Nigeria Lies: Recovering Loot
Nigeria Lies: Recovering Loot It is very brazen political lying to equate the refund of stolen funds to the state with political success or successful...
Who Will the EFCC Cadet Graduates Serve?
Who Will the EFCC Cadet Graduates Serve? People when no dey happy, people when know dey look – Fela Kuti, Overtake don Overtake Last week...
Corruption Is Now Spiritual: Nigeria
Corruption Is Now Spiritual: Nigeria Anti-corruption is not a simple task to handle and it is not always straightforward. There are practical exhaustive steps to...
“Coconut Head” Corruption
“Coconut Head” Corruption “There is no good name for a terrible disease” – Urhobo proverb. “The solution to Africa’s problems lie solely in Africa” – George...
Aso Rock Suspensions
Aso Rock Suspensions and the Game of WHOT When the suspensions of the Secretary to the Federal Government, Babachir David Lawal, and the Director-General of...
EFCC: Stage-Managing Cash Seizures?
EFCC: Stage-Managing Cash Seizures? Where is the Government of Nigeria (GON) or the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) winning their war against corruption? Nowhere....
Why Stage-Manage Cash Seizures?
Why Stage-Manage Cash Seizures? The current sensation in Nigeria is the mysterious discoveries and seizures of large sums of money (mostly foreign currency) found at...
Ibori Won!
Ibori won! James Ibori is both Nigeria and a Nigerian in the most representative of terms. The Ibori Corruption Saga has much less implication for the ex-governor...
Foreign Investment: Nigerian Electricity
Foreign Investment: Nigerian Electricity Many Nigerians hopefully think that one day, the nation will attract enough foreign direct investment (FDI) to enable the develop development...
Buhari Has Panama-Proofed Nigeria
Buhari Has Panama-Proofed Nigeria If you were to ask President Muhammadu Buhari what the most successful thing a person could achieve in Nigeria was? If...
Can Buhari Still Change Nigeria?
An interview of Grimot Nane on the immediate political future of Nigeria by freelancer Opey Sonto, September 15th 2016. SHOW MORE...
Give Nigeria Back Its Stolen Funds in UK
A keynote lecture presented at Green Economics Institute 11th Annual Conference at Kellogg College, University of Oxford, England on the 29th of July 2016. The...
Thank Buhari – Hiding Corruption List
Thank Buhari – Hiding Corruption List Even though President Muhammadu Buhari was riding on a high crest of fame and popularity during the Anticorruption Summit...
Buhari: “Too Big To Convict” Sham
Buhari: “Too Big To Convict” Sham The first corruption prosecution of President Muhammadu Buhari’s reign has succeeded. The former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration...
Anticorruption Is Better Social Organisation
Anticorruption Is Better Social Organisation This article starts and concludes with the following sentence. “Governance and corruption are about social organisation on a scale that...
Anticorruption in Nigeria: Insulting
Anticorruption in Nigeria: Insulting Anti-corruption from any technical or non-technical perspective is invariably about preventing, detecting and prosecuting corruption. The proceeds of corruption is another....
Buhari Allows Corruption Fight Back
Buhari Allows Corruption Fight Back Anti-corruption is a complex and difficult task but some certain fundamentals and necessities need to be adhered to in the...
Nigeria Fighting Corruption Unthinkingly
Nigeria Fighting Corruption Unthinkingly The Government of Nigeria’s (GON) decision to somewhat expediently ‘fight corruption by scandal’ is by far the most inappropriate way to...
Dasuki’s Warning to Buhari : Anti-Corruption Miss Road
Col Sambo Dasuki has sent a strong warning to President Muhammad Buhari; and the encoded message is “back off! or we both will share the...
Show Us a Frivolous Corruption Petition!
Show Us a Frivolous Corruption Petition! In the arena of corruption, especially at the grand level where billions of dollars are stolen as a rule...
Is the TSA a Panacea to Corruption?
Is the TSA a Panacea to Corruption? Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a diehard neoliberal, adopted the Treasury Single Account (TSA). This was when she was Minister of...
Youth Leader Murders: The Blind Side of Anti-Corruption
While Nigeria was being firmly gripped by the ostensible “showbiz” of anti-corruption promoted by the new Nigerian government before and after the 2015 elections, many...
Why “Anti-Corruption” is a Great Election Gimmick in Nigeria
Nigeria since independence in 1960 has had six democratically elected executives, the most recent being Muhammadu Buhari. The country has also had seven military heads of...
When Proper Democratic Process Fails Us: The Saraki Crisis
The “Saraki crisis” is making Nigerians and some foreign spectators of the three arms of government to rethink their understanding of the design and processes...
The Blind Side of Anti-Corruption: What We May Not See
Nigeria appears to be definitively on track for major national and state anti-corruption initiatives; where the track will lead to nobody knows. The time and...
The Important Lesson from #FasholaGate: Faceless, Nameless and Objectless
Usually, corruption scandals in Nigeria are typically “nameless” and “faceless” after the fact. The best’ name and face’ a member of public or even a...
Buhari’s House and the “Pacts” that Hold It Together
President Muhammadu Buhari has a political “house” he heads and it is the recently emerged All Progressives Congress (APC). New houses either collapse or withstand...
Is APC the House of Refuge for the Corrupt?
The All Progressives Congress (APC) is the political party which the current President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari leads. President Buhari was...
Probe: Nigerian Electric Power
Probe: Nigerian Electric Power Will the Probe of the Nigerian Electric Power Sector from 1999 to 2015 Succeed? The Senate probe into the management or...
Pyrates: Original Anticorruption in Nigeria
Pyrates: Original Anticorruption in Nigeria In 1953, the Pyrates Confraternity (PC), an all-male campus fraternity, began at the University of Ibadan (then a college of...
A Metaphor: Ending Corruption in Nigeria
A Metaphor: Ending Corruption in Nigeria In 2001, a high-ranking military officer, a commodore, reluctantly offered me a literary metaphor for solving the problem of...