Tag: BRIBERY

Public officials received N721bn as bribes in 2023 – NBS 

Aminu Imam
NBS on bribe

No fewer than N721billion was received as bribe by Nigerian public officials in 2023, a new report by the National Bureau of Statistics, (NBS), has revealed. The report released on Thursday titled: “Corruption in Nigeria: Patterns and Trends”, said the N721bn paid in bribes amounts to about 0.35% of Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product, (GDP). The result was based on a survey conducted with the United Nations (UN) Office on Drugs and Crime. According to the survey, the average cash bribe was N8,284, an increase from an average of N5,754 in…

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Bribery Allegation: PDP NWC members return over N90m ‘mysteriously’ paid into bank accounts

Aminu Imam

There is palpable anxiety in the camp of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as four members of its National Working Committee (NWC) have allegedly returned monies reportedly credited to their bank accounts by the party leadership. The party officers, according to unconfirmed reports, are the Deputy National Chairman (South) Taofeek Arapaja; National Vice-Chairman (South), Chief Dan Orbih; National Vice Chairman (South-west), Hon. Olasoji Adagunodo, and National Women Leader, Prof. Stella Effah-Attoe. Recall that in recent weeks, there has been a crisis in the PDP over the insistence of allies of…

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Court sentences former Reps. member, Farouk Lawan, to 7 years in prison over $3m bribe

Aminu Imam

A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting in Apo, Abuja, has sentenced a former member of the House of Representatives, Farouk Lawan, to seven years imprisonment over the $3 million bribery charges preferred against him by the Federal Government. Lawan was the former chairman of the House’s Ad-hoc Committee on fuel subsidy, which was probing the multi-billion naira fuel subsidy fraud in 2012. He was accused of demanding $3 million from Femi Otedola to remove Zenon Petroleum and Gas Limited (Otedola’s company) from the list of oil companies allegedly…

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Prosecution pushing for jail time as Sarkozy bribery verdict awaited

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s verdict, in bribery and influence-peddling trial, is expected later today. The prosecutors are calling for him to be sent to prison for at least two years if found guilty. He is accused of trying, with the help of his legal adviser in 2014, to learn investigative secrets from Gilbert Azibert, then an advocate general at the Court of Cassation, regarding a separate investigation concerning campaign financing. In return, the ex-president is said to have offered to support the lawyer in applying for a post in…

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