LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two top officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) were on Tuesday night reported to have emerged as favourites to oversee the affairs of the agency in the absence of the suspended Acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu. They are the Director of Operations, Mr Mohammed Umar, and Secretary, Olanipekun Olukoyede. A top…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A combined team of riot policemen and operatives of the State Security Services (SSS) storm the homes a Ibrahim Magu, the suspended boss of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. A source close to the presidential panel set up to investigate Mr Magu said operatives were detailed to conduct searches at Mr…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidency on Tuesday declared that the ongoing probe of the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes (EFCC) is an affirmation that nobody under the present administration is above scrutiny. The Presidency source also said that anybody that has been elevated to the position of EFCC Chairman must be above…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ibrahim Magu has been suspended as the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). This comes a day after he was arrested and detained by officers of the Department of State Security (DSS) in Abuja. He was grilled by a panel probing allegations of gross misconduct against him but…
LAGOS JULY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The DSS has denied arresting the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, after its officials escorted him to the Conference Center inside the State House Abuja, to be interviewed by a Presidential Panel constituted by President Muhammadu Buhari to grill him on corruption allegations. The…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dominican Republic Withdraws Diezani Alison Madueke’s Diplomatic Status The Dominican Republic has withdrawn the diplomatic status it accorded the former Minister of Petroleum Resources Diezani Alison Madueke. The Chairman of EFCC Mr Ibrahim Mustapha Magu stated this on Friday during a chat on TVC programme Journalists Hangout. Mr Magun who stated that…
LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has told a former Governor of Imo State and Senator representing Imo West Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Senator Rochas Okorocha, to get ready for his day in court. Speaking at the commission’s zonal office in Port Harcourt, Rivers on Thursday, the Zonal Head,…
LAGOS JUNE 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has said it is waiting on the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court to reassign the N7.1bn fraud case of a former Abia State governor, Orji Uzor Kalu, so that his fresh trial ordered by the Supreme Court can start. The prosecuting counsel for the…