Whistle blower

The Federal Government has paid part of the N421 million commission to the whistle blower who helped the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) recover $43m, N23.2m and £27,800 (N13bn) from an Ikoyi apartment on April 12, 2017.…

The Federal Government has approved a whistle blowing policy for the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) to help the agency in its fight against human trafficking in Nigeria. The Head, Press and Public…

The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, says the whistleblower policy of the Federal Government is one of the current administration’s successful initiatives. She said this on Tuesday in Abuja at a seminar organised by the Bureau of…

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission, (ICPC) on Friday said more corrupt civil servants and other individuals would soon be exposed as the agency prepares to start using its volunteers as whistle blowers.…

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), on Thursday arraigned one Abubakar Sani for providing false information to the commission. Sani’s information had led to the raid on the residence of former…

In February, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) recovered 9.8 million dollars from the former Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Andrew Yakubu hidden in a fire proof safe in a building…

The President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, has said that the Senate will pass the Whistle Blower Protection Bill in July, 2017. He made this known at the launch of “Antidotes for Corruption: The Nigerian Story”, a book written by…

Benue Governor Samuel Ortom has challenged residents of the state not to hesitate to blow the whistle if they had any case of corruption against him or any of his appointees. “I have tried to run an open and transparent administration.…

A whistleblower alerted the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC of fake and unregistered products valued at over N200 million. The products, confiscated were stocked in a building at 11, Omotosho…

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, described its whistle-blower policy, which has led to the recovery of looted funds as an effective tool of fighting corruption in Nigeria. He further stated that the policy…

Again, a whistle blower on Tuesday led the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to a staggering sum of N4 billion suspected to be proceeds of corruption. The commission disclosed this in a Facebook post on Tuesday evening.…

Foreign Affairs Minister Geoffrey Onyeama has vowed to protect whistleblowers following the sack of Mr Ntia Thompson. He stated this on Friday that Mr Thompson would be reinstated if actually his appointment was wrongfully terminated.…

An assistant director, Mr. Ntia Thompson with the Directorate for Technical Cooperation in Africa, who raised the alarm that the sum of $229,000 and N800,000 had been diverted by key officials in the Directorate of Technical Cooperation in…

The All Progressive Congress, APC United Kingdom took to its social media account on Twitter over the weekend to expose a said Nigerian man who has 10 Mercedes Benz G-Wagon in his compound including a gold plated variant. The APC UK…

A total of 10 Mercedes Benz G -Wagons were reported to have been spotted in a Nigerian man's compound as part of the whistle-blower's policy set up by he Federal Government to fight corruption. The luxury vehicles were exposed by the All…

Following the raid of the former NNPC GMD, Andrew Yakubu's house in Kaduna city and the recovery of the largest loot in recent times by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, the whistle-blower responsible for the…