Category: Corruption matters

Ahmed Idris, AGF By Advocatenewsng.com. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested the serving Accountant General of the Federation, Mr. Ahmed Idris, in connection with diversion of funds and money laundering activities to the tune of N80bn. The Spokesman for the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, said this in a statement on Monday titled, ‘EFCC arrests Ahmed Idris, Accountant General of the Federation, for N80bn Fraud’. According to the commission, Idris was arrested after failing to honour an invitation. The…

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Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa, EFCC chairman nominee. By Editor, (Finance and Economy). President Muhammadu Buhari has finally sealed the fate of the former acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, with the appointment of a 40-year old 2005 cadet investigator with EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa as new chairman. Magu, who was arrested, detained and recently investigated by the Justice Ayo Salami probe Panel sitting at Aso Rock, over corruption allegations, is yet to be retired or…

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Prof. Itse Sagay, SAN, Chairman, PACAC. By Editor. Following the roiling saga of the large scale fraud, financial recklessness and incompetence of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), more leaders of the Niger Delta region have questioned the propriety of having the IMC in place and called for its disbandment.Giving his view on the saga, the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari…

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Ibrahim Magu, EFCC chairman. OPINION. By Mike Ozekhome, SAN. Mr Ibrahim Magu has been acting as EFCC  Chairman for over five years. The Senate on two  occasions refused to confirm him, based on clear report on damning allegations of corruption leveled against him by Government secrete agency, the DSS. Magu’s compromised supporters and cheap publicists, eating from his table and those afraid of public denigration in the so called “anti- corruption war ” hailed and ‘ranka dede-d’ him. They …

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