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In Athens, 510 BC, Cleisthenes instituted democracy to foster greater: accountability of institutions and leaders to citizens and the law. Today, the tenet is being flouted with impunity, especially in developing nations, where most of the heads of parliament are puppets of the president. Nigeria tops the list. While her legislature is failing in oversight and overlooking misconducts, that of the United States (US) prosecuted President Donald Trump and almost removed him from office. This piece evaluates the two countries legislative conduct, based on the proceedings of Trump’s impeachment trial.

Process and History of US and Nigerian President Impeachment

Article II, section 4 of the US Constitution empowers Congress – comprising the House of Representatives and Senate – to remove the president from office for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. The House and Senate gets to remove the president in two separate trials. First, the House would deliberate and approve the articles of impeachment through a simple majority vote.

The second trial occurs in the Senate, where conviction on any of the articles requires a two-third majority vote, which if gotten, results in the president’s removal from office. Trump’s impeachment succeeded in the House, but failed in the Senate, denoting he remains president. Only three presidents has been impeached throughout US over 230 year old democracy. First, Andrew Johnson was impeached in 1868 for violating the Tenure of Office Act.

Then, Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998 for perjury, obstruction of justice and having an inappropriate relationship with White House intern, Monica Lewinsky. Lastly, Donald Trump was impeached December 2019. Each of the three – Johnson, Clinton and Trump – escaped removal from office through Senate’s acquittal. Impeaching Nigeria’s president is a difficult, almost impossible task. The lengthy, extremely cumbersome process is contained in Section 143 of the 1999 Constitution. No Nigerian president has been impeached, despite their gross incompetence and serial abuse of power.

Allegations against Trump and the Buhari Comparison

Trump’s impeachment trial was a straight confrontation between the ruling Republican, and opposition Democratic Party. The president was tried on two articles of impeachment for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The abuse of power bothers on alleged solicitation of foreign interference in the 2020 US presidential election. Trump allegedly withheld $391million aid to Ukraine; upon which he secretly pressurized President Volodymyr Zelensky (of Ukraine) to start investigating former US vice-president Joe Biden for Corruption.

Trump only released the aid to Ukraine after a whistle-blower complaint. Biden was ex-president Barrack Obama’s deputy and currently one of the Democratic Party’s presidential aspirant. Trump wants Biden and son, Hunter investigated for alleged corrupt practices during the Obama presidency’s (2009-2017) aid supply to Ukraine. The US president allegedly pressured his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate Biden, despite being aware that the US Prosecutor General had cleared him and his son of corruption in May 2019.

To ensure Biden is investigated, Trump allegedly refused to allow Zelensky visit the White House at a time Ukraine urgently needs the meeting to send fears to its aggressors – particularly Russia – that it has US backing. The Democrats insist Trump undermined US interests by his action, and must be removed for conditioning congressionally mandated aid on ‘quid pro quo’ – meaning ‘favor for favor.’ Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari is an adherent of ‘quid pro quo.’ His declaration that the Northern region, which gave him 95% votes would be favored than the Southeast that gave him 5% is ‘quid pro quo’ – conditioning governance favoritism on votes; favor for favor. Presidents are expected to govern with equity and fairness, but Buhari promised sectionalism and delivered as pledged.

The proscription of IPOB, while killer herdsmen are operating unchecked, apparently because they’re among the 95% is a dangerous ‘quid pro quo’ adherence that can lead Nigeria into another civil war. Aside Trump’s hold on aid, the second article of impeachment – obstruction of Congress – bothers on the president’s deliberate blockage of formal legislative inquiries. Trump allegedly instructed all government officials to ignore House subpoenas for testimonies and documents. He ensured no piece of paper or email was turned over to the House. Certainly Trump would have done worse if he’s a Nigerian. If Trump is a Nigerian president, he would have ordered the police to lay siege on US House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi’s residence as President Buhari repeatedly did to former Senate President Bukola Saraki. Pelosi would have been distracted with false asset declaration charges till she’s acquitted by the Supreme Court. The Dino Melaye’s in her camp would have been hounded and arraigned on several trumped-up charges. If Trump is a Nigerian president, masked, heavily-armed State Security Service (SSS) operatives would have obstructed the legislators from entering the chambers to carry out impeachment. The Democrats resolve to impeach Trump is perhaps comeuppance, but certainly an insult to Nigerians. The same legislators rebuking Trump supported Obama’s interference in Nigeria’s 2015 presidential election. The poll, as Obama desired, resulted in the first-in-history defeat of then incumbent president, Goodluck Jonathan.

