Category: Politics

President Buhari has reportedly suspended the acting chairman of EFCC, Ibrahim Magu.

According to reports, Magu was suspended to allow him face the probe into the allegations of corruption leveled against him by the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami.

In June, Malami wrote a letter to President Buhari asking for Magu’s sack. He accused Magu of corruption, diversion of recovered funds, insubordination among other offenses.

On Monday, Magu was invited before a panel probing the allegations. The panel is led by Ayo Salami, retired president of the appeal court.

Some of the 22 allegations Magu is being investigated for include:

Alleged discrepancies in the reconciliation records of the EFCC and the Federal Ministry of Finance on recovered funds
Declaration of N539billion as recovered funds instead of N504b earlier claimed
Insubordination to the office of the AGF by not seeking his approval on some decisions
Not providing enough evidence for the extradition of ex-Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke
Alleged late action on the investigation of Process and Industrial Development (P&ID) leading to legal dispute
Not respecting court order to unfreeze a N7billion judgment in favour of a former Executive Director of First Bank
Alleged delay in acting on two vessels seized by Nigerian Navy leading to the loss of crude
Alleged favouring of some investigators called Magu’s Boys
Reporting some judges to their presiding officers without deferring to the AGF
Alleged sales of seized assets to cronies, associates and friends
Alleged issuance of investigative activities to some media prejudicial to some cases.

Ondo State governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has recovered from the COVID-19 VIRUS.


The governor had announced last week that he was in isolation after testing positive for the highly infectious disease.⁣
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However, he announced during a media briefing on Monday, July 7, 2020 that he has tested negative twice since last week’s announcement.⁣
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Akeredolu is one of six state governors across the country who have been infected by the disease that was first detected in China in December 2019.⁣
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Bauchi’s Governor Bala Mohammed, Kaduna’s Governor Nasir El-Rufai, Oyo’s Governor Seyi Makinde, and Abia’s Governor Okezie Ikpeazu have all been infected, and recovered from the disease.⁣
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Delta’s Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, who also announced that he was infected last week, is yet to recover.⁣
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A total of 28,711 cases of the coronavirus have been detected in Nigeria, with 645 officially declared dead.⁣

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National Vice Chairman North West of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Inuwa Abdulkadir, has died at the age of 54.

Former National Vice Chairman North West of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Inuwa Abdulkadir, has died at the age of 54.

Abdulkadir died at Usman Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto in the early hours of Monday, July 6, after a brief illness.

Abdulkadir was a member of APC’s national working committee that was dissolved recently.

He was also a former Minister of Youth and Sports Development during the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan.

Until his death, Mr. Abdulkadir was the chairman Governing Council of the Sokoto State University.

A bill seeking to strip the president of the powers to order for forfeiture of assets of accused persons has scaled second reading in the House of Representatives..

The discretionary power previously granted to the president to order for forfeiture of assets was on Thursday, July 2, transferred to the judges of a High Court.

The bill, which was passed in plenary, yesterday, July 2, is sponsored by the Deputy Speaker, Mr Ahmed Wase and is entitled “a bill for an act to amend the currency conversion (freezing orders) act cap. C.43, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 to give discretionary powers to the judge of a High Court, to order forfeiture of assets of affected persons and for related matters.”

Presenting the bill, the deputy speaker said, “It is noteworthy that the provision for forfeiture in our laws is geared towards ensuring that persons found guilty of offenses do not benefit from the proceeds of those offences.”