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MEDIA ADVISORY Guests at Spokesperson’s Noon Briefing on Friday to focus on financing the post-2015 development agenda In its report, the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing found that the financing needs for sustainable development were in the trillions of dollars per year. Annual global savings, at $USD 22 trillion, are sufficient to meet these needs, but current […]

N1.9b Subsidy Scam: ‘Wagbatsama, Others Have Case To Answer’ – Court Rules

Walter Wagbatsama; Adaoha Ugo-Ngadi; Fakuade Babafemi Ebenezer and Ontario Oil & Gas Nigeria Limited are alleged to have fraudulently obtaining the sum of N1,959,377,542.06 from the Petroleum Support Fund for a purported importation of 39.2million litres of Premium Motor Spirit. BY WILSON UWUJARENOCT 13, 2014 Walter Wagbatsama, Adaoha Ugo-Ngadi and their company, Ontario Oil and Gas Nigeria Limited have lost […]

N1.9bn Fuel Subsidy Fraud: Court Frees Accountant Of Complicity

AGENCY REPORTS — Oct 10, 2014 An Ikeja High Court on Friday discharged an accountant, Ezekiel Ejidele, who was tried for complicity in a N1.9 billion fuel subsidy fraud. Justice Lateefat Okunnu discharged Ejidele, a staff of Akintola Williams Delloite, after upholding his no-case submission application. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ejidele was charged alongside two oil […]

Communique issued at the end of a workshop on disaster management in Bayelsa State

COMMUNIQUE The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), in collaboration with Bayelsa State Emergency Management Agency, organized a 2-day step down workshop on disaster management for selected staff of Yenagoa and Ogbia Local Government Councils in Bayelsa State, from Wednesday 8th – Thursday 9th October, 2014 at SSG Conference Hall, State Secretariat, Yenagoa. The workshop was held in […]

Witness, EFCC disagree on threat to life

by: Adebisi Onanuga 7th October 2014 (The Nation Newspaper’s) Witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Kehinde Akinmolayan, has denied the commission’s claim that his life is under threat. Akinmolayan, who was said to be the star witness in a N1.1 billion fuel subsidy fraud charge brought by the commission against two oil marketers, Opeyemi Ajuyah and Abdullahi […]