EFCC | Intervention

Have We Lost the Accountability Debate? Reflections on Three Decades of Anti-Corruption Work in Africa

Posted By: adminon: September 23, 2026In: SpectacleTags: Accountability debate, EFCC, Illicit financial flows, Law Society of Kenya, Malabo Protocol, Proceeds of Crimes Act, ‘Corruption fights back’, ‘Hands off Africa’No CommentsViews:

By Femi Falana (SAN) Introduction: The Wrong Question The organisers of this dialogue have posed a question which is both timely and provocative: Have We Lost the Accountability Debate? My a... Read more

The State of the Anti-Corruption Policy and Practice in Nigeria: A Political Scientist’s Approach

Posted By: adminon: December 15, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption, Chapter II of Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution, Code of Conduct Bureau, Democratic development, EFCC, Human Rights Commission, ICPC, INEC, the Public Complaints CommissionNo CommentsViews:

By Prof L. Adele Jinadu 1: Points of Departure The problem of corruption in Nigeria is fundamentally a problem of democratic political governance and has to be approached as such in view of... Read more

Tinubu’s Language Game Against Labelling, Blanket Stereotyping of Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: February 02, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: ECOWAS, EFCC, Foreign policy, Language game, Liliputianism, NIGERIANo CommentsViews:

Is it too early to concede that President Bola Tinubu gets it right each time he steps out in representational practice of power? His language game is usually so well put that no platform t... Read more

JAF Calls for General Strike in Pursuit of System Change in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: August 11, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: ASUU, EFCC, Inflation, masses, NLC, Privatisation, TUCNo CommentsViews:

Two weeks after the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC)’s warning protests across Nigeria in connection with the Federal Government acting to end the six-month old strike action by the Acade... Read more

How To Avoid Repeating The Buhari Debacle

Posted By: adminon: April 19, 2022In: FlashbackTags: APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, EFCC, Goodluck Jonathan, PDPNo CommentsViews:

By Ike Okonta The three leading aspirants for the All Progressives Congress’ (APC) presidential ticket, Bola Tinubu, Dave Umahi and Yemi Osibanjo, lavishly praised President Muhammadu Buhari... Read more

Power of Corruption Versus Power Over Corruption

Posted By: adminon: October 17, 2021In: GovernanceTags: CISLAC, EFCC, GCS, ICC, Premium Times, WFTONo CommentsViews:

Intervention does not investigate corruption but it is excited in the politics of discursive power in the domain of corruption. This is more so in the context of the on-going clash of the po... Read more

Senator George Akume Fights Nemesis But Can He Defeat Gov Samuel Ortom?

Posted By: adminon: September 01, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: Abdulsalami/Kukah Peace Initiative, Anti-Open Grazing law, APC, EFCC, Fulanisation, Governor Samuel Ortom, Islamisation, PDP, Senator George AkumeNo CommentsViews:

Reading the text of Senator George Akume’s press conference containing critical allegations against Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State in Abuja on August 30th, 2021, one finds illustration... Read more

If Dr. Ibrahim Tahir Were Still Here

Posted By: adminon: June 01, 2021In: FlashbackTags: Africa, ANPP, De Gaulle, Dr. Patrick Wilmot, EFCC, OBASANJO, PDP, Singapore, The Last Imam, Third TermNo CommentsViews:

He would have been the one voice both his admirers and those who did not admire him would have loved to hear today at a time of grave existential challenges to Nigerians and Nigeria. But he... Read more

With Battle Commanders Shelling Each Other, Isn’t Victory Elusive and the Anti-Corruption War Over?

Posted By: adminon: July 14, 2020In: SpectacleTags: AfricaReport, EFCC, NDDC, NSITFNo CommentsViews:

Every dollar that a corrupt official or a corrupt business person puts in their pocket is a dollar stolen from a pregnant woman who needs healthcare; or from a girl or a boy who deserves an... Read more

Ridding Nigeria’s Anti-Graft War of Aporias, Apologia and Silences in the Post-COVID-19 Era

Posted By: adminon: May 05, 2020In: FlashbackTags: Audu Bako, EFCC, General Victor Malu, Justice Mustapha Akanbi, World BankNo CommentsViews:

That any society in which the highest bidder is always the winner must, sooner than later, pay a price for that is, unarguably, the second of the two messages COVID-19 pandemic has sent to a... Read more