Seventeen internet fraudsters have been sent to jail in western Nigerian states of Oyo and Ogun. A press release by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC disclosed that the commission secured the conviction and sentencing after their web of deceit was unraveled. According to the
Dr. Kole Shettima, Director of MacArthur Foundation Africa, has announced a financial grant worth $15 million to Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria. This funding is intended to bolster educational and research initiatives for the advancement of national development. The disclosure was made during the presentation of ABU’s Diamond Jubilee Public Lecture on
Abuja, [December 5, 2023] — Wadata Media and Advocacy Centre, WAMAC, an anti-corruption crusader, in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital has taken note of the directive for a comprehensive investigation into allegations of passport racketeering involving personnel within the service, specifically in the South East region. The Comptroller General of Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS),
This revelation came in Abuja with the submission of a report on the $74.386 billion spent on fuel subsidy by successive administrations since 2011 to the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts. Chairman of the committee, Bamidele Salam, received the report from the Executive Secretary of NEITI, Ogbonnaya Orji. An interactive session that followed […]
The president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Prof. John Palfrey, has received a chieftaincy title in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. Garki Traditional Council in Abuja conferred the title of ‘Byefeche Nugba’ on the MacArthur Foundation president; this means ‘Hero of Justice for Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Original Inhabitants’. Prof.
Investigative journalists from around the world have converged in Gothenburg, Sweden, for the Global Investigative Journalism Conference. The four-day event scheduled to end on September 22 has journalists from Nigeria also in attendance. The conference organizers described it as “the world’s largest international gathering of investigative journalists.” Among the
Wadata Media and Advocacy Centre (WAMAC), an investigative journalism and anti-Corruption crusaders based in Abuja with a field base in Minna, Niger State, has condemned in strong terms an attack yesterday on an Investigative reporter, Mr Odimayo Olatunde working with Grace Fm Radio, Lokoja, Kogi State by thugs of ‘Marijuana’hotspot cartel in Lokoja, after his […]
Wadata Media and Advocacy Centre (WAMAC), an investigative journalism and anti-Corruption crusaders based in Abuja with a field base in Minna, Niger State, has condemned in strong terms an attack yesterday on an Investigative reporter, Mr Odimayo Olatunde working with Grace Fm Radio, Lokoja, Kogi State by thugs of ‘Marijuana’hotspot cartel in Lokoja, after his […]