The General Manager of LASTMA, Olalekan Bakare-Oki, made the disclosure on Tuesday in Lagos.
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For the record, greed, and inefficiency are the twin evils and veritable grounds for corruption. At age 37, Betta Chimaobim Edu represented a vocal section of youths in this era. This generation is critically and sufficiently arrogant, with wishful expectations of the emergence of good leadership in the country.
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said its corruption survey is aimed at assessing the Federal Government’s fight against corruption.
A non governmental organisation, Defenders of Constitutional Democracy (DCD) has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to expedite action on the appointment of a substantive Auditor General for the Federation.
Presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the February 25 general election, Peter Obi, has urged Nigerian leaders to start working toward a country built on competence and commitment in the fight against corruption.
The Navy Holdings Limited (NHL) has dismissed allegations of corruption against its Executive Director, Operations, Commodore Gabriel Aligwe.
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), has declared that the fight against corruption should not be limited to the Federal Government and its agencies alone.
The Centre for Human Rights and Socio-Economic Justice has asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to speed up the investigation of its petition requesting the probe of Timipre Sylva, the immediate past Minister of State for Petroleum.
The Bauchi State Civil Service Commission (BSCSC), has terminated the appointment of two senior civil servants for alleged forgery and diversion of funds.
The Senior Pastor of Citadel Global Community Church, formerly known as the Latter Rain Church, Oregun, Lagos State, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has told President Bola Tinubu not to kill Nigerians but corruption.
The leaders of the organisations who said they had refused to be cowed into shelving their agitation for a genuine fight against corruption in Nigeria, said inasmuch as elected officials must account for their actions in office, they shared Matawalle’s view that the investigations must not be selective but all-embracing.
Musa said this during a one-day CSOs and Media dialogue on repositioning the defence and security sector, to strengthen democracy in Nigeria which recently held in Abuja.
The case stems from a contract for a gas project awarded by Nigeria in 2010 to Process and Industrial Developments Limited.
Owosanoye made the remarks during a sensitisation dialogue with traditional rulers, religious leaders and civil society organisations on Tuesday in Osogbo.
President Muhammadu Buhari came to power on a broom flight to clean up the much-noised miasma of corruption in the Jonathan administration. Settling in, the Buhari government quickly applied itself to pseudo-reformist proselytising. The government caterwauled over how the Jonathan administration magicked the public treasury into exclusive pockets. The biggest news headline at the time was — STOLEN $2.1bn ARMS FUND.
Insecurity and corruption were staples under the former administration. The Buhari administration rode on a messianic chariot to revise these malefactions. But these problems are still much alive today. In fact, they have been compounded by mass disaffection and ethnic tensions. Nevertheless, the government has raked in some significant dividends in infrastructure development and in whittling down brazen corruption.
NDN’s Deputy Director of Finance, Mrs. Vivian Iwuji, made this known in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Sunday.
According to the report, “Budget fraud, procurement fraud, embezzlement of funds among other illegal actions, lead to failure in the delivery of services including education, water and health. People living in poor neighbourhoods have suffered so much that they consider poor service delivery as being good enough.”
Wabba said this at a roundtable dialogue with labour, trade and other unions tagged ‘Positioning the unions as active drivers of anti-corruption in Nigeria’ in Abuja.
Dr. Benard Alkali, the Chairman of ICAN, Jos chapter and District Society in Plateau State, said this shortly after he was sworn-in on Friday in Jos.