{"id":8351,"date":"2025-12-11T05:43:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/?p=8351"},"modified":"2025-12-11T05:43:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:43:45","slug":"ngige-arrested-by-efcc-not-kidnapped-ex-aide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/12\/11\/ngige-arrested-by-efcc-not-kidnapped-ex-aide\/","title":{"rendered":"Ngige arrested by EFCC, not kidnapped &#8211; Ex-aide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/images6-1-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/images6-1-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/images6-1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Amah<br \/>\nKindly share:<\/p>\n<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested Dr. Chris Ngige, the former Minister of Labour and Employment.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fred Chukwulobe, his former aide, Ngige was not kidnapped as being rumoured.<\/p>\n<p>Chukwulobe said he had received several calls over claims that the former Anambra State governor was abducted.<\/p>\n<p>However, he clarified that Ngige was arrested by the EFCC and assisting investigators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNgige is with the EFCC. He was not abducted or kidnapped,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The former Anambra governor has been under intense scrutiny from anti-graft agencies. <\/p>\n<p>He was drilled by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, in 2024 over alleged contract irregularities at the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF, an agency that was under his ministry. <\/p>\n<p>The former minister&#8217;s convoy was recently attacked by armed men in Anambra State, leaving two injured while one passer-by was killed.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ngige was not present at the time of the attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Amah Kindly share: The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested Dr. Chris Ngige, the former Minister of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1706],"class_list":["post-8351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-dr-chris-ngige"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ngige arrested by EFCC, not kidnapped - Ex-aide - Panorama News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/12\/11\/ngige-arrested-by-efcc-not-kidnapped-ex-aide\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ngige arrested by EFCC, not kidnapped - Ex-aide - Panorama News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Amah Kindly share: The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested Dr. Chris Ngige, the former Minister of&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/12\/11\/ngige-arrested-by-efcc-not-kidnapped-ex-aide\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Panorama News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/panoramanewsng\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-12-11T05:43:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/images6-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"299\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/12\/11\/ngige-arrested-by-efcc-not-kidnapped-ex-aide\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/12\/11\/ngige-arrested-by-efcc-not-kidnapped-ex-aide\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/#\/schema\/person\/193c6b5ed75edb6cc8b07827dd05f83d\"},\"headline\":\"Ngige arrested by EFCC, not kidnapped &#8211; 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