By Chidi Odinkalu Three important documents released in the past week – respectively from Nigeria’s federal government and two by respected international NGOs, Chatham House and OXFAM – separately offer important insights into why the present effort to fight corruption…
Press Release April 20, 2017 The African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL), a civil society organization currently engaged in a project (Corruption Anonymous) to support the Nigerian government’s whistleblower policy, has commended the momentum the policy has…
The Foreign Affairs Ministry is offering no explanation for its decision to flout a new government’s anti-corruption policy, by sacking a whistle blower who exposed an alleged $229,000 fraud. Ntia Thompson was fired after sending a petition to the Economic…
An official of Stanbic IBTC Bank, Ade Babatunde, on Monday told a Federal High Court, Lagos how Segun Agbolade, a former General Manager (Finance), Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, NAMA, allegedly defrauded the agency. Mr. Babatunde, while being led in evidence…
There was a twist on Monday in Lagos in the ongoing trial of Mohammed Belgore and a former Minister of National Planning, Abubakar Sulaiman, for alleged N450 million money laundering as the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, was…
March 13, 2017 The Head of Service of the Federation Office of the Head of Service, Federal Secretariat Complex, Abuja Dear Madam, A CALL FOR RE-INSTATEMENT OF A WHISTLE-BLOWER, MR. NTIA THOMPSON AND SUSPENSION OF MR. MOHAMMED KACHALLAH AND OTHER…