The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has opened a fresh probe into the controversial Mambilla Hydroelectric Power Project, with a $500,000 payment made by project promoter Leno Adesanya to Jennifer Douglas, former wife of ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar, emerging as one of the key transactions under scrutiny.
The Federal Government on Monday withdrew the eight-count forgery case against Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, the self-appointed Director-General of the alleged non-existent Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC), but said it would institute fresh charges against him before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).