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Ghost Bureaus: How Rogue Parastatals Expose the Rot in Nigeria’s Public Oversight

Obafemi Fawibe6 days ago6 days ago05 mins

The disclosure by the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) regarding the nationwide operations of an illegal, self-styled federal “Made-in-Nigeria” agency marks a disturbing milestone in the erosion of public administration. Operating under the name “National Brands Development and Made in Nigeria Special Project Office,” this fictitious parastatal was discovered soliciting funds from subnational governments, leasing…

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Nwabueze Fights Back With Papers As ICPC Presses Fake Agency Claim

Daniel Otera1 week ago04 mins

A widening anti corruption inquiry into fictitious government bodies has met a firm rebuttal from George Buchi Nwabueze, who maintains that the office at the centre of the latest scandal is a legitimate special project domiciled in the Presidency since 2010, and not the fake federal agency the authorities have described. Nwabueze, National Coordinator…

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ICPC Reopens Osun Files As N1bn Projects Face Fresh Scrutiny

Daniel Otera2 weeks ago04 mins

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission has turned its searchlight on Osun State, opening a fresh round of checks on more than N1 billion worth of federally funded projects, a move that places the state inside one of Nigeria’s largest and least understood accountability exercises. The commission’s tracking team lead, Mrs…

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PFIPC Scandal: FG Launches Forensic Audit

Daniel Otera2 weeks ago04 mins

A fake presidential council that carried a title, a director-general, an office inside the Presidential Villa complex and even a line in the national budget has forced the Federal Government to confront an uncomfortable question: how many other fictitious bodies are buried in the machinery of state? The Federal Executive Council has now ordered…

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SERAP Calls For Joint Probe Into Osun Election Violence, Vote-Buying Allegations

Daniel Otera2 weeks ago04 mins

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to conduct a joint investigation into alleged vote-buying, financial inducement, violence and other electoral offences recorded during Saturday’s Osun State governorship election. The demand…

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ICPC Uncovers 908 Ghost Workers in Police, Ministries

Augustine Nze1 month ago1 month ago02 mins

The federal civil service remains an elaborate cash machine for fraudsters. The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has uncovered nine hundred and eight suspected ghost workers across fifty government agencies. Anti-graft agents recovered nearly nine hundred and forty-two million naira in stolen salary payments. The Nigeria Police Force topped the list of…

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Reps Give MDAs 48 Hours As PFIPC Scandal Widens To Ministers, NSA

Daniel Otera1 month ago07 mins

A disputed agency that lawmakers say never legally existed has forced the Nigerian state to account for itself in real time, with the House of Representatives on Tuesday handing defaulting government offices a 48 hour ultimatum to produce documents and officials in a probe that has now drawn in two ministers, the National Security…

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Court Seizes N941.9m As IPPIS Ghost Worker Fraud Unravels

Daniel Otera1 month ago1 month ago05 mins

Nearly a billion naira that flowed for years into hundreds of bank accounts tied to workers who may never have existed now belongs to the Federal Government, after a Federal High Court in Abuja ordered the permanent forfeiture of N941,994,079.86 traced to an alleged ghost worker scheme buried inside the country’s central payroll…

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House Panel Opens PFIPC Budget Investigation

Daniel Otera1 month ago06 mins

The House of Representatives opens a formal inquiry today into how a council that the Federal Government insists never legally existed secured more than N1.3bn in the 2026 Appropriation Act, yet the two men at the heart of the controversy have not been called to testify, raising early questions about the reach and credibility…

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Certificate Trial: Nnaji Pleads Not Guilty, Freed On N20m Bail

Daniel Otera2 months ago03 mins

A once-prominent figure in President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet stood in the dock of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday, entering a not-guilty plea to a six-count charge that has placed the credibility of his academic record at the centre of a closely watched corruption trial. Uche Nnaji, former Minister of Innovation,…

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