LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A lecturer, Mr. Christopher Adejoh, has filed a fundamental rights enforcement suit before a Federal High Court, Lagos, against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) demanding the sum of N100 million as damages. Christopher, a College of Education lecturer, in a suit marked FHC/L/CS/1950/19, filed by his lawyer, Prince Chijioke Chinewubeze,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has accused Western Union of defrauding Nigerians. Magu also said fear of the EFCC has curbed the waste of public funds and expensive lifestyles by public officers and Nigerians living abroad. “We have been able to curb excesses of Nigerians…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Chairman, Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, was on Thursday wheeled into a Federal High Court in Abuja. Maina is in court for the hearing of his bail application. This is following his trial by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over an alleged N2 billion fraud. Maina was on…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The next set of people on the radar of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) are medical doctors who connive with suspected criminals to issue fake medical reports. This is according to the acting chairman of EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, during a briefing in Abuja. He explained that the antigraft agency is…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, on Friday refused to answer a question regarding a petition submitted against All Progressives Congress chieftain, Bola Tinubu. Magu, who held a press conference in Abuja, had lamented the high rate of corruption in the country especially among the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Friday manhandled journalists at its head office in Abuja while a group of activists, including the convener of Concerned Nigerians, Deji Adeyanju, was submitting a petition addressed to the Chairman of the commission, Ibrahim Magu. The activists had gone to submit a petition…
LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Seven operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have been arrested in connection with a plot to smuggle former Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT) chairman AbdulRasheed Maina out of the anti-graft agency’s custody. They are undergoing investigation along with a woman, Zainab Abbas, to determine their involvement in the plot….
LAGOS OCTOBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is to collaborate with the Interpol to promote maritime security through a special project, tagged “Project AGWE.” The project which will involve Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Togo, Ghana and Benin is aimed at ridding Nigeria and the other countries involved of economic sabotage in the maritime…