Tag: Maina
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Alleged N2bn pension fraud: Court fixes date to hear application on Maina’s ‘assets’
A Federal High Court, Lagos, will on October 9 hear an application to compel the government to release information on assets it recovered from the former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Force, Mr Abdulrasheed Maina. Justice Oluremi Oguntoyinbo fixed the date while delivering ruling in an ex parte application for an order of mandamus…
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JUST IN: Court stops EFCC from declaring Maina wanted
The Federal High Court in Abuja has stopped the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission from declaring wanted, a former Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina, who was suspected of complicity in diversion of pension funds. The EFCC had declared him wanted after news broke in 2017 that Maina, who…
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Asset forfeiture: Go after Maina, Babachir Lawal, leave Ekweremadu – PDP tells FG
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday said rather than pushing for the forfeiture of properties allegedly belonging to the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, the President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government should beam his anti-corruption search lights on corrupt officials withing the corridor of power. According to a statement signed by its National Publicity…
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Reps summon Maina, Okonjo Iweala, others over alleged pension fraud
A House of Representatives panel has summoned the former chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, and former Minister of Finance, Oknonjo Iweala, over alleged fraud. The panel also summoned the head of civil service of the federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita, the central bank governor, Godwin Emiefele, chairman of the Economic and…
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Maina: Ex-pension boss drags Magu, EFCC to court, demands N10 billion
A former chairman of the Presidential Taskforce on Pension Reform, Abdulrasheed Maina, has dragged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to court, demanding N10 billion. The acting Chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu was also sued for allegation of character defamation. In the writ of summons, lawyer to the former pension boss, James Onyilo…
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Maina’s Case: What’re you afraid of?, Senate asks AGF
The Senate has asked the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, to explain to Nigerians why he has been running around the courts seeking to stop the probe by the two chambers of the National Assembly into how Mr. Abdulrashid Maina, an Assistant Director in the Ministry of Interior, was surreptitiously…
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Maina: Senate wonders why Malami is afraid of being investigated
The Nigerian Senate has asked the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, to explain why he is afraid of probe into his involvement in the reinstatement of ex-pension boss, Abdulrasheed Maina. In a statement released by the Chairman Senate Committee on Media and Publicity Affairs, Senator Sabi Abdullahi, the…
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Gunmen invade Maina’s house, handcuff guard
Gunmen on Christmas Eve (Sunday) raided the Kaduna home of the former Chairman of the Presidential Task Team on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina. The gunmen were allegedly said to be in search of cash and ammunition in the house. Residents of Kano Street, Kawo New Extension, Kaduna where the house is located, said some of…
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AGF seeks arrest, prosecution of Maina, others for pension fraud
The Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) Abubakar Malami (SAN) has asked a Federal High Court in Kaduna to declined jurisdiction over a suit by embattled former chairman of the Presidential Pension Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, challenging the arrest warrant issued against him by an Abuja court. Malami urged the court…
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People around Buhari lying to him – Maina
Embattled former Chairman of defunct Pension Reform Task Force Team, PRTT, Abdulrasheed Maina, has alleged that bigger names involved in the looting of public funds are in the Presidency with President Muhammadu Buhari. Maina, who made the allegation also maintained that the anti-corruption fight championed by the Buhari-led government has not achieved result because those…