{"id":47022,"date":"2021-02-24T19:37:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T18:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=47022"},"modified":"2021-02-24T19:37:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T18:37:17","slug":"senate-confirms-bawa-as-efcc-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/senate-confirms-bawa-as-efcc-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Confirms Bawa As EFCC Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate, after a two-hour session on Wednesday at plenary confirmed the appointment of Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa as Chairman of the Economic and Financial Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Bawa was nominated for the role by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during the screening, the new Chairman denied an allegation that he sold the seized property in EFCC custody at its Port Harcourt Zonal office.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>He said the seized property in Port Harcourt were properly disposed off by the agency\u2019s officials from its headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate, after a two-hour session on Wednesday at plenary confirmed the appointment of Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa as Chairman of the Economic and Financial Commission.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":47023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[8251],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-47022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-business","category-news","tag-efcc-chairman"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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