I rejected N500m offers when I buried my mother ―Olukoyede, EFCC chair

Chairman of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Olanipekun Olukoyede, disclosed that he turned down offers of about N500m from various individuals during his mother’s funeral in 2019. Olukoyede spoke at the 38th Anti-Corruption Situation Room in Abuja on Thursday which was organised by the Human and Environmental Development Agenda Resource Centre, Kano State […]

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Can Olukoyede Renew Our Faith in the EFCC?, By Simon Kolawole

A year ago, Mr Olanipekun Olukoyede, chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), openly lamented the “craze and quest for gratification, bribes and other compromises” by some of the commission’s investigators. “They are becoming too embarrassing and this must not continue,” he said. Monday last week, the EFCC dismissed 27 officials over alleged […]

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Olukoyede, Hammajoda confirmed as EFCC chairman, secretary by Nigerian Senate

Nigerian Senate has confirmed the nomination of Ola Olukoyede and Mohammed Hamajoda as the Chairman and Secretary of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), respectively. Confirmed also along with the duo was Halima Shehu, as the chief executive officer (CEO) of the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA). Olukoyede was named acting chairman of […]

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Bola Tinubu appoints Olukoyede as EFCC Chairman

President Bola Tinubu on Thursday approved the appointment of Mr. Ola Olukoyede to serve as the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for a renewable term of four years in the first instance, pending Senate confirmation. This is coming nearly four months after he suspended the erstwhile anti-graft agency chief, Mr Abdulrasheed […]

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