Nigeria Corruption

A popular human rights lawyer in Nigeria, Femi Falana, has claimed that some public officials have re-looted about $4bn out of the loot recovered from late dictator General Sani Abacha.

A young man simply identified as Chima Obieze has shared a story about his family’s encounter with fraudsters. He said that the fraudsters pretended to want to carry out business with his family but swindled them.

Peering Advocacy and Advancement Centre in Africa (PAACA) recently trained traditional and religious leaders. The training was done on how to use the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act to fight corruption at the grassroots.

Lawyers under the aegis of Coalition of Public Interest Lawyers and Advocates (COPA) on Tuesday, February 26 asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to reopen the case file against Mr Uchechukwu Ogah.

Four people, including a woman, have been sentenced to 160 years imprisonment by the Federal High Court sitting in Yola, Adamawa state.

The price of the car, depending on the variants, is between $25,000 (N9,000,000 at N360 to a dollar) and $35,000 (N12,600,000), excluding the cost of shipping, import duty which is 70% of the net cost and other clearing charges.