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Barcelona are in discussions with Manchester City for former youth academy player Eric Garcia. Garcia wants to leave the club and move back to Spain; he has one year left on his contract. Manchester City centre-back Eric Garcia wants to move to Barcelona according to reputed journalist Guillem Balague. Eric Garcia has been linked with a move to Barcelona for some weeks now. Initially, it was reported that Barcelona’s advances had been turned down. Barcelona in talks with Manchester City for Garcia Barcelona are said to be in talks with Manchester City for Garcia. The centre-back only has one year left on…

Jide Ojo The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission was established in 2003 by the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. According to information gleaned from its website, the EFCC Act mandates the commission to combat financial and economic crimes and also to prevent, investigate, prosecute and penalise economic and financial crimes. The commission  is  as well charged with the responsibility of enforcing the provisions of other laws and regulations relating to economic and financial crimes, including: Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Establishment Act (2004), The Money Laundering Act 1995, The Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act 2004, The Advance Fee Fraud and…

Lekan Sote Though Bola Tinubu, former Governor of Lagos State and National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, denies intention to run for President in 2023, there is everything in his body language that suggests otherwise. After grandly declaring, “I have no decision regarding 2023,” he threw a curve, “2023 will answer its own question in due time.” If that is not a subtle hint about his intention to run, nothing will ever be. This speculation compels the need to find out if he has a national political structure that can carry his vision to all the nook…

Some policemen attached to the Force Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department on Tuesday searched the home of the suspended acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu. Also on Tuesday, the Justice Ayo Salami Presidential Panel, which interrogated Magu on Monday over allegations of corruption, again quizzed the suspended EFCC boss. The suspended EFCC boss, who was detained by the police after Monday’s interrogation, was returned to the police custody at 8:30pm on Tuesday. But earlier at 6pm, policemen searched   Magu’s house located on Abduljalil Street, Karu Site, on the outskirts of Abuja and made away with…

•Panel recommends his suspension •Security agents search residence, detain him at FCID •Presidency says EFCC boss not above probe The travail of Acting Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Magu, persisted yesterday as the presidential investigation of his alleged wrongdoing entered the fourth week with widespread speculation that he might have been suspended by President Muhammadu Buhari. Although there was no official confirmation of the speculated suspension, a reliable presidency source told THISDAY last night that the presidential panel has recommended that the anti-graft boss stands down pending the outcome of the investigation. That…

Pep Guardiola has urged his Manchester City side to cut out individual errors or risk finishing the season with a whimper. City lost their Premier League crown to Liverpool last month but can still add the FA Cup and the Champions League to their League Cup win in March. The dethroned champions, who host Newcastle on Wednesday, have lost nine league matches this season, including a 1-0 defeat to Southampton at the weekend. That compares with just six Premier League defeats combined in the previous two seasons, as City were twice crowned English champions. Guardiola’s team face Arsenal in the…

The embattled acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, spent the night in police custody on the orders of a presidential panel probing alleged infractions against him. PREMIUM TIMES reported how Mr Magu was arrested in front of the EFCC office in Abuja by security officials on Monday. He was taken to the Presidential Villa, Abuja, where he appeared before a presidential panel investigating alleged corruption and insubordination. The allegations of insubordination and ‘relooting of recovered funds’ were levelled against him by the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami. In separate statements Monday, the SSS denied arresting the…

By Tunde Fagbohunlu A Case for a Radical Approach to Tackling Court Delays through Constitutional Reform This article asserts that, the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria unwittingly contributes to many of the inefficiencies in Nigeria’s justice system. Without doubt, there are other collaborators, including the shenanigans of litigants and their Lawyers, a poor framework of rules and institutions to enforce ethics, and the absence of a business-like approach among Judges and Lawyers which we often see in the obsession with technicalities and ceremony, at the expense of substance and despatch. But, the 1999 Constitution plays a significant…

The Acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibrahim Magu has been invited before a panel probing the activities of the agency. The panel is reportedly sitting at the Banquet Hall wing of the Presidential Villa. Magu was stopped in traffic while moving out of the Wuse II Annex of the EFCC in Abuja and the invitation was extended to him. Although Magu was on his way to the Force Headquarters and pleaded with an officer from FCID who met with him to honour the scheduled appointment. But he was told the invitation by the panel was…

Obadiah Mailafia About a fortnight ago, we received the shocking news that the Nigerian High Commission staff buildings in Accra were levelled to the ground by a Ghanaian businessman, claiming that the edifice had been erected on his own land. He brought papers claiming ownership of the land. Apparently, our legation could not show proof of ownership — a big embarrassment. Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama, issued a press statement saying that the demolition was the handiwork of criminals. Many Nigerians have been understandably outraged. Many have called for retaliation in kind. However, the Presidency tersely maintains that they would not…