{"id":200811,"date":"2025-06-24T08:13:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T06:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-efcc-arrests-ex-nnpc-top-official-others-over-alleged-7-2-billion-refineries-maintenance-fraud\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T08:13:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T06:13:18","slug":"nigeria-efcc-arrests-ex-nnpc-top-official-others-over-alleged-7-2-billion-refineries-maintenance-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-efcc-arrests-ex-nnpc-top-official-others-over-alleged-7-2-billion-refineries-maintenance-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: EFCC Arrests Ex-NNPC Top Official, Others Over Alleged $7.2 Billion Refineries Maintenance Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><em>According to the sources, Mr Isa was detained by the agency along with a former Managing Director of Warri Refinery, Jimoh Olasunkanmi.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/efcc.gov.ng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Economic and Financial Crimes Commission<\/a><\/strong> (EFCC) has arrested a former Chief Financial Officer of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/business\/business-news\/802800-nnpc-increases-petrol-price.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation<\/a><\/strong>, (NNPC) Limited, Umar Ajiya Isa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">PREMIUM TIMES, on Monday, learnt from the commission&#8217;s officials briefed on the development, that Mr Isa was arrested in connection with alleged $7.2billion fraud associated with the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506240062.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>According to the sources, Mr Isa was detained by the agency along with a former Managing Director of Warri Refinery, Jimoh Olasunkanmi. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a former Chief Financial Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, (NNPC) Limited, Umar Ajiya Isa. PREMIUM TIMES, on Monday, learnt from the commission&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":200812,"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":[258,256,4305,7845,6495,11129,51721,8666,13502,257,4687,393,5092,21952,254,7319],"class_list":["post-200811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleged","tag-arrests","tag-billion","tag-efcc","tag-exnnpc","tag-fraud","tag-maintenance","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-official","tag-refineries","tag-south-africa-today","tag-top"],"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\/200811","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=200811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}