Tag: Bawa
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EFCC bans sponsored congratulatory messages for new chairman
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has urged well-wishers of its newly appointed chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, to stop paying to congratulate him. In a statement by its spokesman Wilson Uwujaren on its official handle @OfficialEFCC, EFCC said resources spent on the congratulatory messages can be channeled to worthy causes, such as internally displaced persons…
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Don’t be like Magu, PDP tells EFCC boss, Bawa
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised the new Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Abdulraheed Bawa, to re-engineer and restore professionalism in the anti-graft agency. The party in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, on Sunday in Abuja urged Bawa to avoid the pitfalls of his…
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JUST IN: Buhari meets newly confirmed EFCC Chair in Abuja [Photos]
President Muhammadu Buhari is in a closed-door meeting with the newly confirmed Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa at the Statehouse. The Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, joined in the meeting minutes after it commenced. Though the agenda of the familiarization meeting is yet…
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Group lauds NASS for confirming Bawa as EFCC Chairman
The Progressive Students’ Movement (PSM), has lauded the National Assembly for the speedy confirmation of Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa as Chairman of Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC). Mr Bestman Okereafor, President, PSM said this in a statement in Enugu on Thursday. “We salute the National Assembly for listening to the voice of progressive minded and…
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New EFCC chairman, Bawa is from Kebbi, same state with Attorney-General Malami
Abdulrasheed Bawa, the 40 year-old nominated by President Muhammadu Buhari as substantive chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is the head of Lagos office of the agency. Bawa, is from Kebbi state, like the Attorney-general Abubakar Malami, who supervises the agency and has always wanted firm control. Until his appointment, Bawa was deputy…
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Fayose expresses shock as first Ekiti gov, Bawa dies at 67
The first military administrator of Ekiti State, Colonel Inuwa Bawa (rtd), has died. Col. Bawa was said to have died in a hospital in Jos, the Plateau State capital on Friday. Reacting to the death, Governor Ayodele Fayose, described the death as “shocking and a great loss to the people of the state who are…