Obasanjo's first corruption-buster-in-chief was Nuhu Ribadu in 2003...
In a November 2012 report on financial malpractice and revenue losses in the local oil industry the former Chairman of Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Nuhu Ribadu estimated that 6-30% of daily production was stolen...
The defection to the PDP of Nuhu Ribadu former Chairman of the EFCC on 17 August was a major blow to the opposition's critique of Jonathan and his party...
His first term ended abruptly when he and his deputy were impeached by the State Assembly in October 2006 for grand corruption charges based on a probe by Nuhu Ribadu then Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission...
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Younger northern Muslim APC activists such as ex-minister Nasir El-Rufai or former anti-corruption czar Nuhu Ribadu are more popular in the south but lack Buhari's formidable support base in the north...
Eighteen months earlier Allison-Madueke parried a report by the former anti-corruption czar Nuhu Ribadu which claimed that some $100 bn...
Last year the NNPC and the Petroleum Minister failed to respond to similar concerns voiced by former anti-corruption czar Nuhu Ribadu and effectively buried his report...
No action has been taken on last year's report from a committee led by ex-corruption czar Nuhu Ribadu which estimated revenue losses of $US100 billion over the past decade (AC Vol 53 No 22 The $100 billion bash)...
Nor has Allison-Madueke provided any progress update on government reaction to a report produced a year ago by the former anti-corruption czar Nuhu Ribadu which calculated that Nigeria had lost as much as $100 bn in oil and gas revenues over the past decade (AC Vol 54 No 11 Blocking the great reform bill)...
Meanwhile well connected companies and officials continue to benefit from an opaque system of management and operation that has allowed as much as US$100 billion to be siphoned off from state oil and gas revenue over the past decade according to a report drawn up by the former anti-corruption czar Nuhu Ribadu (AC Vol 53 No 9 Opposition on all fronts)...