{"id":193852,"date":"2025-03-18T15:52:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T13:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-alleged-n10bn-fraud-akume-distances-self-from-aide-under-efcc-probe\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T15:52:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T13:52:46","slug":"nigeria-alleged-n10bn-fraud-akume-distances-self-from-aide-under-efcc-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-alleged-n10bn-fraud-akume-distances-self-from-aide-under-efcc-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Alleged N10bn Fraud &#8211; Akume Distances Self From Aide Under EFCC Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\"><em>The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator George Akume, has distanced himself from his Personal Assistant, Andrew Torhile Uchi, who is currently under investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The Director, Information and Public Relations in the Office of the SGF, Segun Imohiosen, said this on Monday in a statement in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Uchi is being investigated over allegations of corruption, bribery, and money laundering to the tune of over N10 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503180232.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>The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Senator George Akume, has distanced himself from his Personal Assistant, Andrew Torhile Uchi, who is currently under investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The Director, Information and Public Relations in the Office of the SGF, Segun Imohiosen, said this on Monday in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":193853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,16363,23658,4305,15762,11129,8666,50427,257,4687,393,5805,254],"class_list":["post-193852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aide","tag-akume","tag-alleged","tag-distances","tag-efcc","tag-fraud","tag-n10bn","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-probe","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/193852","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=193852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}