LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has been urged to track all money transferred 48hrs to election day through the commercial banks. A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Speak Out Africa Initiative, gave the advice on Thursday in Abuja. Kenneth Eze, the executive director of the NGO, said this would help in possible identification…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The suspended Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, has been released by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission after he was arrested for his alleged involvement in a N174 billion fraud, The PUNCH can confirm. Idris was released on bail from the custody of the anti-graft agency on Wednesday night in Abuja…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has filed N2.9 billion fraud charges against former Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha. This is coming hours after the former governor officially declared his presidential bid for 2023. Okorocha was charged alongside Anyim Nyerere Chinenye, Naphtali International Limited, Perfect Finish Multi Projects Limited, Consolid Projects…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former governor of Edo State, Lucky Igbinedion, has been detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. According to available information, Igbinedion who finished his tenure as governor in 2007 is being grilled at the Abuja headquarters of the EFCC for allegedly diverting public funds to the tune of N1.6 billion….
LAGOS APRIL 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali, has ordered an immediate withdrawal of senior police officers attached to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The development signals a simmering hostility between the two law enforcement agencies with a longstanding history of collaboration that has helped the anti-graft agency to meet its personnel needs…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has asked the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mohammed Umar Abba, to make available details of all cases concerning former first lady, Patience Jonathan. A presidency source revealed that Abubakar Malami, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, gave the directive…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has set up a four-man committee to review the report of the Justice Ayo Salami-led judicial panel of enquiry into the tenure of the suspended acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu. The committee, according to TheCable, will produce the White Paper on…
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), the Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee on Corruption, PACAC, has faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to compose a panel to probe the suspended Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu. According to Sagay, Chairman of the panel, Isa Ayo Salami, is the only person…