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Magu remains acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and cannot be removed by anybody. Ibrahim Magu The  Acting President Yemi Osinbajo fired back at the Senate yesterday. The declaration was an apparent response to the lawmakers who had on Tuesday warned that any further move from him to undermine the powers of the legislative arm of government will amount to crossing the red line. The Red Chamber relied on a comment made by acting president some months ago to suspend further confirmation of appointees of the president. The lawmakers chided the executive arm of government for refusing to strictly adhere to legislative decisions in particular and the 1999 constitution (as amended) in general. But speaking in Kaduna yesterday while commissioning a zonal office of the EFCC, the acting president who was represented by the governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, described Magu as a “nightmare for corrupt people”. The governor...

“We know they are not ready, but they are ready to rig the election. They just want to sit down somewhere and write the results and we are also planning how to counter that. We are very, very ready to win that election. The party Chairman, Chief Segun Adewale, who addressed journalists at the PDP secretariat at Sogunle, Ikeja alongside the secretary, Mr Jide Ladeinde, affirmed that the PDP was very ready for the council election, saying that it was very obvious that the APC was not so ready. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Lagos chapter has insisted that the upcoming local government election holding on Jul 22, 2017 in all the 20 local governments and 37 local council development areas (LCDAs) in the state must come up, saying the exercise must not be postponed irrespective of the intra crisis within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Aggrieved APC aspirants to the councillorship and chairmanship posts together with their supporters across the state are curren...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned a former Acting Vice-Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Prof. Anthony Elujoba before