The Senate on Tuesday passed an amendment to the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) Act with stiffer punishment for false petitioners. Specifically, the amendment to Section 25 of the Act, now provides two-year imprisonment with no option of fine on anyone whose petitions to the commission is found to be false or intended to mislead. This …

Governors of the 36 states of the federation are to meet on Tuesday with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) on how to manage their states’ security votes. Attempts to get governors to react to the implication of the meeting for their states last night proved abortive, as …

President Muhammadu Buhari has sworn in seven board members for the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other related offences (ICPC). The swearing-in took place shortly before the commencement of the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting at the State House in Abuja on Wednesday. The reappointed ICPC board members included retired Justice Adamu Bello (Katsina), Hannatu Mohammed (Jigwa), Olubukola Balogun (Lagos), Obiora …

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has said that it arrested nine persons for vote buying. In a statement on Saturday, the commission said the alleged vote buyers were arrested in Osun, Ondo, Borno, Akwa Ibom, and Sokoto States during the presidential and National Assembly elections. “Four vote buyers were arrested by the Osun State Office …

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has taken into custody one Hassan Ahmad in possession of N2 million cash allegedly meant for a politician in Gombe. In a statement in Abuja, ICPC’s spokesperson, Mrs Azuka Ogugua said the cash was in both old and new notes She said that the suspect was arrested on Friday by …

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has discovered N258 million stashed in the vaults of a bank amid the ongoing cash scarcity in the country. Spokesperson of the anti-graft agency, Azuka Ogugua said the money that all new Naira notes was found in the vault of the Abuja head office of Sterling Bank. “Operatives of ICPC …

Some worried employees of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) have urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offenses Commission (ICPC) to look into cases of alleged fraud and corruption at the agency. However, NSITF’s General Manager/Head of Corporate Affairs, Mrs Ijeoma Oji-Okoronkwo denied knowledge of any wrongdoing in the organisation. …

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has seized at least 97 property from different individuals in the past four years. These included 33 buildings, plots of land and a factory forfeited to the Federal Government by a former accountant with the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Dr Jimoh Olatunde. The anti-graft agency disclosed these to …

An inter-agency committee set up on the recovery of debts owed to the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has submitted its report to the Federal Government and is urging for strict implementation of relevant laws including the AMCON Act. The Act disqualifies recalcitrant debtors from benefitting from government contracts and projects without AMCON’s due diligence clearance. The committee, led …

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has said that it has reduced the incidence of corruption in the execution of constituency projects through its projects tracking exercise across the country. The anti-graft agency disclosed that the development followed the tracking of constituency project which began in 2019. From that time, according to ICPC, the incidence of …