that Nigerian security operatives are significantly sabotaging the government’s efforts to eliminate Boko Haram as they aid the funnelling of huge…
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