According to The Guardian,
the reports which covers between June 2015 and May 2016, law enforcement
agencies and the judiciary are the highest receivers of bribes.
The Nation reports that A
tighter security ring has been thrown around Ibrahim Magu and key officers of
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) after a gun attack on its
Abuja office.
Also being protected are
the EFCC Acting Chairman’s mother, who lives in Maiduguri, the Borno State
capital.
The new security measures
were taken after some gunmen yesterday attacked the agency’s office in Abuja.
The annex office is where high-profile suspects are investigated.
This Day reports that an
estimated N400 billion, or the equivalent of $4.6 billion in purchasing power
parity (PPP), representing 39 per cent of the combined federal and state
education budgets in 2016, is paid out as bribes to public officials in Nigeria
annually, a new report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), in
collaboration with the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC), has
revealed.
The National Corruption
Report, which covered the period between June 2015 and May 2016 also showed
that almost a third of Nigerian adults (32.3 per cent) who had contact with
public officials between June 2015 and May 2016 had to pay, or were requested
to pay a bribe to such public officials.
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