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Justice Salami submits Panel report on Magu

November 20, 2020Bode DoluLeave a Comment

Presidential Panel of Inquiry which was set up to investigate the suspended acting Chairman of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu, submitted its report to the President, Muhammadu Buhari on Friday, according to reports. Retired Justice Ayo Salami who chaired the Panel submitted the report to Buhari at the Presidential Villa, […]

Diezani, Malami, Magu: Shame of a Nation, By Zainab Suleiman Okino

September 16, 2020September 16, 2020Bode DoluLeave a Comment

The former minister of Petroleum, Mrs. Diezani Madueke had not openly spoken, or granted any interview in the last five years that she’s been standing trial in absentia for corruption and embezzlement. But when she did about four weeks ago, she pontificated on morality and social values at a virtual event organised by the Ijaw […]

From now on, I’ll reply every attack point by point ―Magu

July 27, 2020Bode DoluLeave a Comment

The suspended acting chairman of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu has stated that he will henceforth respond to every attack launched against him. Magu who denied misappropriating funds recovered for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in a statement released by his lawyer, Wahab Shittu, averred that the allegations he is […]

Magu, maggots and Maga dogs, By Festus Adedayo

July 13, 2020Bode DoluLeave a Comment

Again, the system felled Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) last week. It had always done that. Olusegun Obasanjo, the maiden president at inception of Nigeria’s fourth republic, first erected the crucifixion upon which a crime-fighting czar was hung. While employing the old Yoruba verbal denunciation of thieves by […]

Electoral corruption is the worst form of corruption -Magu says

April 17, 2019April 17, 2019Bode DoluLeave a Comment

Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has described electoral corruption as the worst form of corruption as it undermines the will of the people and invests power in illegitimate hands. According to Magu, a government that pays its way into power is hardly expected to be accountable; its priority […]

How SANs frustrate the anti-corruption war, evade taxes -Magu

August 27, 2018Bode DoluLeave a Comment

Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) acting Chairman, Mr. Ibrahim Magu has lamented that some Senior Advocates of Nigeria have been frustrating the anti-corruption war. He disclosed that a particular senior advocate received N1.7bn in legal fees from a corrupt politician. Magu said, the same individual received N300m from a South-south governor as legal fees […]