It is at best surprising, and at worst annoying that the same Democrats who backed Obama’s action on Nigeria are scolding Trump for trying to aid his win through foreign interference. How miserable for them to live with their own nemesis! Unlike the US, foreign interference in Nigerian elections attracts no legislative criticism, let alone impeachment. Nigerian legislators took no action when two state governors from Niger Republic crossed into Nigeria to join Buhari’s 2019 reelection campaign in Kano State.
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It was, not just a center for Women Development. No! It was a reminder. It was the tree planted over Maryam Babangida’s memory, the late wife of former Military Head of State, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida who died at the age of 61 from ovarian cancer on 27 December, 2009 in a Los Angeles, California hospital.

It was home to the souls of hundreds of Asaba people, lined up by the Nigerian Army at River Niger’s bank in the Cable Point Area, torn into pieces with machine guns and their corpses carried away by the river. Leaving blood on the Niger! It was a vestige to the thousands of men, who dug three large graves on the order of the Nigerian Army, led by Col. Murtala Mohammed, Major Ibrahim Taiwo, and Major Osaigbovo Ogbemudia, October 7, 1967 at Ogbeosowa Square, ordered to enter the graves, and shot dead. The Asaba Massacre! A catalogue of butchery unending.

It was gory. “Adaobi, a 16-year-old virgin, set aside by the gods, to serve as Priestess to the River Niger was raped by three Nigerian soldiers, to death. Four-year old infants like Felix and Alphonsus Nwajei were forced to join the men, as they faced the firing squad. Babies were yanked away from their mothers’ breasts. Their heads were bashed against concrete bitumen tar. Their little bodies strewn under and rolled over by the monstrous tyres of the...

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In the concluding part of our expose on Delta State LG Chairmen, who drives luxury cars but allowed their Vice Chairmen to enter motorcycle to work, we bring to you the tales of sorrows in the various LGs, where this is practiced and how they are denied inclusion against the act setting up the LG.

Part 1, Section 56, Sub Section 1 of the Local Government law of 2017 (as amended) stipulates that : There shall be a cash budget committee comprising of the Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary, supervisors, HPM, and Treasurer to the LG which shall sit over the income and expenditure of council and authorize release of funds for approved items of expenditures.

Section 72, Sub Section 8 of the Local Government law makes provision for the composition of the Police/Community Relations Committee (PCRC) with the Vice Chairman as Chairman of the Committee. The committee performs the function relating to security in their various councils. The Chairman heads the well funded peace and security committee.

In gross violation of the law, most LG Chairmen travel for a period of two weeks or more without handing over to their deputies. The two laws above have been broken by most Chairmen.

We hereby reel out the happenings in the remaining LGAs.

Sapele: The Chairman, Eugene Inoaghan is lord of the manor, with the deputy turned to a complete dummy. While he enjoys the perks of office, his Vice Chairman flags down keke to take him to the council in...

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In recent times, embarking on white elephant projects in Akwa Ibom has become a relay race where one leader hands over the baton to another with the Ibom Tropicana Entertainment Center a visible evidence on how Akwaibomites have over the years being politically scammed by two successive administrations all in the guise of creating employment for the teeming youths while washing millions of Naira down the drain yearly.

Despite the hype which surrounded the project from its inception and its alleged commissioning by Senator Godswill Akpabio; the then state governor of Akwa Ibom in company of the current Governor Emmanuel Udom who was then Secretary to the State Government (SSG), the building which has seen more than N120billion pumped into it with little or no income generated we learned will be gulping another N500,000,000 from the N597.735 billion 2020 budget christened budget of Industrialization for Poverty Alleviation Phase II by the Udom led administration.

Sitting atop 168 hectares of land in Uyo, the state capital, the white elephant project has a 14-floor storey building meant for a...

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With many Nigerians still bickering over the possible effects of the recent increase in the Value Added Tax (VAT) rates from 5.0 to 7.5% by the Federal Government and its implementation by various sectors of the country’s economy, some officers of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has decided to cash in on the juicy opportunity to rack in more funds into their private coffers as sources has decried the release of a document recommending an upward review of the local Airfare rates.

