{"id":178855,"date":"2025-09-14T19:38:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T18:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/icpc-recovers-700-million-looted-funds-n7-3-billion"},"modified":"2025-09-14T20:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T19:45:06","slug":"icpc-recovers-700-million-looted-funds-n7-3-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/icpc-recovers-700-million-looted-funds-n7-3-billion","title":{"rendered":"ICPC Recovers $700 Million Looted Funds N7.3 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says it has recovered $700 million in stolen funds hidden in foreign accounts, alongside N7.3 billion traced to abandoned projects in local government areas across Nigeria\u2019s Northwest and Northeast.<\/p>\n<p>ICPC Chairman, Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu (SAN), disclosed this on Thursday during a one-day media dialogue with journalists in Kano. He said additional recoveries included 14 buildings, 25 plots of land, and three farmlands seized from corrupt individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Aliyu stressed the importance of media partnership in sustaining anti-corruption momentum in the northern regions, noting that citizens\u2019 resilience against bribery and graft was growing.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, a joint UNODC\u2013NBS survey revealed that the Northwest recorded the highest bribe refusal rate in Nigeria at 76%, while the Northeast stood at 60%. Reports of bribery in the two regions also rose from 4.7% in 2019 to 13.4% in 2023, with formal action on reported cases tripling within the same period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are not just statistics, they tell real stories of Nigerians refusing to be exploited,\u201d Aliyu said, urging community and religious leaders to help entrench a culture of integrity.<\/p>\n<p>He further pledged stronger deployment of technology and operatives across the 36 states to consolidate the Commission\u2019s gains in tackling graft.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says it has recovered $700 million in stolen funds hidden in foreign accounts, alongside N7.3 billion traced to abandoned projects in local government areas across Nigeria\u2019s Northwest and Northeast. ICPC Chairman, Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu (SAN), disclosed this on Thursday during a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":178854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[18730,11543,254],"class_list":["post-178855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-dr-musa-adamu-aliyu-san","tag-icpc-chairman","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ICPC Recovers $700 Million Looted Funds N7.3 Billion - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says it has recovered $700 million in sto ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/icpc-recovers-700-million-looted-funds-n7-3-billion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ICPC Recovers $700 Million Looted Funds N7.3 Billion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says it has recovered $700 million in sto ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/icpc-recovers-700-million-looted-funds-n7-3-billion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-14T18:38:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-14T19:45:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1757866687.899641.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"575\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/icpc-recovers-700-million-looted-funds-n7-3-billion#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/icpc-recovers-700-million-looted-funds-n7-3-billion\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"ICPC Recovers $700 Million Looted Funds N7.3 Billion\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-14T18:38:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-14T19:45:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/icpc-recovers-700-million-looted-funds-n7-3-billion\"},\"wordCount\":220,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/icpc-recovers-700-million-looted-funds-n7-3-billion#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1757866687.899641.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu (SAN)\",\"ICPC Chairman\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/icpc-recovers-700-million-looted-funds-n7-3-billion#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/icpc-recovers-700-million-looted-funds-n7-3-billion\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/icpc-recovers-700-million-looted-funds-n7-3-billion\",\"name\":\"ICPC Recovers $700 Million Looted Funds N7.3 Billion - 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