Indeed, corruption is endemic in Nigeria. Little wonder President Muhammadu Buhari has kept saying that if Nigeria does not kill corruption, corruption will kill Nigeria. And when he ran 2015 campaign on the mantra of ‘change’, he spoke about a government that would stop at nothing to fight corruption. Four years down the line, and…

While many countries were frequently re-configured by schismatic replacement of the old by the new order through earthquakes and wars, there are also evidences of continual world renewal and societal development across civilizations from inter-continental migration. But it appears that only black Africa experienced emigration of human and material resources as migrants from other continents…

On February 16th, Nigeria will hold a general election. Four years ago, the country experienced its first democratic transfer of power to the opposition since 1999. The vote in a few days will be no less significant.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday said that his administration would recover all looted public funds and deal decisively with perpetrators of corruption. Buhari made the declaration in Lagos while speaking at the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential rally. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the rally attracted a mammoth crowd of party faithful,…

…’the way that leads to future termination of corruption is the correction of past corruption, for when it is  known that those who cheated did not get away with it, prospective cheats should think twice before embarking on the negative venture’. -Wale Onyemakinde, the Guardian Newspapers of May 8, 1994. The recent directive by President…

A Federal High Court in Abuja has admitted evidence from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission showing how a former governor of Kano state Ibrahim Shekarau and two Others shared N950million bribe from former Minister of Petroleum Diezani Alison-Madueke. "Shekarau is standing trial along with Aminu Bashir Wali and Mansur Ahmed on a six-count charge…

Nigeria climbed four places on Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index for 2018. In Transparency International's report, Nigeria was ranked 144 out of 180 countries that were surveyed. In 2017, Nigeria was ranked four places lower sitting at 148 out of 180 countries. Despite the four place jump, the nation's 27/100 score shows no improvement as…

“Let's build this coalition. There is no more time to waste; let’s get to work.” Those were the expressions of intention contained in Mrs. Obiageli Katryn Ezekwesili’s statement announcing her exit from the 2019 presidential race. Even if it came as the first sign of anti-climax in the tumultuous and tensed Nigeria’s fifth general election…

The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has ordered an internal investigation into allegations the United Nations (U.N.) health agency is rife with racism, sexism and corruption. A series of anonymous emails containing the explosive charges were sent to top managers last year. The emails, addressed to WHO directors and obtained by the Associated…

Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, doubts the capacity of the All Progressives Congress (APC) federal government to fight corruption in the country. Ortom expressed this yesterday at Idekpa, Ohimini Council, while canvassing support for his re-election and that of other candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). According to the PDP gubernatorial candidate, the APC…

A South African former executive on Monday told a corruption probe that his old company had paid monthly bribes for years to a minister who served under scandal-tainted ex-president Jacob Zuma. Angelo Agrizzi, ex-chief operating officer of the Bosasa contracting company, has given days of bombshell testimony to a judicial commission probing allegations of government…

The Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has dismissed as a "cock and bull story" the allegation by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed that he has a case to answer over the collapse of Platinum Habib Bank, Bank PHB. He also condemned the bid by the…