The internal memo as seen by SecretReporters released from the office of General Manager, Corporate and Strategic Operation Engr. Adeiza Adams Jatto dated 24th January 2020, with reference number HQ/GM/C&SC/OP/VF/045, read “The division has observed the recent hike in the prices of Local Tickets across the country, in view of the above and in order to keep abreast with the reality of our times, it is hereby recommended that the rates for the local flights be revised upwards accordingly as detailed below”.

The revised airfare rates from the document show that for a multi-leg flight from Lagos to Abuja then back to Lagos, the sum of N250,000 was...

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Corruption is a form of dishonesty or criminal offence undertaken by a person or organization entrusted with a position of authority, to acquire illicit benefit or abuse power for one’s private gain.

This should probably be told to Mr Femi Fani-Kayode who has joined the bandwagon of political pilfers who do not break a sweat in diverting public funds for personal aggrandizements.

Information available to SecretReporters reveals that Mr Femi Fani-Kayode, popularly known as ‘FFK’ having been equipped with the pros and cons of public funds diversion while he served under former President Olusegun Obasanjo, allegedly diverted a jaw-dropping N4,600,000,000 (Four Billion Six Hundred Million Naira) from the coffers of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) into his private pocket while he was Minister of Aviation under the former President Goodluck Jonathan led administration.

Sources revealed that in 2015, FFK who was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in 2016, in a bid to sway anti-corruption agencies into believing that the N4.6billion was meant for...

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“A public office holder shall not except where he is not employed on a full‐time basis, engage or participate in the management or running of any private business, profession or trade.” section 6(b) of the Code of Conduct Act.

Born in July 1949 in Katsina State without any work experience outside the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Abubakar Lawal Yar’adua who joined the NNPC as a member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) at the Kaduna Refinery and Petrochemical Company KRPC, in 1976, proved to be an expert in flouting the rules of sections of the fifth schedule as contained in the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as amended during his days as Group Managing Director (GMD) of the company.

Mr Abubakar after his appointment as the GMD of NNPC in August 2007 according to investigations turned the Corporation into his...

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As the tenure of the local government Chairmen in Delta State ends this year, this medium can report authoritatively that most of them ran their various councils like demigods, without carrying their Vice Chairmen along as stipulated in the constitution.

Fact findings by SecretReporters revealed that most of the Vice-Chairmen do not have an official car since they assumed office. We gathered reliably that they use tricycle popularly called Keke to their offices while some enter motorcycles. In the face of this, the Chairmen live larger than life, acquiring properties and driving exotic cars.

Reports from various councils unveil the various number two citizens living in misery, pains, tales of untold hardship and unfavourable condition of service. They are not included in cash budget committees, not allowed to perform any executive responsibility, poor remuneration, non-payment of allowances and entitlements to them and non-inauguration of PCRC Committee which they are meant to head.

On getting to office, the Chairmen pulled out N22.5 million each to buy themselves cars in the entire LGAs, which they are taking home after the end of their tenure. This was not given to most Vice, despite being a joint ticket as done for...

It has been days since Hon Emeka Ihedioha was felled by the final judgment of the Supreme Court, which also saw to the ascendancy of Hope Uzodinma as Governor of Imo State. No doubt, the judgment generated a lot of controversies, largely because a lot of people could not understand the reasoning behind the judgment.

Yet, the truth is that people could not understand simply because the reasons were not yet known at the time of delivery of the judgment. But now that the Supreme Court has released its 45-page reasons for the judgment, it appears that the judgment was not supposed to be as controversial as it was, and a lot of minds will as soon be changed in favor of the judgment.

After reading through the reasons for the judgment, almost everybody (lawyers and laymen) will agree that if anything went wrong, it went wrong with INEC’s failure to proactively disprove the 388 polling unit results rendered by...

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Fejiro Oliver

“Many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivereth them all”. Those wordings from the bible has played out time and time again in the life of Nigeria’s Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, right from when he decided to step his feet as a contestant into the political terrain.

In his political baptism of fire, he has been beaten severally but never gave up, wounded like a soldier of Christ but soldiered on. He has always had his eyes to the goal, which is to place the Urhobo ethnic nationality on the map of the national stage. In all these, he knew he can never do it alone without the help of others and when the time was ripe, he sought alliance with his friends from the North, West and East to make it possible.

