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Whistleblowers Inside Federal Polytechnic Bida Say Results Were Sold For Years And National Diploma Records Altered For NYSC Mobilisation At N100,000 A Head, While The School Sacrificed Two Junior Staff And Shielded Its Own
Metro

Whistleblowers Inside Federal Polytechnic Bida Say Results Were Sold For Years And National Diploma Records Altered For NYSC Mobilisation At N100,000 A Head, While The School Sacrificed Two Junior Staff And Shielded Its Own

EXCLUSIVE: Billionaire Hotelier Olusegun Samuel Awolowo Fabricated A £1.6 Million Loan To Defeat His Wife Fisayo Olaoluwa Awolowo In A London Divorce Court And Lost The £2 Million Hendon House To Her
  • November 7, 2026

EXCLUSIVE: Billionaire Hotelier Olusegun Samuel Awolowo Fabricated A £1.6 Million Loan To Defeat His Wife Fisayo Olaoluwa Awolowo In A London Divorce Court And Lost The £2 Million Hendon House To Her

Side Chic CBN Deputy Governor Emem Usoro Accused By Wife of Taking Over Her Husband's Nigeria Customs Broadcasting Station and His 1,000-Unit Taraba Housing Estate
  • October 31, 2026

Side Chic CBN Deputy Governor Emem Usoro Accused By Wife of Taking Over Her Husband’s Nigeria Customs Broadcasting Station and His 1,000-Unit Taraba Housing Estate

Corruption

Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri Voted His Government House N8.41 Billion for 2026 and Set Aside N3.46 Billion of It for Travel and Fuel Alone

Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri Voted His Government House N8.41 Billion for 2026 and Set Aside N3.46 Billion of It for Travel and Fuel Alone

APC Gov. Uba Sani Spent Kaduna State N510.9 Billion In One Year, Published Two Different Totals For The Same Year And Raised His Security Vote From N4.6 Billion To N17.04 Billion

APC Gov. Uba Sani Spent Kaduna State N510.9 Billion In One Year, Published Two Different Totals For The Same Year And Raised His Security Vote From N4.6 Billion To N17.04 Billion

Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde Spent N2.38 Billion On 170 Vehicles For His Office In Nine Months And Voted N10 Billion More For Vehicles In 2026

Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde Spent N2.38 Billion On 170 Vehicles For His Office In Nine Months And Voted N10 Billion More For Vehicles In 2026

Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke Left N206,939,439.58 in Dead Heritage Bank and His Own Auditor-General Declared the State’s Cash Position Can Never Be Correct

Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke Left N206,939,439.58 in Dead Heritage Bank and His Own Auditor-General Declared the State's Cash Position Can Never Be Correct

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Foreign Assets Leaks

Ogun State Secretary To Government Olatokunbo Talabi Bought A £589,000 London House Through Offshore Company With No Mortgage

    Ogun State Secretary To Government Olatokunbo Talabi Bought A £589,000 London House Through Offshore Company With No Mortgage

    EXCLUSIVE: President Bola Tinubu's Maryland Deeds Bare a 26-Year Paper Trail, Passport Number on a London Power of Attorney, Wife Oluremi Signing Off His $600,000 Potomac Sale and a $700,000 Bowie Exit

      EXCLUSIVE: President Bola Tinubu’s Maryland Deeds Bare a 26-Year Paper Trail, Passport Number on a London Power of Attorney, Wife Oluremi Signing Off His $600,000 Potomac Sale and a $700,000 Bowie Exit

      Chapel Hill Denham Chief Executive Mobolaji Balogun Asks A British Virgin Islands Court To Void The Dissolution Of His Property Company Bentley Property Holdings Limited

        Chapel Hill Denham Chief Executive Mobolaji Balogun Asks A British Virgin Islands Court To Void The Dissolution Of His Property Company Bentley Property Holdings Limited

        EXCLUSIVE: Femi Otedola Bought The £53 Million Avenue Road Mansion In His Own Name And Barclays Bank's Charge Bars Any Sale Without The Bank's Written Consent

          EXCLUSIVE: Femi Otedola Bought The £53 Million Avenue Road Mansion In His Own Name And Barclays Bank’s Charge Bars Any Sale Without The Bank’s Written Consent

          SPECIAL REPORT: The Oil Is in the South South, but Northerners And Yorubas Owns Majority Oil Blocks And Wells With Mike Adenuga Alone Owning Six
          Special Report

