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Re: Nigeria Immigration Service Initiates Probe into Passport Racketeering Allegations in the South East

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),
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Oil Theft Gulps Nigeria’s $16.25 Billion – NEITI Nigeria’s Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI has revealed that the country lost N16.25 trillion to crude oil theft.

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 […]
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MacArthur Foundation President Receives Abuja Chieftaincy Title, Hails Traditional Institution

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.
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Global Investigative Journalism Conference Upskills WAMAC for Enhanced Anticorruption Duties

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
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ATTACK ON INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST IN KOGI STATE: WAMAC CALL FOR INVESTIGATION TO APPREHEND ATTACKERS TO FACE JUSTICE.

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 […]
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ATTACK ON INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST IN KOGI STATE: WAMAC CALL FOR INVESTIGATION TO APPREHEND ATTACKERS TO FACE JUSTICE.

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 […]