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Ms Sadiku has had a troubled tenure after leaving a lucrative career as top investment banker to lead Nigeria's investment promotion agency.

Stakeholders have deplored decline in the standard of education in Nigeria. They also called for pragmatic steps at improvement, with a view to developing the economy.

Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, has said the insecurity challenges facing the country were triggered by the high level of corruption and an unstable economy.

The gathering didn’t fall short of expectation in any way. A healthy convergence of deep thinkers, men and women who nurse a noble vision of an improved society, driven by a focused leadership offering transparent and accountable governance, would offer no less. All through the ceremony, there were frank dissections of corruption, its harmful effects and how Akin and his wonderful team have been working from the grassroots… On Tuesday July 13, two separate events were going on at the same t...

Nigeria needs strong institutions and systems to effectively fight corruption and illicit financial flows (IFFs), Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC), Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, has canvassed. He made the call while delivering a lecture at the Executive Intelligence Management Course 14 of the National Institute for Security Studies in Bwari, Abuja. In his paper titled, “Governance, Corruption, Rule of Law and Security in Africa”, Owasan...

The Industrial Training Fund has taken it upon itself to de-escalate the surging poverty and unemployment rate in the country by consistently providing skills acquisition to equip the teeming unemployed Nigerians to stand on their feet. Seriki Adinoyi writes The World Bank recently gave Nigeria a worrisome rating on poverty index, disclosing that in the year 2020 alone, seven million Nigerians were pushed below the poverty line. Expectedly, this has generated reactions from many quarters, most ...

Disturbed by Nigeria’s myriad of challenges, former member of the House of Representatives, Prince Ned Nwoko and a lecturer in the English and Literature Department of the University of Benin...

Some Nigerian stakeholders have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to disclose spending details of all recovered funds for the past four years. DAILY

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III, has told President Muhammadu Buhari to explain to Nigerians what he did with recovered loot, urging anti-corruption agencies to be transparent. “Nigerians need (an) explanation on how much was recovered. Where is the money, and what are they doing with them? “This explanation is necessary […]

The Sultan, represented by the Wazirin Sokoto, Prof. Sambo Wali Junaidu, said keeping mute on the recovered loots would spell doom for the fight against corruption in the country. “The government owes Nigerians an explanation, we want to know how much billions of naira was recovered from our past leaders. Where the monies are and what are they doing with them? “This explanation is necessary considering the state of our education and other infrastructure like roads which need serious governm...