Tag Archives: Ibrahim Magu

The  Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday absolved its new Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, of allegations of corruption. A few hours after the President Muhammadu Buhari appointed him as the EFCC chairman on Tuesday, there were reports of his involvement in corruption. But the commission defended him, saying he had no corruption record. The EFCC Spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, said ...

The Judicial Commission of Inquiry led by Justice Ayo Salami (retd) set up by PresidentbMuhammadu Buhari to investigate the suspended acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, has submitted an interim report to the President. The report was said to have recommended Magu’s sacking. A report by an online medium, TheCable, stated that the President was asked ...

The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itsay Sagay (SAN), on Monday, criticised the Justice Ayo Salami panel probing the allegations of corruption leveled against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and its suspended acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, for taking testimonies of suspects being investigated by the anti-graft agency. Sagay, in a statement titled, ‘Press release by ...

The suspended acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, says some of the vehicles recovered by the EFCC were auctioned to the Presidential Villa, the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development as well as  the Federal Inland Revenue Services and other agencies. He further stated that some of these agencies had not paid ...

… AGF refused to prosecute major graft cases …seized cars, buildings released to suspects A prosecutor with the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for Recovery of Public Property, Oluwatosin Ojaomo, has accused the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), of withholding approval for the prosecution of hundreds of assets forfeiture and other criminal cases. He explained that the cases ...

Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has threatened to go to court over series of allegations against him, the Daily Sun has reported. In a statement by his media aide, Umar Gwandu, Malami said the publications have subjected him to “considerable distress, psychological trauma, anxiety and greatly injured his character and reputation”. The AGF said his ...

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Tayo Oyetibo, has said that the embattled suspended acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, still has rights despite the fact that the commission denied some other suspects their own rights. In a statement made available to NewsProbe on Sunday, Oyetibo said, “On Monday 6 July 2020, it was ...

Lagos lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, has threatened to institute legal action against The Nation newspaper in respect of an article titled, “More Trouble For Magu As New Facts On Re-looting Of Recovered Funds Emerge” which was published on the online version of the newspaper (https://thenationonline.net/breaking-more-trouble-for-Magu-as-new-facts-on-re-looting-of-recovered-funds-emerge/) in the early hours of today, Sunday the 12th day of July, 2020. In ...

A prior presidential panel, which investigated the suspended acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, indicted him, a report published by the News Agency of Nigeria has alleged. The report, according to NAN, noted that the embattled EFCC boss had been unable to account for the interest generated from N550bn cash recovered from 2015 to 2020. The panel ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the suspension of Ibrahim Magu and the appointment of Mohammed Umar as acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Umar, who is the Head of Operations of the anti-graft agency, is to oversee the commission pending conclusion of investigation against erstwhile chair, Ibrahim Magu, over 22 allegations. In a statement on Friday ...