Where is Magu? Used, dumped and forgotten?

You cannot tango with hyenas and not get devoured. Hyenas are vicious; blundering yet pernicious, and jocular yet devious. Hyenas do not live by the rules of the wild; they subsist on the punitive canon of their clans. In fact, infanticide is common among hyenas. They eat their young. They eat their own. So, that […]

Ibrahim Magu: A Case for Fair Hearing

No sincere follower of the purported ongoing investigation of Ibrahim Magu, who was recently forcibly sacked as Acting Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), would not describe the exercise as what it truly is: a charade. An orchestrated extralegal act so brazenly packaged in the worst form of travesty. Without any tinge of […]

Ibrahim Magu: Ramifications of a Complex Story

The Ibrahim Magu story is one that many Nigerians heard, sighed and muttered, it’s normal, we have heard it before. The story is that the apparently incorruptible, fearless over-achieving head of the EFCC has been caught with his hands in the till. The story is spicy, Ibrahim Magu who had been locking up the corrupt […]

Akpabio: Reps Go Tough As Magu Shakes Presidency On EFCC’s Cars Bazaar

A seeming fiendish attempt by the Niger Delta Affairs Minister, Godswill Akpabio, to hoodwink federal legislators to back down from the ongoing probe of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has landed him in trouble. Akpabio unequivocally claimed that 60% of the massive corrupt deals in the messy NDDC were grabbed by lawmakers of the […]

…The devil sometimes laughs at Nigeria

A few years ago I told a friend, and lawyer Barrister Madaki that Nigeria was (and still is) a wonderful and funny place. I told him anytime God wanted to watch comedy He did tune in on Nigeria 101 on the satellite for the best of laughs…not just serious comedic and clowning laughs but those […]

Magugate Scandal: Intelligence Report Implicates Malami, Links Him With Bagudu’s 2023 Presidential Bid

A political risk consultancy, Menas Associates, has implicated the Attorney General of the Federation and Justice Minister, Abubakar Malami, on the Magugate scandal rubbishing the Buhari administration anti-corruption fight. In its latest intelligence report on Nigeria Politics and Security, Menas says the ordeal of the suspended Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission […]

Police writes Magu, insists he is being detained by presidency

The Nigeria Police Force has denied detaining suspended Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu. This was contained in a letter signed by DCP Idowu Owohunwa, Principal Staff Officer to the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu. It was addressed to Magu’s counsel, Tosin Ojaomo, in response to his bail […]

Baba-Inna, Daura & Why It Appears Magu Will Only Get The Boot If Indicted

Let the facts speak for themselves- Was President Buhari aware of a DSS report indicting embattled EFCC boss, Ibrahim Magu of hobnobbing with criminals and even living in a N20M per annum house they paid 2 years for? Yes, he was. Was he also aware that the Police Service Commission found Magu guilty in 2010 […]

Suspended EFCC Boss, Magu shuns police cell, sleeps in Mosque

The suspended acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr Ibrahim Magu, who is currently being probed by the Presidential Investigation Panel over allegations of corruption levelled against him has reportedly shunned the cell of the Force Criminal Investigations Department (FCID) and turned the mosque in the premises of the police headquarters to […]

Magu writes IGP requesting for bail

The suspended Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has written to the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to be released on bail. In a letter dated July 10, 2020, Magu’s legal representative, Oluwatosin Ojaomo, asked Adamu to grant bail to his client on “self-recognizance”. Magu was arrested on Monday […]