Now Nigeria's own anti-corruption investigators under Nuhu Ribadu have started probing illegal payments in the oil and gas sector which was previously forbidden territory...
It will also block the promotion of Nuhu Ribadu who was tipped for the IG's job...
He was a driving force among the team of reformers during President Olusegun Obasanjo's second term: Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Education Minister Obi Ezekwesili anti-corruption czar Nuhu Ribadu and Director General of the Bureau for Public Enterprise Irene Chigbue...
The incumbent Federal Capital Minister Nasir el-Rufai and the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Nuhu Ribadu will get key posts...
However some months ago the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Nuhu Ribadu assured journalists that he would be presenting Odili with a dossier outlining his misuse of state funds over the past eight years...
Within its ranks the PDP has even tolerated a group of reformers led by Federal Capital Territory Minister Nasir el-Rufai and Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Nuhu Ribadu who speak of a permanent revolution and of changing the face of Nigeria...
EFCC Chairman Nuhu Ribadu insists that the investigation must proceed given that the sacked Bayelsa Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha is being held on corruption charges which have forced Odili's ally Rotimi Amaechi off the State ticket...
Both Yar'Adua and Buhari support the work of Nuhu Ribadu Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission...
Significantly Buhari warmly praised Nuhu Ribadu of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for his dogged pursuit of corrupt officials although many other opposition politicians have accused Ribadu of operating a political agenda for Obasanjo...
Vol 48 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
One of the few genuinely popular public officials in Nigeria Nuhu Ribadu head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission will be a key player in the electoral cycle...