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Truth at Last: How Facts, Law Cleared Kano’s DG of Protocol of Fraud Allegations

By The Insight Team August 29, 2025 329

mostbet pinup sekabet mostbet az mostbet mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet By Ismail Yahaya For weeks, the name of Abdullahi Ibrahim Rogo, the Director General of Protocol to the Kano State Government, has been dragged into public debate over alleged financial mismanagement said to involve billions of naira. Headlines and whispers painted him as the face of a scandal, with claims that N6.5 billion and another […]Continue Reading

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Yahaya Bello’s Alleged N80.2bn Fraud: How N1.09bn Vanished from Kogi Government’s Account in Three Days — Witness

By The Insight Team June 29, 2025 368

By The Insight A prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Adoza Bello, on Thursday, June 26, 2025, narrated before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, how a staggering ₦1,096,830,000 (One Billion, Ninety-Six Million, Eight Hundred and Thirty Thousand Naira) was withdrawn in just […]Continue Reading

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Ganduje as the devil’s advocate

By The Insight Team August 9, 2024 696

On Tuesday, July 16, 2024, The Kukah Centre, a social enterprise born by the cerebral Bishop Matthew Kukah, put together a conference that assembled political party chairmen and their organizing secretaries in one room. The venue was the glamorous and artistic Ladi Kwali Hall of the Abuja Continental Hotel, Abuja. The conference held a few […]Continue Reading

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Kukah Centre Report: Nigeria’s political parties running on sinking sand

By The Insight Team August 9, 2024 756

Key Points: Why smaller political parties lose those elected into parliament to bigger parties Most party members are ignorant of the philosophies, aims and objectives of their political parties Most parties do not have a database of their members Most parties do not have clear-cut strategies for attracting more members Staff members of most political […]Continue Reading

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Tinubu’s 12 long and short leap in first year

By The Insight Team June 17, 2024 826

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Olukoyede and the Renewed EFCC Agenda for Corruption Prevention

By The Insight Team February 12, 2024 526

By Godwin Onyeacholem Since Nuhu Ribadu, now National Security Adviser, it seems no executive chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has demonstrated a greater zeal to fight corruption in Nigeria than Ola Olukoyede, a lawyer and an insider who spent considerable time at the management level of the renowned anti-graft institution before […]Continue Reading

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Forex controversy: Dangote promises to help EFCC in its investigation

By The Insight Team January 8, 2024 514

By Emmanuel Kwada Management of Dangote Industries Limited has doused the concerns of stakeholders following the visit to its Head office in Lagos by officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) saying it was ready to assist the Commission in its investigations. The foremost indigenous conglomerate in a statement disclosed that it received […]Continue Reading

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Loan apps torment users in Nigeria despite being barred by government, Google

By The Insight Team July 18, 2023 2656

Key Points: Loan app operators still violate data privacy of borrowers despite government regulation App operators take advantage of unsuspecting, desperate borrowers Interest rates on the apps are extremely high Citizens must take their data privacy seriously Avoid patronizing loan sharks; report violators to relevant security agencies By Daniel Adaji Michael Adekunle, a Continue Reading

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[Explainer]: How did ‘Abacha loot’ happen? How are the recovered funds being spent?

By The Insight Team August 27, 2022 2023 Post a comment

Some persons who aided the looting under Abacha are still alive, walking freely in Nigeria; some holding and/or aspiring for high political positions today By Theophilus Abbah The phrase ‘Abacha loot’ entered into  global anti-corruption lexicon in the post-military rule in 1999, and it is used to describe the recovery of huge funds  in foreign […]Continue Reading

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5 Reasons Why Nigeria Scored Low on Corruption Perceptions Index 2020:

By The Insight Team February 4, 2021 770

  …What should be done to improve it The 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released globally by Transparency International (TI) recently has shown that Nigeria yet again, records a decline in the CPI in 2020. In the report published exclusively in Nigeria by the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), the National Chapter of TI, […]Continue Reading

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The Cost of Destroying Ibrahim Magu

By The Insight Team July 16, 2020 619

By Muni Williams On Monday, July 6, 2020, the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, a police commissioner, was finally arrested on the streets of Abuja, the Federal Capital of Nigeria. He was said to have been bundled unprepared to face an administrative panel of inquiry headed by a […]Continue Reading

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Magu and albatross around EFCC chairmen’s neck

By The Insight Team July 11, 2020 675

By Theophilus Abbah Nuhu Ribadu booted out, demoted (2008). Farida Waziri sacked! (2011). Ibrahim Lamorde removed, under probe (2015).  Ibrahim Magu arrested, detained, grilled (2019). With these fragmented statements and reads-on that scream from the headlines of dailies, each chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), was, with bleary eyes, Continue Reading