{"id":184703,"date":"2024-11-16T10:33:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T08:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-supreme-court-dismisses-state-governments-suit-against-efcc-icpc-nfiu-rebukes-kogi-others\/"},"modified":"2024-11-16T10:33:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T08:33:39","slug":"nigeria-supreme-court-dismisses-state-governments-suit-against-efcc-icpc-nfiu-rebukes-kogi-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-supreme-court-dismisses-state-governments-suit-against-efcc-icpc-nfiu-rebukes-kogi-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Supreme Court Dismisses State Governments&#8217; Suit Against EFCC, ICPC, NFIU, Rebukes Kogi, Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><em>In a stinging rebuke, the Supreme Court described the state governments that filed the case as selfish.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the challenging the establishment and prosecutorial powers of key anti-corruption agencies &#8211; Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Independent Corruption Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) and the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), as well as another related anti-graft agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">A seven-member panel led by Uwani&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411150378.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a stinging rebuke, the Supreme Court described the state governments that filed the case as selfish. The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the challenging the establishment and prosecutorial powers of key anti-corruption agencies &#8211; Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Independent Corruption Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) and the Nigerian Financial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":184704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,6185,12843,11129,6201,22258,10662,257,49993,4687,393,31233,254,6017,7628,9498],"class_list":["post-184703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-court","tag-dismisses","tag-efcc","tag-governments","tag-icpc","tag-kogi","tag-news","tag-nfiu","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-rebukes","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state","tag-suit","tag-supreme"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}