A file photo of former Ex-Speaker, Patricia Etteh
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Patricia Etteh over allegation of fraud involving a Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) contract.
Etteh was arrested on Tuesday by the anti-graft agency in Abuja for questioning.
Etteh was elected Speaker in 2007 but resigned only after a few months amid allegations of financial misappropriation.
READ ALSO: NDLEA Arrests ‘Wanted Drug Baroness’, Seals Her Mansion In Delta
She is the only woman in the country’s history to have been elected Speaker.
On Monday, the EFCC had also arrested the Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF) Ahmed Idris over an N80 billion fraud.
The minister, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Thursday, insisted…
The death of the first civilian governor of Abia State and former minister of Science,…
The Air Force said the strikes followed carefully conducted observation missions over the camps of…
The minister had come under fire by many Nigerians in the last one week for…
The new embassies were the result of "the instructions of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to…
Women's rights were rolled back during the eight-year rule of the previous right-wing government, with…