          SPECIAL REPORT: The Oil Is in the South South, but Northerners And Yorubas Owns Majority Oil Blocks And Wells With Mike Adenuga Alone Owning Six

          EXCLUSIVE: 12 States, One Missing Corridor: How ECOWAS's Anti-Trafficking Shield Lost Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso While the Libya Route Ran On
          Special Report

          EXCLUSIVE: 12 States, One Missing Corridor: How ECOWAS’s Anti-Trafficking Shield Lost Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso While the Libya Route Ran On

          SPECIAL REPORT: Tinubu’s Favourite Country France’s Carrefour Teams Up With Wike’s Alleged Front Company Hypercity: Six Malls Rise Across Abuja In Five Months On A Grabbed Green Area, Seized AEPB Land And The Memorial Park Of The Utako Dead
          Special Report

          SPECIAL REPORT: Tinubu’s Favourite Country France’s Carrefour Teams Up With Wike’s Alleged Front Company Hypercity: Six Malls Rise Across Abuja In Five Months On A Grabbed Green Area, Seized AEPB Land And The Memorial Park Of The Utako Dead

          Zenith Bank Celebrating 35 Years

          Investigation

          • November 6, 2026

          SPECIAL REPORT: The Oil Is in the South South, but Northerners And Yorubas Owns Majority Oil Blocks And Wells With Mike Adenuga Alone Owning Six

          SPECIAL REPORT: The Oil Is in the South South, but Northerners And Yorubas Owns Majority Oil Blocks And Wells With Mike Adenuga Alone Owning Six
          EXCLUSIVE: 12 States, One Missing Corridor: How ECOWAS's Anti-Trafficking Shield Lost Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso While the Libya Route Ran On
          • October 30, 2026

          EXCLUSIVE: 12 States, One Missing Corridor: How ECOWAS’s Anti-Trafficking Shield Lost Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso While the Libya Route Ran On

          SPECIAL REPORT: Tinubu’s Favourite Country France’s Carrefour Teams Up With Wike’s Alleged Front Company Hypercity: Six Malls Rise Across Abuja In Five Months On A Grabbed Green Area, Seized AEPB Land And The Memorial Park Of The Utako Dead
          • October 24, 2026

          SPECIAL REPORT: Tinubu’s Favourite Country France’s Carrefour Teams Up With Wike’s Alleged Front Company Hypercity: Six Malls Rise Across Abuja In Five Months On A Grabbed Green Area, Seized AEPB Land And The Memorial Park Of The Utako Dead

          A Party Built On American Criminal Files: President Tinubu Forfeited $460,000 In The Chicago Drug Money Case, His Chief Of Staff Gbajabiamila Was Suspended In Georgia For Swallowing A Client's $25,000, Governor Abiodun Forgery And Grand Theft Charges In Miami, And Budget Minister Bagudu Stands Named In America's Abacha Laundering Forfeiture
          • October 23, 2026

          A Party Built On American Criminal Files: President Tinubu Forfeited $460,000 In The Chicago Drug Money Case, His Chief Of Staff Gbajabiamila Was Suspended In Georgia For Swallowing A Client’s $25,000, Governor Abiodun Forgery And Grand Theft Charges In Miami, And Budget Minister Bagudu Stands Named In America’s Abacha Laundering Forfeiture

          Boardroom Scandals

          • November 12, 2026

          EXCLUSIVE: Kayode Lawal’s Polaris Bank to Pay $6.21 Million in New York After a US Court Froze Its Dollars at Standard Chartered Bank and the Bank Never Answered the Case

          EXCLUSIVE: Kayode Lawal's Polaris Bank to Pay $6.21 Million in New York After a US Court Froze Its Dollars at Standard Chartered Bank and the Bank Never Answered the Case
          EXCLUSIVE: Stanbic IBTC Holdings Chief Executive Adimohanma Chukwuma Nwokocha Took Two Home Loans of N1.36 Billion From the Group's Own Bank Seven Weeks After Taking Office and Holds Not One Share in the Company He Runs
          • November 11, 2026

          EXCLUSIVE: Stanbic IBTC Holdings Chief Executive Adimohanma Chukwuma Nwokocha Took Two Home Loans of N1.36 Billion From the Group’s Own Bank Seven Weeks After Taking Office and Holds Not One Share in the Company He Runs

