Nigerians are reportedly hailing news that the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) is beginning investigation into allegations of corruption against former President Olusegun Obasanjo during his rule. They say although the investigation is a welcome development, the timing is questionable after various accusations of graft practices were leveled against the former president.
Nigerian economist Chudi [...]

Mr Zuma faces a lengthy jail term if the trial goes ahead and he is convicted of the 18 charges of fraud, corruption and racketeering relating to a government arms deal.
The case has stirred up a political storm in South Africa, where Mr Zuma is the favourite to succeed President Thabo Mbeki in elections 2009.
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The long anticipated trial of African National Congress president Jacob Zuma on charges ranging from corruption to racketeering will get under way next week in KwaZulu Natal.
Three years after Jacob Zuma was formally charged with two charges of corruption flowing out of the conviction of his legal advisor on similar charges, his trial will [...]

The Nigerian senate is considering last week’s appointment of Farida Waziri to head the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Waziri is a retired inspector general of police and headed the police Anti-Fraud Unit between 1996 and 1999. So what does this appointment mean for the efforts to root out official corruption in Nigeria?
Sina Loremikan, the [...]

Akin writes about “role of bureaucracies in stifling development, progress and economic growth”:
Corruption is exacerbated by the layers and hoops of unnecessary bureaucratic requirements that simply keep pen-pushers and deadwood in their positions of unwarranted privilege as enemies of change – people need to get things done and the only way to smooth out any [...]

AN eminent Norwegian-born former Paris magistrate, Dr. Eva Jolly, has said that the former Chairman of the NIgerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, was sacrificed for daring to probe a former governor from one of the oil-rich Niger Delta states and a prominent daughter of an erstwhile president of the country.
Joly, [...]

The Nigerian media carried the report of two Nigerian Ministers fired on the allegation of fraud. This is a good indication that it has stopped being business as usual in Nigeria. Akin blog offers a succinctly written op-ed on the matter, excerpts:
“The names of the people involved, as academic excellence is considered a badge of [...]