By JKNewsMedia AN INDEPENDENT civil society assessment has recognised the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) among notable federal institutions in public accountability and service delivery, alongside the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP). JKNewsMedia.com reports that the assessment, presented at a civ...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia PRESIDENT BOLA Tinubu has ordered a comprehensive forensic audit of Federal Government systems to uncover weaknesses exploited for fraud and strengthen controls across government institutions. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the President directed the Minister of Finance and Co-ordinating Minister of the Economy, M...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia, Report GOVERNMENT APPROVAL processes for the now-disowned Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) were allegedly facilitated by several civil servants who helped its director-general, Adeniyi Adeyemi, gain access to official financial and administrative systems, an interim investigation by t...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter THE ARREST of a businessman and the immediate suspension of three permanent secretaries have been ordered by President Bola Tinubu after the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) uncovered an alleged unauthorised government office operating within the premises of the...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter ECONOMIC FRAUD involving the purported Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC) has established that the agency never existed and that its alleged Director General, Adeniyi Adeyemi Mathew, was never appointed by the Federal Government or any government authority, Chairman of the Indepen...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter PAYROLL FRAUD involving 908 alleged ghost workers across at least 50 Federal Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies has been uncovered by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), cumulating to about N942 million believed to have been fraudulently paid as s...
By Kofoworola Fakeye, JKNewsMedia Reporter PRESIDENT BOLA Tinubu has directed the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to conduct a thorough investigation into the activities of a purported Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) and all related matters. JKNewsMedia.com reports that th...
By Ajibola Olaide, JKNewsMedia Reporter THE NIGERIAN Education Loan Fund (NELFund) has strongly denied reports alleging misappropriation and mismanagement of student loan funds, amid a clarification from the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) that no discrepancies have been established in the disburseme...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE “Corruption thrives where there is silence”– Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu, SAN. COMPARE THE above quote from Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu, the youthful Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), with the one often attributed to the 18th-century Irish philosopher, Edmund Burke, which s...
