Hain made this known on Monday in his submission to the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture.
HSBC, Standard Chartered, and India’s Bank of Baroda, as well as their senior directors, were “directly culpable” in the looting of South Africa’s treasury under Zuma.
The British lawmaker was invited to give evidence because he had already named several corporates he was investigating under parliamentary privilege …
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister for Justice, Abubakar Malami, (SAN) has unveiled new guidelines for the implementation of the National Anti-Corruption Strategy 2017-2021.
The new guidelines which came into effect on October 24, 2019 stated that all ministries, departments or agencies and committees seeking to conduct, organize or host programs on the fight against corruption must seek and obtain clearance of the justice minister.
Similarly, all ministries, departments and agencies and committees must seek and obtain clearance of the minister on donor assisted project.
The Minister of Justice is empowered under Paragraph 5.0 of the National Anti-com1ption …
If the trial takes place, it would be the first time Zuma faces a court on graft charges, despite a string of accusations over his long political career.
But in the latest twist to a 15-year-old judicial saga, prosecution spokeswoman Natasha Kara told AFP: “I can confirm that Mr.
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There is this question that always lingers in my mind, and I try as much as possible to find answers, internally. The challenges facing our country are issues that we discuss in our everyday engagements with families, friends, colleagues and acquaintances. The challenges are many; we have the challenges of insecurity, religious extremism, poor infrastructure, cross-border crises and economy, etc. When President Muhammadu Buhari came to power in 2015, the issues he promised to tackle are the challenges of insecurity, corruption and to revamp the economy.
One troubling challenge is corruption. Corruption is virtually found in the citizens everyday life; …
The Ghana Football Association (FA) on Friday named a new president more than a year after a corruption scandal forced a major shake-up of the game in the West African nation.
Kurt Okraku — chief executive of local Premier League club Dreams FC – filled the position left vacant since Kwesi Nyantakyi stepped down after an undercover documentary showed him soliciting kickbacks worth millions of dollars.
Okraku got the nod from the 120 delegates after beating former FA vice president George Afriyie at the second round of voting.
The expose by journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas rocked football in Ghana …
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has insisted that only a few countries in the world can claim to have a low level of corruption, but that none is in Africa.
Osinbajo spoke yesterday in Abuja at the launch of the FLAG’IT App by the Akin Fadeyi Foundation.
Represented by the Special Adviser to the President on Rule of Law, Office of the Vice President, Fatima Waziri-Azi, the vice president explained, “The 2019 Global Corruption Barometer on African citizens’ views and experiences of corruption highlights that while most of the people surveyed in 35 countries felt that corruption had increased in their …
Zuma, who is accused of taking bribes from French defence company Thales in the 1990s, sought to have the case permanently dropped in March this year on the grounds that it was politically motivated.
But the trial is expected to begin on Tuesday after High Court judge Willie Seriti ruled that Zuma’s “application for the permanent stay is dismissed with costs”.
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The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Tanko Muhammad, has declared that he has zero-tolerance for corruption and expressed the readiness of the National Judicial Council (NJC) to investigate and sanction judges across the country, who indulge in acts that are incongruent with judicial norms.
The CJN, who is also the Chairman of the NJC, advised any aggrieved member of the public offended by the conduct of any judicial officer to forward a petition to the legal body for appropriate action, saying his administration has zero-tolerance for corruption within the judiciary.
The CJN’s position is coming as the opposition …
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may be heading for crisis as the Rivers State Governor, Mr. Nyesom Wike, wednesday berated the committee set up by the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the main opposition party to investigate the emergence of Hon. Ndudi Elumelu as the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives against the wish of the party, describing the committee as the most corrupt in the history of PDP.
Speaking in Port Harcourt wednesday, Wike also hailed a former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Austin Opara, for withdrawing from the committee.
The governor said that …
The Secretary-General of INTERPOL, Jurgen Stock on Monday met with the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu to explore partnership on how to fight corruption.
Stock said since corruption breeds terrorism, the anti-graft war must be sustained.
He commended the zeal and concerted efforts of the EFCC in ridding Nigeria of all forms of economic crime, and stressed that partnership between INTERPOL.
He said: “Working with the EFCC will help in building a strong network in the fight against corruption across the globe.
