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Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, stormed the Lagos Head Office of the Dangote Group. According to TheCable, the anti-graft agency’s operatives were carrying out a search on forex allocations to the company during the tenure of Godwin Emefiele as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, declined comments on the development. However, a Dangote employee confirmed that EFCC operatives were at the company’s head office. “They asked for documents on forex transactions with the CBN,” the employee said.

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has explained how an undercover reporter breached its system and got mobilised for the scheme even after serving in 2019. Days after the report went viral, the spokesman of the NYSC Eddy Megwa explained that the reporter used different phone numbers to beat the system. “It is not that we don’t have checks and balances in place to detect possible breaches of the system. When the undercover reporter first put in his data, the system rejected him because he had served in the scheme before. He later changed his email address and his phone number which made the system to accept him. And he was initially posted to Osun State,” he said on Thursday’s edition of Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily. “He did that because he was out for a particular purpose. We are looking at the situation and ensure that it does not happen again. We don’t have a database of graduates to serve in the scheme. We only rely on the lists sent to us by the senates of the various ...