N47.2 Billion and $487.5 Million in cash and properties have so far been traced to the former Minister of Petroleum Resources in the Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke. This followed painstaking investigations by operatives of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC These are some of the top properties purchased from …
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The President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, said contrary to insinuations, the Senate had no pre-meditated plan to reject Ibrahim Magu as chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Mr. Saraki said, while featuring on the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja, that the screening of …
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The bill to establish the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Agency has scaled second reading in the Senate. The bill seeks to strip the Economic Financial Crimes Commission of control over the existing Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit, NFIU. The NFIU is currently under the anti-graft agency. The bill to remove that …
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Former Chief of Army Staff, (retd.)The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has accused a former Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Kenneth Minimah (retd.), and a company, Stoke Synergy Nigeria Limited, of diverting about N13.6bn belonging to the Nigeria Army. The total sum of N13,650,795,245 was allegedly diverted by the two …
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Nigerians have been urged to support the anti corruption crusade of President Muhammad Buhari and as being championed by the National Assembly. In a release signed by the Special Adviser on ‘Media and Illicit Financial Flows’ to the Chairman House Committee on Financial Crimes, Rev. Bunmi Olupona,Nigerians are told to …
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There was a mild drama at the Federal high court in Ede yesterday as workers and students of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) force the judge,Oladimeji David to reverse his earlier order that OAU’s ex acting vice chancellor,Prof. Anthony Elujoba should be kept in Ilesha prison. This reversal came after …
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Nigeria’s former First Lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan, on Thursday alleged harassment of her family by security agencies and sought House of Representatives intervention. In a petition to the Lower Chamber, Jonathan urged the Federal Government to call the agencies to order. The petition was presented at the House’s plenary by …
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FORMER Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Oloye Jumoke Akinjide, and two other chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olanrewaju Otiti and Senator Ayo Adeseun who are standing trial over N650m allegedly collected for the funding of the 2015 election in Oyo State were Thursady granted bail by a Federal …
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The endorsement by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo of the continuous stay of Ibrahim Magu as EFCC chairman was not a collective decision, the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, said on Wednesday. Addressing journalists after a meeting of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, on Wednesday, Mr. Malami said the Federal Executive Council …
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The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo has said that as long as he remains the Acting President and President Muhammadu Buhari’s mandate as president subsists, Ibrahim Magu will continue in office as the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. He made the declaration in Kaduna at the commissioning of …
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