Money Laundering: EFCC Invites ThisDday Publisher Nduka Obaigbena

SaharaReporters has exclusively learned

that the publisher of ThisDay Newspapers,

and Chairman of Newspaper Proprietors

Association of Nigerian (NPAN), Nduka

Obaigbena, was on June 26 invited to the

Economic and Financial Crimes

Commission (EFCC) over what our source

at the agency described as alleged money

laundering.

BY SAHARA REPORTERS

SaharaReporters has exclusively learned that the

publisher of ThisDay Newspapers, and Chairman

of Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigerian

(NPAN), Nduka Obaigbena, was on June 26

invited to the Economic and Financial Crimes

Commission (EFCC) over what our source at the

agency described as alleged money laundering.

Nduka Obaigbena

A copy of the invitation letter obtained by

SaharaReporters shows that Mr. Obaigbena was

scheduled to report at the commission’s

headquarters in Abuja on July 7.

It is unclear if Mr. Obaigbena honored the

invitation. He is currently visiting the United

States.

The kernel of the infraction remains unclear but

sources disclosed that it may be connected

with suspicious transactions running into several

millions of dollars.