They aligned with his interest and helped him secure the position of the Deputy Senate President, which today some evil elements are fighting. But who fights God’s anointed and win? For weeks, enemies of our country especially those who feel they must control the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) have started a proxy war, engaging charlatans who parade themselves as factional executives of the irrelevant National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) that hopes to draw funding from the NDDC.

While they make unsubstantiated allegations against the office of the DSP, His Excellency has chosen to keep mute, knowing that it is part of the dirty politics we play in Nigeria.

While the sponsors and their urchins run amok just to desecrate the Deputy Senate President, they forgot to put into...

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Mandated with a task of carrying out forensic audit from 2001 till date, the Ag Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr Joi Nunieh may have to prove her forensic skills with an NYSC forgery scandal dangling over her head having spent just three months in office as sources in the commission squealed that the heat over her eligibility to head the NDDC is gradually building up.

SecretReporters learnt that though as a practice, all appointees of critical government institutions are under obligation to submit their credentials to the Department of State Security (DSS) and the Force Intelligence Bureau (FIB) for proper vetting and confirmation before officially resuming duties, but some slacks were cut for the acting NDDC Boss Joi Nunieh as she allegedly could not present a valid NYSC discharge or exemption certificate.

According to sources in the know, when the Federal Government in August last year announced the appointment of a new Board for the NDDC, all the nominees were invited to the FIB Headquarters in Garki, Abuja for vetting in line with practice.

Joi Nunieh who was then the nominee as State Representative for Rivers State with other Board Nominees reported to the FIB office on the...

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It is said that delay in the dispensation of justice is tantamount to its denial; sadly, this has become a tool used by politicians to evade prosecution as most are known to employ various tactics to wittingly delay the carriage of justice until a favourable government who will declare them acquitted or overlook their corrupt practices gets into power.

This is the exact strategy employed by Senator Abdulaziz Nyako who represented Adamawa Central in the 8th Assembly after resigning from the Nigerian Navy perhaps seeing how wealthy his father Rtd Admiral Murtala Nyako who was a former Governor of Adamawa State has become due to alleged nefarious corrupt practices while in government.

Despite series of arraignments by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) since 2015 with the recent being a...

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Following the tumultuous manslaughter that has characterized the Northeastern part of Nigeria and the reaction by the country’s military to these acts of terrorism, it’s no wonder so many stones are being upturned by the present administration to curb the incidences of terrorist attacks across the country with the far Northeasterner State of Borno being at the forefront of it.

This development led to thorough investigations by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commissions (EFCC) into the activities of the military and their bosses in the various arms. After the scandal that followed the arrest of a former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, the Nigerian Air Force was not left out as the former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu (Rtd.) on January 27, 2016, was arrested and detained by the EFCC over allegations of corruption in arms procurement during his tenure as Chief of Air Staff.

Amosu who was appointed by former President Goodluck Jonathan served as the Chief of Air Staff (CAS) between 2014 to 2015, a period that was heralded by the activities of the dreaded Boko Haram terrorist group thus leading to the increase in combat activities for the Nigerian Air Force for which arms had to be procured for effective Air support combat activities.

SecretReporters learned from sources that the CAS leveraged on this situation and allegedly used the guise of arms procurement to...

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Money they say is the root of all evil but at the same time, it is best to have some. It’s no surprise a great number of politicians do everything within their power to make more money while serving the people they were called out to represent. If taking money meant for the betterment of the people is the way to make this money, then surely for these politicians that would be the perfect way to go about it.

This narrative applies to the Senator representing Benue North-East Senatorial district Gabriel Torwua Suswam who while serving as Governor of BENUE STATE between 2012 and 2015 was alleged to have conspired with Omodachi Okolobia (a former commissioner of finance in the state) and Janet Aluga (a former accountant of the Benue State Government House Administration) to divert a jaw-dropping sum of N9.7Billion meant for Subsidy reinvestment and empowerment program(SURE-P) and a small fraction for fictitious Police Reform Program in the state.

SecretReporters uncovered that using the Sure-P scheme set up by former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration as cover following the...

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It is general knowledge that drug cartels are one of the most coordinated in the world with top guns retaining positions of power for donkey years while oppositions are met with brutal resistance; however, this may no longer be true today as it appears that a cartel within the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), has doubtlessly overtaken them.

