LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele, through his legal team, has threatened to sue President of the Nigerian Senate, Godswill Akpabio over alleged defamation. Emefiele would demand N25 billion in damages from the Senate President if he fails to apologise, according to his solicitors. This was contained…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria is seeking Interpol’s help to arrest three suspects who allegedly stole $6.2m (£4.9m) from the central bank, using the forged signature of then President Muhammadu Buhari. Authorities believe that the suspects conspired with Nigeria’s former central bank chief Godwin Emefiele. He is already on trial on 20 charges, including illegally receiving…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday conducted a search operation at the head office of the Dangote Group in Lagos as it widens investigations into the foreign exchange transactions during the tenure of former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele. Our correspondent gathered…
LAGOS DECEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Godwin Emefiele, the embattled former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has denied allegations of illegal foreign deposits and unauthorised bank operations levelled against him by a private investigator’s report. He called the report “misleading” and an attempt to disparage his personality. He said this in a signed statement late…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Embattled former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele has finally fulfilled his bail conditions and has been released from Kuje Prison secretly, THE WHISTLER has gathered on Friday. A source in the prison who revealed the ex-CBN governor release via a text message said, “Emefiele was released quietly…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s former central bank governor was freed on bail after spending the past five months in prison. A court in the capital, Abuja, released Godwin Emefiele on Wednesday, his lawyer Johnson Usman said by phone. The court ordered Emefiele to surrender his travel documents, Lagos-based newspaper Punch reported. Emefiele, 62, has been…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians are already expressing their outrage over the plea bargain sought by Godwin Emiefele, the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, in the criminal suit filed against him by the federal government. Social media is already agog with reactions from Nigerians who expressed their disappointment over the move by Emiefele…
LAGOS AUGUST 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian prosecutors filed a 20-count indictment against suspended and detained central bank governor Godwin Emefiele on Tuesday, one of them accusing him of “conferring unlawful advantages”, a government lawyer said. President Bola Tinubu, who is embarking on the boldest reforms in Africa’s biggest economy in more than a decade, has launched a…