Tag: Corruption
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PANDORA PAPERS: For 179 million pounds, 137 Nigerians acquire 233 U.K. properties
In the last three decades, at least 233 properties were bought by 166 offshore companies with a combined worth today of £350 million. Behind these companies were 137 influential Nigerians A Finance Uncovered graphic reveals a wave of cash flooding into London property from elite Nigerian politicians and business figures using offshore secrecy vehicles. The…
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Pandora Papers: Secret wealth and dealings of world leaders exposed
THE secret wealth and dealings of world leaders, politicians and billionaires has been exposed in one of the biggest leaks of financial documents. Some 35 current and former leaders and more than 300 public officials are featured in the files from offshore companies, dubbed the Pandora Papers. They reveal the King of Jordan secretly amassed…
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Pandora Papers: Uhuru Kenyatta family’s secret assets exposed by leak
THE family of Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta, that has dominated the country’s politics since independence, secretly owned a network of offshore companies for decades, according to a huge leak of financial papers. The Pandora Papers – 12 million files – is the biggest such leak in history. Mr Kenyatta and six members of his family…
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Pandora Papers: Global investigation exposes secrets of some of Nigeria’s rich and powerful
The Pandora Papers series is launching more than five years after the Panama Papers revelations of 2016. That investigation exposed offshore companies linked to more than 140 politicians in more than 50 countries. A new global investigation exposing the offshore hideaways of some of the world’s most powerful personalities is launching today after two years…
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Investigation: Millions disappear as National Human Rights Commission awards project to mysterious contractor in Jigawa
■ ALMOST a year since the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) awarded a multi-million-naira contract for the installation of solar street lights in Jigawa North-West Senatorial District, WikkiTimes can reveal that there is no evidence of the work or the contractors on the ground. The project was nominated by Senator Danladi Sankara, who represents Jigawa North-West…
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INVESTIGATION: Abia governor, others in multi billion naira budget scandal
■ AN analysis of the 2020 Report of Accountant General with Financial Statements of the Abia State Government has exposed questionable extra-budgetary expenditures in the Office of the governor, deputy governor, ministries of environment and solid minerals and the state’s environmental protection agency. Checks into the report also uncovered illegal loan procurement above N11bn by…
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Hushpuppi: U.S. prosecutors, Abba Kyari’s co-defendants ask for trial postponement
■ Prosecutors say Abba Kyari and two other defendants remain on the run. A United States court is considering postponing the trial date in the $1.1million fraud case involving Abba Kyari, a formerly celebrated Nigerian police officer, to 17 May , 2022. This is after U.S. prosecutors along with three of the six defendants and…
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National Assembly approves budget for non-existing Office of Chief Economic Adviser to President for the 6th time
■ THE non-existing Office of the Chief Economic Adviser (OCEAP) to President Muhammadu Buhari got N46.86 million in the 2021 budget approved by the National Assembly. This is the sixth time the non-existing office is getting a budget approval from both chambers of the National Assembly. The office, which clearly has no presidential appointee and…
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Buhari’s govt pays ex-militants N2.63bn as stipends in two months, data reveal
■ THE President Muhammadu Buhari’s government, through the Office of the Special Assistant to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, paid the sum of N2.63 billion to 10 different personal accounts between March and May 2021, daily payment data from the Open Treasury Portal (OTP) have revealed. Data obtained from the Office of the Accountant…
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