SecretReporters gathered that the Lagos State branch of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has become a cartel or cult as every leadership position during elections are specially reserved for pharmacists who are either members of the cartel or those who may have signed a pact to always do the bidding of the cabals running the society turned cartel.

This was unearthed following a post made by a member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) Lagos State branch who revealed that having encouraged his friend Jeremiah Babasanmi, to pick a form to contest during the forthcoming 2020 election of executive committee members, he was perplexed that his friend was denied access to...

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Shielded for four years from prosecution from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the current Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Mohammed already had his plans set out at dawn, right from when he was made the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

Smart, cunning and crafty, Bala knew that what money cannot buy, more money can buy and that includes getting himself free from persecution and prosecution from the powers that be.

Knowing that power is transient and its lure appealing for men of easy virtues like him, he pilfered the national treasury not just for himself but to also settle people when the long arms of the law come calling. And truly, his projection came to pass when he left office. But first of all, what made him so powerful and influential that he is alleged to own over a hundred properties in Abuja spread across the city?

The former FCT Minister was the Chairman of the board of directors of the lucrative Aso Savings and Loans but also in charge of the Abuja Geographical Information System (AGIS) which is in charge of all the lands in Abuja. SecretReporters sources in EFCC disclosed that with these two juicy government bodies under his nose, his pen wreaked havoc on the city and in turn public funds as he allocated lands to himself and associates while bending the board of Aso Savings and Loans to do his bidding. Confidential sources within the commission in their investigation pegged the Bauchi Governor as owning properties worth $2,739,726,027,00 which is over N1 trillion, all acquired in the space of 2010-2015.

Most of these funds were acquired and laundered in collaboration with his jobless 23 years son, Shamsudeen Bala, who is now 26 years. As FCT Minister, sources disclosed that he got the two bodies he heads to allocate to him lands under the ‘Green Areas’ plan in Maitama to himself and four fully detached duplexes and eleven semi-detached duplexes valued at $860,000 which is locally converted to be N309.6 million.

The EFCC has also alleged that a whooping sum of N550 million was collected as bribe from Aso Savings and Loans in exchange for his political goodwill concerning some properties in Asokoro.

His case with EFCC

Arraigned by the anti-graft commission and properties forfeited in the interim with most of them, not in the public domain, SecretReporters can report that the former Senator turned governor lied to the public about the properties which were...

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In leaked audio, Transport Minister, Rotimi Amaechi disclosed how he convinced Buhari to borrow $30billion. Amaechi in the tape said Buhari said they would go ahead and borrow and Nigerians can say whatever they like.

President Buhari also promised to go to jail on Amaechi’s behalf, according to Amaechi in the leaked tape.”I wake up in the morning pushing for…I call people on the phone, I look for money.

It is not my job to look for money, it is the job of the Minister of Finance but I get out…I went to Russia to look for money, I brought the letter given to me by the company and I give it to the President and I am writing to the Minister of Finance…Because if we can get…And I like the President’s disposition. He said let’s borrow it, they can say whatever they like. When we finish…Once we are borrowing for infrastructure and we finish developing< Amaechi, don’t worry, I will go to jail on your behalf, you won’t go to...

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She breaths luxury and lives royal, a true living of the baby girl’s life.

She spares no fool when she’s in her element to spend money on the good things of life and that includes choice of properties across the world.

Such is the grandeur lifestyle of Senator Stella Oduah who represents Anambra North in Nigeria’s upper legislative chambers, who should have been sweating under the interrogative hands of the disbanded Special Panel for Investigation, Prosecution and Recovery of Public Properties, headed by Okoi Obono-Obla.

Property acquisition drives her crazy, such that her days as the Minister of Aviation saw her satisfy this insatiable taste to own them and she did own them, in the United Kingdom, as confirmed by the UK Fraud office to the defunct SPIP.

One of the properties discovered to be owned by her is located in...

