Tag: EFCC

BREAKING: EFCC Chairman, AbdulRasheed Bawa, slumps

Aliyu Aliyu

Here is EFCC’s official account of how it all happened The Chairman of Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, Abdulrasheed Bawa, has reportedly slumped. Platforms Africa gathered that the youngest Chairman in the History of EFCC slumped at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Nigeria’s administrative capital. READ ALSO: Why EFCC Is Yet To Arrest Tinubu — Bawa Opens Up on Trial of Top Politician Missing N603m: Assistant Director Commits Suicide After EFCC Summon BREAKING: EFCC boss, AbdulRasheed Bawa, slumps Bawa was, on Thursday, said to be speaking to dignitaries at the Banquet Hall…

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EFCC advances Nadabo Energy Trial Over N1.4 bn fuel subsidy Scam

Efe Wellington

EFCC Boss Laments Slow Fuel Subsidy Trials   Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has advanced in the trial of Nadabo Energy in an on-going probe of an alleged N1.4 billion fuel subsidy trial involving the oil firm. Platforms Africa reports that Chairman of the agency, Abdulrasheed Bawa, who is leading the probe, lamented the slow pace of some fuel subsidy trials in the nation’s courts. Bawa, expressed this at the Ikeja High Court in Lagos after testifying in an alleged N1.4 billion fuel subsidy trial…

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How EFCC seized N14.6b jewellery, $80m Mansion from ex-Oil minister Diezani

Dawood Rabiu

  Though ‘Diezani’s jewellery, mansion,’ have been finally forfeited to the Federal Government, here is why the EFCC couldn’t dare to auction them   The Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), has given details  on how it seized jewellery worth N14 billion from former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Allison-Madueke. The EFCC Chairman, Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, made this known at the House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating the assessment and status of recovered loot on Friday in Abuja.   READ ALSO: JUST IN: EFCC Takes Over Nestoil…

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EFCC recovers over N1bn Cash from One Civil Servant

Aliyu Aliyu

  The Chairman of the Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, has disclosed that the agency last week recovered over N1 billion cash sitting in one bank account from a civil servant. The EFCC boss made this while appearing before the Senate Committee on Finance investigating the Internally Generated Revenue and payment of 1 % stamp duty by contractors on all contracts awarded by MDAs between 2014- 2020. He said, “There are a lot of leakages we need to block, it is not about generating…

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Confusion in EFCC as Bola Tinubu assets’ file disappears from CCB vault

Gbenga Adeoti

The case file of top Nigerian politician and a former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju  Bola Tinubu, has reportedly disappeared from the storage facility of  the Code of Conduct Bureau that has held it for years. This has simultaneously caused confusion at the Economic and Finacial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which had begun a fresh probe into the allegation of graft against Tinubu. Three officials familiar with the matter said that the bureau started looking for Tinubu’s asset filings after the EFCC requested copies as part of an ongoing investigation into…

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EFCC offers $9.7m, £74, 000 seized from NNPC ex-GMD for Court inspection

Dawood Rabiu

  The Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has urged the Federal High Court, Abuja, to visit the Kano branch of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to inspect the hard currency ( $9.7 million and £74, 000) seized from the former Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Andrew Yakubu. Counsel to the EFCC, Mohammed Abubakar, while moving a motion filed on Nov. 17, 2020, before Justice Ahmed Mohammed, also urged the court to conduct proceedings in the premises of the bank…

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