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The  media team of the Atiku Abubakar campaign organisation has averred that corruption  become official since the Buhari administration took over. In a statement signed by Paul Ibe, Atiku’s spokesman, the team raised 10 questions for President Buhari. The statement read that the People’s Democratic Party Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, was taken aback last week when Mr. Babachir Lawal, Buhari’s former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, turned up at the Presidential Villa on Thursday, December 13, 2018, where he was received with pomp and pageantry. “Mr. Babachir Lawal attended the launch of the Together Nigeria organized by the Buhari Support Organization (BSO). It is a very sad day for Nigeria, when the President honours a man proven beyond all reasonable doubt to have soiled his hands with money meant for starving refugees. These are the actions which feed the perceptions that has made Nigeria turn in its worst ever Corruption Perception Index rating

The Director-General of the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), Dr Moddibo Kawu, and other officials of the agency are being investigated by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) over alleged fraud involving N2.5 billion. This was disclosed in a statement by the ICPC's spokesperson, Rasheedat Okoduwa, on Thursday, November 15, 2018. The anti-graft agency disclosed that the fund under probe was from a N10 billion grant released to the agency by the Federal Government in 2016 for a digital switch-over programme. The agency accused Kawu of engaging in corrupt practices through the process of awarding contracts for the handling of the programme. The statement reads, "The Presidency in 2016, released N10 billion to the Ministry of Information and Culture for the digital switch-over programme which entails migration of telephone lines from analogue to digital platforms and a White Paper was issued directing that the pr

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has filed fraud charges against the Akwa Ibom governor, Emmanuel Udom, and several members of his cabinet. Udom was charged in a case involving the president of the Nigeria Bar Association, Paul Usoro. The governor is however covered by constitutional immunity. Mr Usoro pleaded not guilty in a Federal High Court Lagos to charges bordering on N1.4 billion fraud, the News Agency of Nigeria reported. The EFCC preferred a 10-count charge against Mr Usoro, in a case before Justice Muslim Hassan. Also named in the charge is the incumbent governor of Akwa Ibom, Mr Udom, who is described in the charge as being “currently constitutionally immune from prosecution”. Others charged are: The Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Finance, Nsikan Nkan; Accountant-General of the state, Mfon Udomah; state Attorney-General, Uwemedimo Nwoko, and Margaret Ukpe. The cabinet members are said to be at large. In the charge marked FHC/418c/18, the