The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed disclosed this on Friday in Abuja at a media briefing to mark the first anniversary of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term administration.
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The commission’s Director of Operations, Akeem Lawal, disclosed this during a virtual meeting of stakeholders on the topic: “COVID-19 Funds Management and Monitoring,” on Thursday.
The Federal High Court, Abuja on Thursday held that the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has powers to investigate allegation of certificate forgery against Okoi Obono-Obla.
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the interim forfeiture of Gravity FM, Igboho in Oyo State and some properties belonging to a former Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde.
The Adamawa State High Court sitting in Yola has sentenced a former Executive Secretary, Adamawa State Christian Pilgrims Welfare Board, Bishop Jingi Mayo, to five years imprisonment.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari urging him to use his leadership position to “urgently instruct the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to jointly track and monitor spending by federal agencies and state governors to combat coronavirus or COVID19 pandemic in Nigeria.”
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday frowned at the manner the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission was prosecuting a former Comptroller General, Nigeria Customs Service, Abdullahi Dikko.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission on Thursday arraigned the suspended Director-General, Securities and Exchange Commission, Dr. Mounir Gwarzo, in an FCT High Court in Apo.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission says it is investigating past audit reports on Ministries, Departments and Agencies released by the Auditor-General for the Federation.
The Oyo State Governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde, said on Thursday that his administration has started reaching out to former office holders in the state, who have been discovered to have withheld state’s resources, to return same or risk being reported to the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission.
To further improve the country’s business climate, there will now be a direct connection between the anti-corruption agenda of the Buhari administration and the reform efforts of the Federal Government in a bid to secure the reforms through criminal investigation and prosecution of public complaints.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission says the Director-General of the Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi, Dr. Chima Igwe, has not been awarded a PhD degree.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other offences Commission said it has uncovered how eight Universities and Teaching Hospitals padded their personnel budget with over N7 billion.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has urged the suspended Chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property, Okoi Obono-Obla, to appear and clear his name.
Rasheedat Okoduwa, spokesperson for the commission, disclosed this while briefing newsmen on the activities and achievements of the commission in the year under review.
PCL had in July 2018 dragged ICPC and Zenith Bank to court for unlawfully withholding its money domiciled in the bank without a valid court order.
Waheed Ishola, Lagos State Director of NOA, made the disclosure on Tuesday at an Interactive session organised by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project in partnership with the NOA and the Department for International Development.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has threatened legal action against 44 property owners, including two buildings in Abuja belonging to Pinnacle Communications Limited.
The former Vice Chancellor of Osun State University and Provost of the ICPC Anti-Corruption Academy, Prof. Sola Akinrinade, has joined the Board of Trustees of the Akin Fadeyi Foundation.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Com mission said the Transparency International report on Nigeria was unfair and untenable.