Mr. Ibrahim Magu, the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has dedicated the 2016 Person of the Year Award bestowed on him by the Leadership Newspapers, to Nigerians just as he faces legitimacy crisis. Magu who has been rejected twice for the job of the anti-graft agency boss by the Senate […]
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Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has disclosed that the report issued by the Department of State Services (DSS) was not the reason behind the senate’s refusal to confirm Ibrahim Magu as substantive chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The senate president who spoke on the matter in an interview with TVC News in […]
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Mr Ibrahim Magu, who has been rejected as the substantive chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) by the Nigerian Senate, has moved to defend his integrity. After the Senate first rejected him last year December, based on a report by the DSS that questioned Magu’s moral scores for the job, President Muhammadu Buhari […]
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Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has accused the Senate of ridiculing the office of President Muhammadu Buhari by rejecting the confirmation of Ibrahim Magu as chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Falana advised Buhari to restrain the Department of State Services (DSS) police from sabotaging the fight against corruption. The lawyer said […]
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The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, who was on Wednesday rejected by the Senate, says whether he is confirmed or not, he will keep fighting corruption until his last day in office. On his rejection, the Senate cited a report from the Department of State Services (DSS), accusing […]
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The Senate on Wednesday rejected the nomination of Ibrahim Magu as the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The Senate rejected the nomination following a letter by the Department of State Security (DSS) which upheld an earlier letter that Magu failed the integrity test and was unfit for the office. The DSS […]
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The senate has scheduled a confirmation hearing for Ibrahim Magu, acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Senate President Bukola Saraki announced this on Tuesday, that the hearing will hold on Wednesday. This is coming a few weeks after President Muhammadu Buhari asked the senate to reconsider its decision to reject the […]
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Mr. Andrew Yakubu, the former managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, whose $9.7million and £74,000 was hidden in a nondescript house in Sabon Tasha in Kaduna city, has launched a move to have the seized money returned to him. Reports have it that Yakubu has filed a petition before a Federal High Court […]
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Mr Andrew Yakubu has forfeited the huge money found in his secret safe in Sabon Tasha, in Kaduna town. Justice Zainab B. Abubakar of the Federal High Court sitting in Kano today ordered the forfeiture to the Federal Government of $9,772,000 and £74,000 recovered from him. The order was sequel to an ex-parte application by the […]
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Mr Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Thursday told a committee of the House of Representatives that $9.2 million and 750,000 pounds were recovered from a residence in Kaduna state. Although he did not indicate precisely when the raid by EFCC operatives was carried out, NAN has learnt that […]
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