The former acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu has been promoted to the position of assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG). Magu’s promotion was confirmed in a statement issued by the Police Service Commission (PSC) on Monday. PSC spokesman, Ikechukwu Ani, in the statement, said Magu was promoted alongside some […]
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Tosin Ajaomo, the lawyer representing the former acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, on Tuesday said the appointment of a new boss to head the anti-graft agency came as a shock. Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari had on Tuesday asked the Senate to confirm Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa as substantive […]
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The suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu,has described the allegations levelled against him as “nonsense”. Speaking with The Nation hours after he was released from police custody, Magu said he was shocked when he read the allegations designed to tarnish his image. He was arrested last week and […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has insisted that Ibrahim Magu, the suspended acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) must be prosecuted for the allegations of corruption levelled against him. The PDP made the demand in a statement issued by Kola Ologbondiyan, its National Publicity Secretary, on Wednesday. Magu has since Monday […]
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Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has suspended Ibrahim Magu as Acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Magu had spent the night in a police cell at the Headquarters of the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) in Abuja. This comes after a six-hour grilling by a presidential panel, chaired by Justice Ayo Salami, […]
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Ibrahim Magu, the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and his agency, has distanced himself from political inclination. According to him, he would go after any person that is corrupt, Magu said “I don’t care who you are, where you come from. The political inclination is not an issue, so there […]
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Ibrahim Magu, acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has alleged that some banks are aiding and abetting politicians and fraudsters in stealing and laundering money in the country. The EFCC boss made this assertion at a meeting with compliance officers of different banks in Port Harcourt on Friday. According to Magu, […]
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Ibrahim Magu, acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Thursday told Doris Okuwobi, a judge of a Lagos state high court, that he had never been investigated by the Department of State Services (DSS). Magu said this while giving evidence in a N100m suit he filed against the publisher of The […]
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It is my pleasure to welcome you all to this very important occasion to mark the third year of my being at the helm of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, leading the Commission’s charge against corruption. It seems like yesterday, when President Muhammadu Buhari, graciously appointed me to Chair the EFCC and preside […]
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The acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, says Godswill Akpabio, former minority leader of the senate, is still under investigation despite his defection to APC. Akpabio, who left office as governor of Akwa Ibom state in 2015, had been grilled on several occasions by the EFCC over allegations of […]
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