          EXCLUSIVE: The Man Who Kept Andela's Books Accused the $1.5 Billion Unicorn of Faking Its Revenue, Got Fired, and a Federal Judge Just Refused to Bury His Case
          • November 8, 2026

          EXCLUSIVE: The Man Who Kept Andela’s Books Accused the $1.5 Billion Unicorn of Faking Its Revenue, Got Fired, and a Federal Judge Just Refused to Bury His Case

          Andela replaced its famous founder-CEO two years ago and the world missed it
          • November 5, 2026

          Andela replaced its famous founder-CEO two years ago and the world missed it

          Metro

          • November 10, 2026

          Whistleblowers Inside Federal Polytechnic Bida Say Results Were Sold For Years And National Diploma Records Altered For NYSC Mobilisation At N100,000 A Head, While The School Sacrificed Two Junior Staff And Shielded Its Own

          Whistleblowers Inside Federal Polytechnic Bida Say Results Were Sold For Years And National Diploma Records Altered For NYSC Mobilisation At N100,000 A Head, While The School Sacrificed Two Junior Staff And Shielded Its Own
          EXCLUSIVE: Billionaire Hotelier Olusegun Samuel Awolowo Fabricated A £1.6 Million Loan To Defeat His Wife Fisayo Olaoluwa Awolowo In A London Divorce Court And Lost The £2 Million Hendon House To Her
          • November 7, 2026

          EXCLUSIVE: Billionaire Hotelier Olusegun Samuel Awolowo Fabricated A £1.6 Million Loan To Defeat His Wife Fisayo Olaoluwa Awolowo In A London Divorce Court And Lost The £2 Million Hendon House To Her

          Side Chic CBN Deputy Governor Emem Usoro Accused By Wife of Taking Over Her Husband's Nigeria Customs Broadcasting Station and His 1,000-Unit Taraba Housing Estate
          • October 31, 2026

          Side Chic CBN Deputy Governor Emem Usoro Accused By Wife of Taking Over Her Husband’s Nigeria Customs Broadcasting Station and His 1,000-Unit Taraba Housing Estate

          70,000 Naira Transport Subsidy For Labour: Another Noose On The Neck Of Unemployed And Vulnerable Nigerians
          • October 29, 2026

          70,000 Naira Transport Subsidy For Labour: Another Noose On The Neck Of Unemployed And Vulnerable Nigerians

          Exclusives

          Exclusive: APC Lagos Assembly Candidate Who Defeated Desmond Elliot, Barakat Odunuga-Bakare's Brother Ran Two London Drugs Lines, Her Sisters Laundered £320,000 Of The Proceeds, And Their Mother Awaits Trial For The Same Operation
          Exclusives

          Exclusive: APC Lagos Assembly Candidate Who Defeated Desmond Elliot, Barakat Odunuga-Bakare’s Brother Ran Two London Drugs Lines, Her Sisters Laundered £320,000 Of The Proceeds, And Their Mother Awaits Trial For The Same Operation

          EXCLUSIVE: Nigerian Correctional Service Controller-General Sylvester Ndidi Nwakuche Moved Kuje's Dying Liver Patient to Hospital a Day After Secrets Reporters Exposed the Centre, and His Headquarters Now Hunts the Officer Who Photographed the Sick Inmate Exclusives
          • November 11, 2026

          EXCLUSIVE: Nigerian Correctional Service Controller-General Sylvester Ndidi Nwakuche Moved Kuje’s Dying Liver Patient to Hospital a Day After Secrets Reporters Exposed the Centre, and His Headquarters Now Hunts the Officer Who Photographed the Sick Inmate

          EXCLUSIVE: EFCC Wrote To The Public Service Institute Of Nigeria Twice In Six Weeks Over Alleged Abuse Of Office And Fraudulent Diversion Of Funds, Summoning Its Director Of Procurement And Demanding From Administrator Imeh Patience Okon's Office Every Contract Awarded Since January 2025, Award Letters, Payment Vouchers And The Accounts Payments Were Made Into Exclusives
          • November 11, 2026

          EXCLUSIVE: EFCC Wrote To The Public Service Institute Of Nigeria Twice In Six Weeks Over Alleged Abuse Of Office And Fraudulent Diversion Of Funds, Summoning Its Director Of Procurement And Demanding From Administrator Imeh Patience Okon’s Office Every Contract Awarded Since January 2025, Award Letters, Payment Vouchers And The Accounts Payments Were Made Into

