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Chairman of Nigerias premier anti-corruption agency, Farida Waziri, has been at pains to assure Nigerians that her agency is determined to sanction corrupt politicians, if the courts allow. However, according to documents seen by NEXT, she was often more than willing to help these politicians cover their tracks even if it means she just signs off on letters drafted by these men to exonerate themselves from corruption charges. Following requests from men such as Buba Marwa, CPC governorship candidate in Adamawa State; Victor Attah, a former governor of Akwa Ibom State; and James Ibori, former governor of Delta State, Mrs Waziri wrote what a source termed get out of jail card letters to absolve these men of wrongdoings.
In a case of not walking the talk, the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Farida Waziri, issues a clean bill to public figures who had earlier been indicted for corrupt offences
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The national female team will have to rely on good fortune to experience some measure of success
It has been 12 years since the Super Falcons last won a match at the FIFA Womens World Cup. That was way back at the 1999 tournament in the United States of America when they ran out 2-0 winners over Denmark. Today, as they face France in the opening match of the 2011 FIFA Womens World Cup
ago but later went into a partnership with Stanton Woodrush for apparel and licensing sales using the nickname, worth an estimated 50 million rand. After last years World Cup, SAFA made a renewed bid to gain sole rights to the nickname and held lengthy negotiations, at one time threatening to ditch Bafana Bafana and organise a public poll for a new nickname.
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