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The recent probe by the National Assembly has left millions of Nigerians in awe on the level of corruption in the Niger Delta Development Commission. What are your thoughts on what has been revealed so far?
My take is that the revelations that have come out of this probe are revealing on why the Niger Delta has been undeveloped or, at least, a greater part of the reasons why it has been undeveloped. It shows how the Presidency has undeveloped the Niger Delta because consistently, and I say this with all sense of responsibility, the NDDC has been the patronage machine of successive regimes in the Presidency for their own supporters or those who are good in their books. Recently, it has gone to the next level. You see the impunity with which people are even talking of how they spent public money and nothing has happened because crimes are committed and continue to be committed when nothing happens. So, when people start saying that they took over N1bn to take care of them
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Nigeria is currently losing an average of 200,000 barrels of crude oil daily, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation stated on Wednesday.
Brent, the oil against which Nigeria’s crude is priced, was $66.75 per barrel on Wednesday, while the official exchange rate of the dollar stood at 379/$.
From the above figures, it showed that the country was losing about N151.79bn in 30 days, going by the 200,000 barrels of crude oil being lost daily, as revealed by NNPC.
Group Managing Director, NNPC, Mele Kyari, disclosed the volume of crude oil lost daily in Nigeria while speaking at a meeting with the Chief of Defence Staff, Major General Lucky Irabor.
JUST IN: ICPC recovers $919,207 from Federal High Court Staff
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By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, on Thursday, said it has secured the final forfeiture of $919,202.07 fraudulently kept in an interest yielding bank account by some staff of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt.
The Commission, in a statement that was signed by its Spokesperson, Mrs. Azuka Ogugua, said it recovered the money from three Respondents that included the Chief Registrar and Deputy Registrar of the High Court, as well from a branch of a bank (name withheld) in Port Harcourt.
“In the course of investigating a petition written against some officials of the court for alleged violation of ICPC Act 2000, the Commission’s special investigation team uncovered the money, being the sum of confiscated, value and sold vessel hidden in a bank account.
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