The suspended SGF Babachir Lawal says he is not aware of his suspension. Lawal said this in an interview with State House reporters after meeting Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. President Muhammadu Buhari ordered an investigation into the allegations of violations of law and due process made against the Secretary to …
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SaharaReporters has obtained the full list of occupants of a swanky apartment building in Lagos where operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) found close to $50million last week. The building, located at 16 Osborne Road in Ikoyi, has nine floors of 19 Apartments and two penthouses. It is …
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President Muhammadu Buhari has suspended the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. David Lawal; and the Director-General of National Intelligence Agency, Ambassador Ayo Oke. Their suspension orders were contained in a statement made available to journalists on Wednesday by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and …
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A lawyer, Mr. Abubakar Sani, has filed a suit before the Federal High Court in Abuja seeking an order nullifying Section 2(3) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission which subjects the nomination of the President for the Chairman of the EFCC to the confirmation of the Senate. The plaintiff, …
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Justice I. E. Ekwo of the Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, Cross Rivers State has remanded the Chief Medical Director of University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Professor Thomas. U. Agan, two other staff of the University and promoters of two companies in prison custody. This is following their arraignment on …
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) today, April 4, 2017, arraigned one Sa’ad Ahmed Madaki before Justice Jude Daggard of the Federal High Court, Kano on one count charge of obtaining money by false pretense. The charge reads, “That you, Sa’ad Ahmed Madaki, sometime in 2011 at Kano within the …
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Professor Itse Sagay (SAN), Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), has written to the Senate President, Mr. Bukola Saraki, demanding a withdrawal of the Senate resolution summoning him to appear before it. Should the Senate fail to do so, Mr. Sagay said he would challenge the summons in court …
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has discovered a $37.5m (N11.75bn) luxury high-rise building on Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos, allegedly belonging to the embattled former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke. This is just as the EFCC revealed on Friday that it discovered $9.3m and £74,000 belonging to a former …
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Presidential aides were on Friday put on standby over the imminent return of President Muhammadu Buhari from London, United Kingdom. Buhari, who left Nigeria on January 19, was initially scheduled to return to the country last Sunday in preparation for resumption to office last Monday. However, the Special Adviser …
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The former governor of Delta State, Mr. James Ibori, has reportedly been released from the UK prison where he has spent four years and eight months. Ibori, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, was accused in February 2012 of stealing $250m from the Delta State public purse. Ibori, who was …
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