{"id":81788,"date":"2026-01-18T05:50:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T05:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81788"},"modified":"2026-01-18T05:50:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T05:50:06","slug":"efcc-writes-swiss-school-in-probe-of-ex-nmdpra-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/18\/efcc-writes-swiss-school-in-probe-of-ex-nmdpra-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"EFCC Writes Swiss School in Probe of Ex-NMDPRA Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has commenced an investigation into a petition against former Managing Director of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), Farouk Ahmed, including plans to write to a Swiss school where his children reportedly studied.<\/p>\n<p>The petition, filed by Dangote Industries Chairman, Aliko Dangote, alleges that about $7 million was spent on the children\u2019s education in Switzerland in violation of the Code of Conduct for Public Officers.<\/p>\n<p>Although Dangote withdrew an earlier petition from the ICPC in January 2026, the EFCC received a fresh petition on July 6.<\/p>\n<p>A senior EFCC official said preliminary investigations are ongoing, noting that the commission is contacting local and international institutions named in the petition before inviting Ahmed.<\/p>\n<p>The official confirmed that the Swiss school may be contacted to verify the claims.<\/p>\n<p>The EFCC said the probe follows standard procedures in investigating alleged misuse of public funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Immaculata The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has commenced an investigation into a petition against former Managing Director of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), Farouk Ahmed, including plans to write to a Swiss school where his children reportedly studied. The petition, filed by Dangote Industries Chairman, Aliko Dangote, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":81789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81790,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81788\/revisions\/81790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}