Monday, November 2, 2026

Anti-Corruption

December 5, 2023

Mauritania’s ex-President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz jailed five years for corruption, economic crimes

Mr Abdel Aziz led the West African country for a decade in a 2008 coup. He was an ally of Western powers fighting Islamist militants in the Sahel region.

Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz
December 5, 2023

Chinese director jailed 10 years for taking $2 million bribe

Mr Zhang was convicted of taking bribes worth over ¥16.47 million (about $2.32 million) by the Intermediate People’s Court of Deyang City, Sichuan Province.

CHINESE JAIL
December 5, 2023
Olamide Oladosu Shanu and his passport data page
December 4, 2023

Court remands Aliqea Group UAE GMD in Kirikiri for alleged N105 million fraud

Mr Abdulrasheed said the offences contravened the Criminal Code Act in Nigeria.

Special and Sexual offences court, Lagos
December 2, 2023

Olukoyede vows to refocus EFCC’s anti-corruption fight, prioritise staff welfare

Mr Olukoyede promised a paradigm shift in the agency’s approach to anti-graft war to make it more proactive and result-oriented.

Ola Olukoyede
December 2, 2023

Japan partners UNDP, others to tackle crime in Gulf of Guinea

Matsunaga noted that the Gulf of Guinea had been considered a global insecure route.

Gulf of Guinea
December 1, 2023

LASTMA sanctions 11 officers over corrupt practices

While 11 officers were found guilty of corrupt practices, one officer was exonerated with the panel’s report.

LASTMA officers
December 1, 2023

Reps accuse NCAA of hiding IGR, threaten to ensure MD’s removal from office

The committee said the abandoned recklessness in the nation’s domestic airlines was unprecedented.

House of Representatives and Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA)
December 1, 2023

EFCC seeks CSOs’ support in anti-corruption campaigns in rural areas

EFCC chair Ola Olukoyede has called on civil society organisations to join the agency in driving its anti-corruption campaigns to the grassroots.

Ola Olukoyede
December 1, 2023

‘Emerging judicial corruption’ undermining Nigeria’s democratic process, civil society warns

“Politics at all levels is currently marred by violence, persecution and intimidation and exclusion of women from active participation in electoral politics,” Mr Rafsanjani added.

Aural Rafsanjani and CISLAC