Nigeria Corruption

Nine senior officials of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) have reportedly been arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the interim forfeiture of property linked to Diezani Alison-Madueke Donald Chidi Amangbo and Sequoyah Properties Limited.

Emerging report from The Nation indicates that about $56million of the $1.09billion Malabu oil block cash was used by a former minister of petroleum resources to buy a jet.

Ubani was arrested and detained on Tuesday, March 19, along with Senator Christopher Enai for failing to produce the former Managing Director of Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF, Mrs Ngozi Olejeme who they both stood for

EFCC has informed the chief judge of the Federal High Court, seeking permission to transfer the trial of former governor of Ekiti state, Ayodele Fayose, from Justice Mojisola Olatoregun to another judge.

Yusuf Pam, a former cashier under the administration of former Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State, told a High Court on Wednesday that the statement he made indicting his former boss, was taken by EFCC under duress.