Saraki Meets Magu, Describes EFCC’s New Head Office as Fantastic

The Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, on Tuesday, May 8, 2018 commended the quality of infrastructure put in place at the new head office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, describing the edifice as the best one can get anywhere. “I don’t think any project has been funded like this in Abuja. The facilities have been impressive. The structural work and level of finish is satisfactory, and considering the important role the EFCC plays in the fight against corruption, I think the agency deserves the best”, he said.…

PSC Promotes Magu, Others to Next Ranks

The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the promotion of the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), DCP Ibrahim Magu, to the rank of Commissioner of Police. A statement from the PSC Head of Press and Public Relations, Mr Ikechukwu Ani, revealed that the commission also promoted 17 other senior police officers. The promotions were one of the high points of the commission’s 27th plenary meeting which ended on Friday in Abuja, the nation’s capital. The meeting was presided over by Chairman of the PSC and…

Magu Urges Faith-based Organizations to support Anti-Graft War

The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Mustapha Magu has called on faith-based organizations to rise to the occasion in the fight against corruption by teaching their faithful moral uprightness and integrity. Magu who spoke through the Head, Ibadan Zonal office of the Commission, Mr. Mohammed Rabo, 17th March, 2018 at the 7th Tri-Ennial National Delegate Conference of the National Council of Muslim Youth Organizations, observed that, “Every religion teaches the fear of God and abhors every behavioural digression that promotes moral decadence, impurity…

Magu Escapes Assassination Attempt

Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu on Tuesday night escaped death by the whiskers as some gunmen stormed his house in Abuja. However, upon their failure to find the EFCC boss in the house, they killed one of the police guards attached to the house and disappeared, PM news reported. According to findings, the gunmen stormed the farmhouse in Karshi in the Federal Capital Territory at about 10pm and exchanged fire with the policemen on duty, The Nation reports A police Sergeant was hit…

Magu Tasks Media on Anti-corruption War

The Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,Ibrahim Magu, has called on the media to complement the work of the anti-corruption agencies, describing the role of the media as vital in the fight against corruption in Nigeria. “The media occupy unique place in the fight against corruption and impunity in Nigeria. As the Fourth Estate of the Realm, the media is the only profession that is constitutionally mandated to hold the nation’s leaders to account”, he said. Magu made the appeal in a keynote address delivered on Monday, November…

Falana: EFCC Replies To Fayose

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has reacted to an attempt by the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, to impugn the integrity of its Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, over the management of assets recovered from pension fraud suspects. The governor, who addressed the media today in Ado Ekiti, was quoted as saying that respected Lagos lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, “was one of many highly placed Nigerians who allegedly were compensated by the EFCC and Ibrahim Magu with properties retrieved from corrupt government officials.” This is the…

Businessman Convicted Of N23.5m Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, Gombe zonal office, secured the conviction of one Muhammad Abubakar Mubi to six months imprisonment before Justice M. J. Umar of the Federal High Court, Gombe on one count charge bordering on Obtaining Money by False Pretence. Mubi, the managing director of A. M. Global Energy Limited with offices in Lagos and Kaduna was arrested sometime in 2012 following a complaint by one Bello Muhammad Malala of Ashaka Cement Gombe, alleging that in 2009, one Hassan Zankan introduced him to the convict who…