Day: June 14, 2025

By: Mandy Park The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned Halima Buba, CEO of SunTrust Bank, and Innocent Mbagwu, the bank’s Executive Director, over alleged $12 million money laundering. They face a six-count charge bordering on money laundering, allegedly violating Nigeria’s Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022. Buba was arraigned on Friday before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Abuja alongside Innocent Mbagwu, the bank’s Executive Director and Chief Compliance Officer. The two top executives are facing a six-count charge bordering on money laundering,…

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By: Mandy Park Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa has praised President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s posthumous pardon and conferment of national honours on Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni activists but noted that for this long overdue gesture to transcend ceremonial pageantry, it must catalyse full reparations and tangible justice for Ogoni Land and its people. In a statement made available by its Media and Communications’ Officer, Robert Egbe, after the President’s June 12, 2025, Democracy Day address, CAPPA described the pardons as a historical reckoning that coincides with the…

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