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Mixed reactions have been trailing the viral video in which the governor-elect of Bayelsa State Mr David Lyon was seen celebrating an acclaimed award he received from an unidentified organization as “the best governor of the year 2019.” “I am not even used to receiving awards,” he said amidst applause from his supporters while attributing the award to God. Having contested on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2019 Bayelsa State governorship election, Lyon was declared the winner of the poll by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday, November 18 2019. Nigerians especially those on various social media platforms has criticized the video with many alleging that the award was a false claim by the governor-elect while others believe that the oil-rich state dubbed to be the “Glory of all Lands” may be in for a misty ride for the next four years with David Lyon who will be

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There’s an ongoing fight within Obiano’s cabinet and it’s a no holds barred and very messy fight involving Dr Christian Madubuko, the current Commissioner for transport in one part, and Uchenna Okafor “Wiper”, who is the commissioner for commerce and industry, and Osodietipia in another part.

Dr Christian Madubuko is accusing Wiper and Osodietipia of swindling Anambra state to the tune of billions of naira, and that they are the reason why Anambra’s IGR is spiralling downwards on daily basis, he even provided account numbers and how much was lodged into them.

“Within six months, a whopping three billion, six hundred thousand Naira was lodged in his access bank account number 0023xxxx65. Another eight hundred million is lodged in his fidelity account number 616xxxx25.”

He further accused Wiper of holding 3 portfolios as commissioner in the state under the supervision of Osodietipia. In his words, Dr Madubuko wrote: “As at today, Hon. Okafor is the substantive head of Anambra Internal Revenue Service, commissioner for Commerce and Industry and the commissioner for transport because he has not handed over the...

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Politics they say is a dirty game, a real house of cards where one involved needs to know the rules of the game or end up being played and thrown to the dogs.

New participants of politics should know who and who to get in bed with and who not to offend and that is simply the case of Hon. Maria Ude Nwachi, the former Ebonyi state female legislator popularly called ”Afikpo chick”, whose only crime was contesting and winning an election from an opposition party.

The former legislator was a lawmaker in the Ebonyi state House of Assembly, representing the people of Afiikpo North-east having won the seat during the 2015 general elections and sworn in on the 6th of June, 2015 the same year. Her victory was a win for the people as her people and constituency stood their grounds and voted en-masse for her.

However, her stewardship quickly became a drama filled one following her suspension from the House for allegedly sponsoring protests demanding for the restoration of electricity in her town having experienced total blackout for almost 3years, this was quickly followed by another suspension for “being a photographer” which according to some of her colleagues brought...

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While the initiative by the Akwa Ibom State government to establish a Christmas Village during the yuletide season has been lauded by residents of the State, the Commissioner of Culture and Tourism Mr Orman Esin has decided to cash in on this to divert funds meant for the payment of artists who performed from dusk to dawn at the village to his private pockets.

Despite receiving Millions from the State government for the event, in what can be described as an in-born trait of using and dumping individuals who work for him without pay, Mr Orman in connivance with his mushroom Committee cunningly cajoled the artists who were selected via the audition to sign a form agreeing to perform for free at the event.

“So the Ministry got Millions to pay artistes for #XmasCarnival & afterwards his useless Committee printed “CONSENT FORMS” for artistes to fill. Now listen, if you filled that Consent Form accepting to perform free, you are a...

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If everything is to go by the books, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Unity Bank Plc, Mrs Oluwatomi Somefun may end up behind prison bars for allegedly flouting orders made by a court.

This is evident in a motion filed by 25 ex-staff of the bank who were favored in a monetary judgment by the Lagos division of the National Industrial Court Nigeria (NICN). According to the motion filed on December 2, 2019, Unity Bank Plc we learned, was in defiance to the orders made by the court on November 12, 2019.

An act which can be punishable by imprisonment as it was a direct disregard of valid and extent court orders.

Findings by SecretReporters revealed that the crux of the matter was a judgment on July 3, 2019 in a suit marked NICN/LA/84/2019 in which Justice R. H. Gwandu after being presented with the case of alleged non-payment of...

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As the days go by, more stories are beginning to emerge on the saga that has engulfed the Federal Inland Revenue Service with the departure of Babatunde Fowler whose request for a tenure elongation was turned down, before he controversially handed over to Mr Abiodun Aina whom unionist in the service also claim is not the most qualified and therefore not eligible to be appointed the Chairman in acting capacity.

Few days after Aina’s appointment, a letter addressed to the Honorable Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed seeking for absolute power to run the affairs of the service surfaced.

