LAGOS JULY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The suspended Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr Ibrahim Magu, who is being investigated over corruption allegations by a special presidential panel, is asking the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to release him on bail. Mr Magu, a serving police officer who has been in detention since his…
LAGOS JULY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It is now official: President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate suspension of Ibrahim Magu as acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Umar Jibrilu Gwandu, media aide to Abubakar Malami, the attorney-general of the federation, disclosed this in a press statement on Friday. There had been no official…
LAGOS JULY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The suspended Acting Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibrahim Magu, has threatened to go on hunger strike. It would be recalled that Magu along with seven of his aides are been interrogated by a Presidential panel headed by Justice Ayo Salami for alleged fraud and diversion of recovered loot….
LAGOS JULY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Jackson Ude, a former director of strategy and communications under President Goodluck Jonathan administration, had alleged that Ibrahim Magu, the suspended Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), embezzled over N39 billion and gave Osinbajo N4 billion to Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo for a soft landing. Ude claimed that sources…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidential panel probing the activities of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday grilled the so-called “Magu Boys” — a group of operatives believed to be favoured by Ibrahim Magu, the suspended acting chairman of the anti-graft agency. The boys have been accused of committing several atrocities — including…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has asked Mohammed Adamu, inspector-general of police (IGP), to investigate the allegation that he collected N4 billion from Ibrahim Magu, suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). In a petition dated July 8 and addressed to Adamu, the vice-president through Taiwo Osipitan, his lawyer, said…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has reacted to reports that former acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, gave him N4billion. Reports had claimed that Osinbajo also allegedly gave instructions to Magu to release some of the recovered loots. But reacting, a statement issued by Laolu Akande, Senior…
LAGOS JUY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Forces bent on putting a stop to the anti-corruption campaign are amalgamating forces to politicize and stampede the process of impartial investigation of Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) Mr Ibrahim Magu, a coalition of several civil society group said on Wednesday The group said the arrows being…