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World Bank Job: How Nigeria’s ex-Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed sidestepped FG’s nomination, appropriated position to herself
May assume duty on July 10, 2023 A devious plot conceived and hatched by a former Minister of Finance against Nigeria to circumvent...
Hours after Reps cleared NNPCL, Kyari, of complicity in stolen crude, U.S. court to sentence, Ann Ramirez, wife of fraudster in crude saga
Barely 30 hours after Nigeria’s House of Representatives cleared the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd and its Managing Director, Mele Kyari and a...
Details of how convicted wire fraudster, Bidemi Rufai, was receiving $50,000 per transaction from Ogun Gov. Abiodun –U.S.
United States of America’s comprehensive court documents have disclosed how Ogun Gov. Dapo Abidoun was paying U.S. jailed fraudster, Bidemi Rufai, $50,000 per...
Just in: Accountant-General’s probe: EFCC reveals another stolen N90bn
As the the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) continues investigation into the snitching of N80 billion by the suspended Accountant-General of the...
Scandal! Sterling Bank, MD of Eatrich Farms defraud 40 staff of N88m spurious loans
A smudge of fraud has hit Sterling Bank as the founder of Eatrich Farms, Lagos, Sam Afolabi, in connivance with some bank officials,...
Exposed! FRABEMAR, company hired by Transport Minister Ameachi, for multi-billion dollar cargo tracking, already kicked out of Congo, Mali, Gabon, Italy, for fraud
“Mafia behind the contract diverted millions of American dollars out of the countries. As a result of their crookedness, the company...
Former DPR boss, Auwalu, busted for multi-million dollar fraud, returns huge sums of money
Following an audit team’s report exposing fraud, bookkeeping deficiencies, and abuse of office, Engr. Sarki Auwalu, a former boss of the Department...
It’s daily nocturnal sexual and psychological violence in the kidnappers’ den, while men are beaten black and blue, says female victim – a PSN exclusive
Thirty-two-year-old Lukas (not the real name) was traveling to Kaduna for his cousin’s wedding when he was kidnapped along with nine other...
CTN multi-billion dollar contract scandal: Amaechi, hoodwinks Buhari, at daggers drawn with NSA, Chief of Staff, BPP – Persecondnews investigation
In perpetrating the “AmaechiGate”, the minister spurns National Security Adviser’s invite for meeting over security and economic implications of project Per Second...
Insecurity, gangrape: Sex workers in Benue device new strategies of protecting themselves — PSN exclusive
Following the state of insecurity in Benue State and across the country, Markurdi sex workers have devised means of safeguarding themselves. The...
APC state congress chaotic in 12 states, successful in 20 states — Persecondnews investigation
The unresolved crises and divisions in the party across the states reared their ugly heads on Saturday as party members filed out...
Amaechi’s directive to NPA on equipment purchase lacks budgetary provisions-Investigation
Fresh details have emerged on the disagreement between the Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, and the suspended Managing Director of the...
Overland Airways, with 6-airplane fleet, flies one of the oldest planes in Nigeria – Per Second News check
A local airlines, Overland Airways Ltd with a call sign “Overland“, operates one of the oldest fleet in Nigeria, contrary to claims that it...
Stakeholders score Buhari’s agric policies low
A video went viral in November 2020 about a hearing session organised by a committee of Nigeria’s legislative national assembly. Zaheera...
Exposed! How generator dealers, manufacturers rip-off Nigerians
By Boye Ajayi with additional reports from Ayodele Akinsola With almost half of Nigeria’s population perpetually in darkness as a result...
Inside Abuja’s booming Tramadol, Codeine black market – an investigation
By Edwina Ogiri The massive patronage and consumption of Codeine, Tramadol and other opioids are usually by teenagers and young adults...
