LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The EFCC has requested Bola Tinubu’s asset declaration documents from the Code of Conduct Bureau, Peoples Gazette can report, in a politically-charged inquiry that could see the former Lagos governor and ruling party chieftain arrested and prosecuted before 2023. The anti-graft office in November 2020 asked the asset fraud investigation office to…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Itse Sagay, chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), says he is worried that Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation, may interfere in the duties of Abdulrasheed Bawa, newly-appointed chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The senate on Tuesday, confirmed Bawa as substantive chairman of the EFCC…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The immediate past Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Abdullahi Dikko, is dead, The PUNCH has learnt. It was learnt that the Katsina State indigene, who led the NCS from 2009 to 2015, died after a protracted illness. The former customs boss had been facing a probe by the Economic (EFCC) and Financial Crimes…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the Senate to confirm Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa as substantive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) In a letter to President of the Senate, Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan, the President said he was acting in accordance with Paragraph 2(3) of Part1, CAP E1 of EFCC Act…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two persons are currently being grilled by operatives of the Foreign Exchange Malpractices Section of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, following their arrest over the seizure of 3,013,500 Saudi Riyal on Monday February 1, 2021 at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The money, sealed in brown envelopes and transported…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said on Thursday Faisal Maina, son of Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT), has fled to the United States (U.S). EFCC’s prosecuting counsel, Mohammed Abubakar, said this at the Federal High Court in Abuja where the younger Maina is…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s leading anti-corruption group, Human and Environmental Development Agenda, (HEDA Resource Centre) has dragged to court the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, over the Asset Tracing, Recovery and Management Regulations, 2019. HEDA said certain sections contradict the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), the Immigration Act and the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A federal court in Abuja has signed off on a warrant to arrest the head of oil major ExxonMobil in Nigeria to compel him to appear before anti-graft investigators, a statement for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said on Wednesday. The EFCC said it had sought the warrant after Richard…