Little was it known that the new man at the helm of affairs at the revenue headquarters had an ace up his sleeve as he has dished the first blow by suspending the recruitment exercise initiated by his embattled predecessor Mr Babatunde Fowler.

In the memo seen by SecretReporters emanating from the office of the Acting-Chairman Federal Inland Revenue Service addressed to the Director, Human Capital Management Development dated December 18, 2019, same day the...

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If the Guinness book of record should be enlarged to accommodate Banks who are proficient in defrauding customers and States who have become hosts to their operations in Nigeria, Unity Bank Plc under the leadership of Mrs Oluwatomi Somefun will emerge undisputed as the winner following several sanctions on the bank by both the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2018 to the tune of N7 million Naira as penalty for reporting deficiencies in the 2015/2016 annual report and for excess charges and interest on customers.

Unsurprisingly, Four (4) of its branches were amongst several other banks closed down in 2017 by the Nassarawa State Board of Internal Revenue following their callous suppression of IGR and inability to turn over tax generated from the state for years.

Information obtained by this online news medium revealed that on December 29, 2016, Ori Adeyemo and Co; a Forensic Accounting Consultancy firm based in Lagos and introduced to the Nasarawa State government by one Mr Charles Osuji and Mr Edmond Ogbonna was engaged by the Nasarawa State Board of Internal Revenue to assist in the improvement of...

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While the corruption searchlight has been beamed on the nation’s political players, corporate organizations especially the Tokunbo Abiru led Polaris Bank (formerly Skye Bank Plc) being a kingpin in the corporate fraud cartel, have cashed in on this charade to blindly suppress and defraud Nasarawa State of its IGR for years running into Millions of Naira.

This systemic fraudulent practice carried out by then Skye bank (now Polaris bank) surfaced after an exhaustive forensic audit done by a Lagos-based Forensic Accounting Consultancy firm engaged by the Nasarawa State Board of Internal Revenue to improve the state’s Internally-Generated-Revenue (IGR) base of excess bank charges, high network individuals, withholding tax on dividends, interest, and deposits against banks operating in the State from 29th May 1999 to December 2017.

After perusing through the records of the Nasarawa State Board of Internal Revenue to assess the state’s IGR performance and the bank’s compliance in tax remittance for the period under review, it was garnered that the bank under the management of Mr...

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It is mind-boggling to discover that First City Monument Bank (FCMB) led by Ladi Balogun like the Zamora fish which is infamous for its parasitic relationship with the shark has since its operation in Nasarawa State defrauded her of its Internally Generated Revenue despite the massive patronage it has enjoyed from its teeming population.

Not long after hearing of the case of its branch manager who was alleged to be involved in a N210 million fraud scandal at the Federal Capital Territory Abuja, another fraudulent activity, this time on the consistent tax evasion and non-remittance of 10% withholding monies to the Nasarawa government has been uncovered after...

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Barely forty-eight hours after documents emerged proving that few hours to his replacement, the embattled Ex-revenue chief, Mr Babatunde Fowler pleaded for a tenure extension, and also the trending video showing staffers at the service headquarters mocking him as he finally vacates his office, more stories are beginning to surface with the latest on how he flagrantly flouted a presidential directive ordering him to hand over to the most senior Director in the Service.

In a petition obtained by SecretReporters which was submitted to the Ministry of Finance by the Joint Union Council of Federal Inland Revenue Service after its emergency meeting at the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN, FIRS Unit) Secretariat on Tuesday, 10 October 2019, the allegation was made, the union stated that the handover by the Ex-FIRS boss was a clear...

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Following the public outcry that trailed the recent tweet in which the Federal Airport Authorities In Nigeria (FAAN) through a directive banned all ride-sharing companies from picking up passengers from the airport, the Aviation watchdogs have like the speed of light rescinded its decision.

According to the tweet, a Public notice bearing the Authority’s official logo read “Taxi calls, Bolts, Easy rides, Taxify, Uber, ANU plc, etc. are not allowed to pick passengers from the airport…”.

The directive which had N10,000 (Ten Thousand Naira) fine attached to it sources claim was issued in a bid to protect the Airport taxi drivers who are allegedly suffering from low patronage ever since the arrival of Uber and Taxify (now Bolt).

The directive which had N10,000 (Ten Thousand Naira) fine attached to it sources claim was in a bid to protect the Airport taxi drivers who are...

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