Special Reports

Two braziers worth $12.5 million and $10.6 million respectively were allegedly among the items seized from former Nigerian Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke. News.band had, in an article dated May 28, 2021,…

The Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday February 8, 2019, discharged and acquitted a former Oyo State Governor, Alhaji Rashidi Ladoja, of the N4.7 billion fraud charges pressed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission…

In a proverbial twist of fate, the Asset Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON) inherited billionaire businessman, Femi Otedola’s debt of N192 billion after it took over management of his then Zenon Petroleum and Gas Ltd. on the one hand.…

Senator Gabriel Suswam is a former Benue State governor who was initially charged in the 32-count charge alongside Omadachi Oklobia, his former Commissioner for Finance, and Janet Aluga, former Accountant, Benue State Government House over…

Facts have emerged on how over 40 former governors frustrated their ongoing corruption trial amounting to 718 billion naira. The case has been on the table of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for over a decade. Among…

Cameroon's five-year conflict could be taking a significant new turn with reports that its English-speaking separatist groups are getting help from an armed group in neighbouring Nigeria. After two attacks by Anglophone militants which…

Chief Olisa Metuh was a spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He is standing trial over an alleged diversion of N400 million collected from the office of the NSA. The sum was said to be part of the arms money to which former…

In November 2019, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) told an FCT High Court in Maitama it would seek a court order for a separate trial for former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd) different from his…

The involvement of teenage boys, girls and even married women in the conflict complicated further the situation further. As earlier stated, some of the attacks and kidnappings were carried out by the boys without the consent of their…

The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA) has launched a compendium of one hundred high profile corruption cases in Nigeria. The publication covers corruption cases as at 22nd of November, 2019. In the preface to the…