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Nigeria’s Tinubu forces security chiefs out in reshuffle

Nigeria’s Tinubu forces security chiefs out in reshuffle

NIGERIA'S President Bola Tinubu forced out the country's security chiefs and the head of police on Monday and replaced them with new appointments, in a major reshuffle of the country's defence forces. Tinubu, who was sworn into office on May 29, has named new commanders of the defence forces, army, and navy air force with immediate effect, the secretary to the government of the federation said in a statement. Nigeria's military has been fighting Islamist insurgents in the northeast for more than a decade, and banditry and kidnappings in the northwest as insecurity has spread to most parts of the…
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Nigeria’s president nominates new head of anti-graft agency

Nigeria’s president nominates new head of anti-graft agency

NIGERIA's president nominated a career employee to head the country's anti-graft agency after the previous chief was ousted amid corruption allegations, his office has announced. Abdulrasheed Bawa President Muhammadu Buhari's nomination of Abdulrasheed Bawa, a regional head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), comes seven months after he suspended previous chief Ibrahim Magu amid allegations that he had diverted funds recovered by the agency into private pockets. The EFCC is tasked with investigating and prosecuting graft in Africa's largest oil exporter and its biggest economy, which has grappled with endemic corruption for decades. If confirmed by the Senate,…
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