          EXCLUSIVE: The NNPC Ledger Says Sahara Energy's $395.2 Million Was Remitted in Dollars to Designated FIRS and NUPRC Accounts, Yet Its Own Dollar Payment Column Records Nothing on Any of the Seven Cargoes Exclusives
          • November 10, 2026

          EXCLUSIVE: The NNPC Ledger Says Sahara Energy’s $395.2 Million Was Remitted in Dollars to Designated FIRS and NUPRC Accounts, Yet Its Own Dollar Payment Column Records Nothing on Any of the Seven Cargoes

          EXCLUSIVE: Weeks Before Herbert Wigwe Died, His Insurers Wrote His Second Yacht Down Under Two Names In Disguise, Lady D And Wegu The Great, For A Company No Registry Anywhere Can Find Exclusives
          • November 10, 2026

          EXCLUSIVE: Weeks Before Herbert Wigwe Died, His Insurers Wrote His Second Yacht Down Under Two Names In Disguise, Lady D And Wegu The Great, For A Company No Registry Anywhere Can Find

          UBA Bank Advert

          Parliament

          Kyari At Senate: A Leadership Legacy Anchored On Transparency Parliament

          Kyari At Senate: A Leadership Legacy Anchored On Transparency

          The appearance of former Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, before the Senate Committee on Public

          Road To 2027: The Men Who Want To Lead Nigeria (Part 2) Atiku Abubakar - The Veteran Challenger Parliament

          Road To 2027: The Men Who Want To Lead Nigeria (Part 2) Atiku Abubakar – The Veteran Challenger

          By Victor Otuya Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, GCON, Waziri of Adamawa, was born on November 25, 1946, in Jada village, Adamawa State. He is now 79

          Dr Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan: His Life, Time, And Legacy Parliament

          Dr Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan: His Life, Time, And Legacy

          By Victor Otuya The mighty has fallen. A giant timber has been cut down by the cold hand of the dead. The mood in the

          The Gathering Storm: Let The People Feel The Gains Of Reform Parliament

          The Gathering Storm: Let The People Feel The Gains Of Reform

          By Lanre Ogundipe There is a gathering storm over the Nigerian household. It does not always announce itself with thunder. Sometimes it arrives quietly, in

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          How Dr Jude Ejikeme Obidiegwu Fed Billions to a Tight Circle of Contractors at the Federal Co-operative College Oji River
          Corruption

          How Dr Jude Ejikeme Obidiegwu Fed Billions to a Tight Circle of Contractors at the Federal Co-operative College Oji River

          How Dr Jude Ejikeme Obidiegwu Fed Billions to a Tight Circle of Contractors at the Federal Co-operative College Oji River
          Contract Fraud

          How Dr Jude Ejikeme Obidiegwu Fed Billions to a Tight Circle of Contractors at the Federal Co-operative College Oji River

          NUJ Has No Mandate to Police Journalism in Nigeria, and Secrets Reporters Will Never Join It
          Entertainment Gossip

          NUJ Has No Mandate to Police Journalism in Nigeria, and Secrets Reporters Will Never Join It

          EXCLUSIVE: The Secret Federal War Between Andela and Toptal Over 30 Poached Engineers
          Africa & World

          EXCLUSIVE: The Secret Federal War Between Andela and Toptal Over 30 Poached Engineers

          Osun 2026 Election: If You See Any of Them From Now on to The Day Of The Election, Kill Them - Senator Francis Fadahunsi
          Video & Pictures News

          Osun 2026 Election: If You See Any of Them From Now on to The Day Of The Election, Kill Them – Senator Francis Fadahunsi

          EXCLUSIVO: Patrice Trovoada, de São Tomé e Príncipe, Entregou a Electricidade do Seu País e o Seu Único Aeroporto ao Mesmo Grupo Turco em Oito Meses, o Aeroporto de 380 Milhões de Dólares Sem Qualquer Concurso no Registo e o Contrato de Energia de que o Tribunal de Contas Foi Afastado por Lei
          Corrupt African Leaders

          EXCLUSIVO: Patrice Trovoada, de São Tomé e Príncipe, Entregou a Electricidade do Seu País e o Seu Único Aeroporto ao Mesmo Grupo Turco em Oito Meses, o Aeroporto de 380 Milhões de Dólares Sem Qualquer Concurso no Registo e o Contrato de Energia de que o Tribunal de Contas Foi Afastado por Lei

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