Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have besieged the Head office of the Dangote Group of Companies in Lagos State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our correspondent gathered that the search, which commenced at the company\u2019s head office in Lagos around 3 p.m. on Thursday is still ongoing as of the time of filing this report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, revealed that the EFCC is probing the foreign exchange allocations made to about 52 companies, including Dangote Plc, during the tenure of the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe commission (EFCC) is investigating Dangote Plc and about 51 other big companies. The commission discovered that the allocations were not approved by former President Muhammadu Buhari,\u201d the source claimed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When contacted over the development, the spokesperson for the EFCC, Dele Oyewale, confirmed the presence of the anti-graft operatives at the location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, he could not confirm the reason for their presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI can confirm that our men are there, but I can\u2019t comment on the reason for their presence there,\u201d Oyewale said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have besieged the Head office of the Dangote Group of Companies in Lagos State. Our correspondent gathered that the search, which commenced at the company\u2019s head office in Lagos around 3 p.m. on Thursday is still ongoing as of the time of filing this report. A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[646],"class_list":["post-87882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-dangote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87885,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87882\/revisions\/87885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}