Osinbajo warns against bribing officials for licences, passports (Punch)

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has warned against giving bribes to government officials to obtain driving licences, passports or to clear goods at the ports, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.

Osinbajo spoke on Tuesday in Abuja while declaring open the anti-corruption conference tagged ‘Collaborative Approach to Eradicating the Evils of Corruption in Nigeria’.

The event  was organised by the Office of the Vice-President and Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption.

Quoting PricewaterhouseCoopers, Osinbajo said Nigeria’s 2030 Gross Domestic Product  could be up to $534bn  higher if it reduced corruption. Read more