Tag: Magu
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EFCC nabs 12 bankers for allegedly stealing funds from dormant accounts
The Enugu Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested twelve bankers for allegedly stealing funds from dormant accounts. The suspects are: Odeniyi Anthony, Deki Kingsley Onyekachi, Oguchukwu Ene, Elendu Chizaram, Anyakora Uchenna, Onah Kingsley, Akwe Elizabeth and Chinenye Grace Acibe are being accused of partaking in an insider fraud. Others…
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Controversy trails Magu’s promotion to AIG as Minister insists it came after his retirement
Controversy trails promotion of former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, to the rank of an Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), as Minister of Police Affairs, Maigari Dingyadi insists it came after his retirement raising likely fresh issues around the anti-graft chief fate.
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BREAKING: Ex-EFCC chair, Magu missing as PSC promotes 24 CPs to AIG rank
The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved promotion of 24 Commissioners of Police to the next rank of Assistant Inspectors General of Police. It however declined promotion of former acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Commissioner of Police (CP), Ibrahim Magu. The Commission’s Head of Press and Public Relations, Ikechukwu Ani,…
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Proposed promotion for Magu shows Buhari presidency is condoning corruption
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said the plan by the Police Service Commission to promote Ibrahim Magu, the indicted ex chairman of the EFCC is an insult to Nigerians. Magu was a commissioner of police before he was sacked as acting chairman of the EFCC. But reports indicated that the PSC had ignored the report…
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Court stops EFCC from arresting Ozekhome for criticising Magu
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, restrained the EFCC from inviting, harassing and threatening to arrest or detain Mr Mike Ozekhome, SAN, for criticising the former Acting Chairman of The commission, Ibrahim Magu. Delivering judgment, Justice Inyang Ekwo held that serial acts of intimidation and constant invitations the EFCC extended to Ozekhome were illegal,…
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Court summons Malami, Magu, Emefiele, others to testify in Maina’s trial
The Federal High Court, Abuja, has issued a subpoena compelling Abubakar Malami, the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Ibrahim Magu, former acting Chairman, EFCC . They are to testify in the ongoing case against Abdulrasheed Maina,Chairman, defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT). The subpoena, signed on March 8 by the presiding judge, Okon Abang,…
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Magu: CCB summons suspended EFCC chairman, demands for documents of his assets
Ibrahim Magu, suspended acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been summoned by the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB. CCB asked Magu to appear before it on Tuesday with documents of his assets and copies of his assets declarations while in service, among other things. The invitation was contained in a…
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No regrets probing Magu – Justice Salami
Justice Ayo Salami, chairman of the presidential panel investigating Ibrahim Magu, suspended chairman of the EFCC has denied reports he regretted taking up the assignment. An online news platform (not TheNewsGuru.com, TNG) had reported that Salami made the remark to some lawyers representing Magu. But the respected judge discredited the report as figment of the…
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Probe: FCMB tenders public apology to Magu’s ‘spiritual father’
First City Monument Bank (FCMB) has tendered a public apology to Emmanuel Omale, general overseer of Divine Hand of God Prophetic Ministries International. Prophet Emmanuel Omale, who claims to be the spiritual guide of the suspended acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, had sued First City Monument Bank Plc for…
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SERAP tackles Buhari over ‘missing ’15 corruption case files, 103 others stuck in Malami’s office
A Nigerian rights group claimed that some 15 corruption case files are missing in the office of Justice Minister, Abubakar Malami and that 103 other high profile cases are yet to receive his attention, three years after the EFCC referred them to him. Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has therefore sent an open letter…