Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, stated this in a statement in Abuja on Friday.
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A statement by Azuka Ogugua, spokesperson for ICPC said the international conference, which will hold both physically and virtually on Tuesday, 18th May and Wednesday, 19th May, 2021, is jointly organised by Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Inter-Agency Committee on Stopping IFFs from Nigeria, African Union Advisory Board on Corruption (AUABC), and the Coalition for Dialogue on Africa (CoDA).
James Sunday, spokesman of the Service, stated on Monday in Abuja that further screening of those shortlisted would begin on May 24, 2021 at no cost to the applicants.
NASU made this known in a statement by its General Secretary, Peters Adeyemi on Sunday in Abuja.
She said this at a Policy Dialogue on Corruption and Cost of Governance in Nigeria organised by the Anti-Corruption Academy of Nigeria (ACAN), the training and research arm of ICPC at the Commission’s headquarters in Abuja.
The Chairman of the FCT Branch of UNILAG Alumni Association, Aliu Akoshile, stated this when he led a delegation of new executive committee members of the Association on a courtesy visit to the ICPC Chairman, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, SAN.
The group said the petition written against it (by Adoke, through his lawyers) was a conscious attempt to bully it and divert public attention from the string of shady deals committed by top Nigerian officials in the celebrated OPL 245 scam.
Prof. Owasanoye made this revelation at a One-Day Stakeholders’ Dialogue on the Implementation of the National Ethics and Integrity Policy (North Central Zone), held at the Press Centre, Radio House in Abuja.
Owasanoye, who appeared before the Senate Committee on Finance, investigating the activities of revenue generating agencies of the government, in Abuja, told the Committee that ICPC has no retention powers over funds or assets recovered from corrupt people.
He made this known on Tuesday in Abuja while responding to questions from journalists at the end of a capacity building for ICPC investigators on investigating Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) held at the corporate headquarters of the Commission.
Senator Kwari stated this during the Senate Committee oversight visit to assess the Commission’s 2020, and first quarter 2021 budget performance, which also aimed to acquaint them of challenges facing the Commission.
Under the joint cooperation arrangement, the ICPC is to set up a special extractive industry desk while NEITI is to feed the desk with information and data on extractive industry revenue process abuses, lapses and corruption issues.
The Secretary to the commission, Prof. Musa Usman Abubakar who received the President of the institution, ESV. Emmanuel Okas Wike and his team on behalf of the commission recently described the partnership as a welcome development.
The Senate Committee chaired by Senator Mathew Urhoghide hinged the query on the 2018 Auditor General report which is being considered by the lawmakers.
PremiumTimes reports that his close friends said that he was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia, an aggressive cancer of the blood.
The Sultan made this statement during the plenary session of the 12th General Assembly of NCTRN which took place on Monday in Kano, after a presentation of the policy to the Council by the ICPC Chairman, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, SAN.
It has been described as the misuse of entrusted power or a dishonest use of one’s office or position for personal gain. It is a cancerous global phenomenon, which has continued to cripple the developmental efforts of Nigeria.
Owasanoye gave this warning during a meeting with the Forum of Directors of Finance of Federal Hospitals convened by the Budget Office of the Federation to review a position paper presented by the Forum on the challenges of the implementation of the 2021 Budget in Abuja.
Obono-Obla, who is a former Chairman of the disbanded Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), was also charged with failure to honour ICPC invitation.
Azuka Ogugua, ICPC spokesperson, in a statement, on Wednesday, in Abuja, said Ojerinde was arrested on March 15, in Abuja, by operatives of the commission.