EFCC Collaborate With ALGON On Proof Of Address Initiative

EFCC collaborate with ALGON on proof of address initiative. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria, ALGON have resolved to collaborate in the initiative of providing Nigerians with a new Proof of Address, PoA, which is a database of verifiable addresses of Nigerians for improved national security and economic planning.

The resolution was reached on Wednesday, February 19, 2026 when members of ALGON, led by the Lead Technical Partner, Prince Segun Obayendo and the Deputy Director Political, Office of The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, OSGF, Abdulmajeed Abubakar came on a courtesy visit at EFCC’s headquarters, in Jabi, Abuja.

Secretary to the Commission, Muhammed Hammajoda, who received the delegation on behalf of EFCC’s Executive Chairman, gave the assurance of the anti-graft agency’s collaboration with ALGON in driving the new PoA initiative. “We will key into it and we will drive the process and whatever collaboration you need from now on, we are going to work with you,” he said.

Highlighting the importance of the initiative to EFCC, Hammajoda noted that the POA will help the Commission in identifying owners of properties suspected to be proceeds of crime.

“Proof of Address is always an issue. We have a property and we want to prove its ownership, so address plays a vital role to proof of ownership, whether the individual is there as a tenant or as the owner of the house or even the particular third party, we want when we go to court it will not be contested,” he said.

In his remarks, Abubakar disclosed that the OSGF was in collaboration with ALGON in the PoA scheme, noting that the PoA system is a new initiative, being implemented by the federal government across all the 774 local government areas.

According to him, “it aims at providing every resident with a verifiable and secure address that can be used for good governance, service delivery, boost national security, economic planning and enforce a database of verifiable addresses of Nigerians towards enabling security agencies to track and mitigate criminal activities within the country.”

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He noted that ALGON was the ideal partner to drive the initiative in order to ensure that the PoA system is implemented in all the Nigerian local government areas. “We are all aware that ALGON represents all the 774 local government areas, making it the ideal partner to ensure the Proof of Address system is implemented at the community level. Secondly, we have policy coordination.

The OSGF oversees the activity and roll out of the PoA system across all the 774 local governments and stakeholders’ engagements in the sense of meeting and other things. The OSGF ensures that MDAs adopt the PoA as they are required for official addresses,” he said.

On his part, Obayendo disclosed that the concept of PoA was about establishing a citizen’s accurate location, and demography, adding that part of what is needed is a National Identification Number, NIN, to provide the PoA of an individual.

Dele Oyewale

Head, Media & Publicity

Electoral Law: ADC Vows To Mobilise Nigerians, Says “Tinubu Has Corrupted Democracy”

Electoral Law: ADC vows to mobilise Nigerians, says “Tinubu has corrupted democracy”. The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has said President Bola Tinubu’s hasty assent to the controversial Electoral Act Amendment has corrupted Nigeria’s democracy and is akin to signing the death warrant of credible election in the country.

In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the ADC questioned the undue haste with which the president signed the bill into law even in the face of widespread objections by citizens across the country, declaring it as part of the ruling party’s elaborate scheme to rig the 2027 election.

The party declared that with this move, the APC has drawn the battle line between the ruling party and Nigerians and vowed to mobilise citizens to frustrate rigging by any means necessary.

LThe full statement read:

With the alarmingly speedy assent to the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has signed the death warrant on credible elections and by so doing set Nigeria’s democracy back by several decades.

At a time when Nigerians across generations and political affiliations are calling for stronger accountability and the full modernization of our electoral system, it is sad to see a president who likes to boast of his pro-democracy credentials hurriedly approving amendments that not only fail to improve citizens’ confidence in the electoral process.

In signing the bill into law, the President claimed to be consolidating the country’s democracy, but in reality, he has simply corrupted it further by introducing ambiguity and permitting excessive discretion in the collation and transmission process.

It is quite instructive that despite claiming to control more than 30 state governments and commanding a majority in both chambers of the National Assembly, the extraordinary haste with which this amendment was passed and signed raises the unavoidable question of why a government that wrongly boasts about being so politically dominant would rush changes to the electoral framework unless it harbors deep-seethed doubts about submitting itself to a truly transparent and competitive process.

By refusing to slow down, listen, and meaningfully engage the concerns of Nigerians, President Tinubu and the APC-led National Assembly have shown that they are afraid of what the Nigerian people will do to them in a free and fair election, and they have reacted by demonstrating outright disregard for the very citizens whose mandate sustains their democratic authority.

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) is also deeply concerned about what this amendment portends for Nigeria’s forthcoming elections. In the absence of firm guarantees of electronic transparency, vigilant citizens may feel compelled to physically safeguard their votes to prevent discrepancies between polling units and collation centres, as has been witnessed in the past.

No government that is confident in its democratic mandate and cares about its citizens should place its people in a position that risks heightening tension during elections.

In this regard, the ADC wishes to pass the following message to all Nigerians, friends of Nigeria, and the world at large:

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As a duly constituted political party in the Federal Republic of Nigeria, with the actions taken by President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday, 18th February, moving forward, the ADC affirms in the strongest and clearest possible terms that we are ready, willing, and prepared to defend the sanctity of Nigeria’s democracy using every constitutional and lawful means available to us.

We will mobilize Nigerians toward vigilance, toward lawful participation, and toward unity in defense of their constitutional rights. We stand firm in the belief that the will of the people must prevail and that no law, however hastily enacted, can extinguish the democratic aspirations of a free nation.

Signed:

Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi
National Publicity Secretary
African Democratic Congress (ADC)

EFCC Boss Olukoyede Links Corruption To Non- Compliance With Laws

EFCC boss Olukoyede links corruption to non- compliance with laws. The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede has linked the menace of corruption and poverty in the country to non-compliance with laws.

He disclosed this on Thursday, February 19, 2026 when the executives of Fiscal Responsibility Commission, FRC, led by the Chairman, Victor Chinemerem Muruako signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU on collaboration with the EFCC at the anti-graft’s corporate headquarters in Jabi, Abuja.

The EFCC boss noted in his remarks that it was important for him that the country moved forward, regretting, however, that the major obstacle was the general aversion for compliance with rules and regulations. “One of our major challenges is compliance with laws. If our institutions, our agencies and Nigerians are made to comply with our laws, even if at a rate of 70 to 80% compliance with laws, Nigeria will not be where it is today because the resources are there.”

He drew support for this assertion from his experiences on the job. “I can tell you this by the work I do and what I see every day. I know this country is blessed. We don’t have any business with poverty, only because people don’t take laws seriously. We don’t take enforcement seriously. They don’t take compliance seriously. That’s why we are where we are.”

Olukoyede expressed joy at the increased window of collaboration the signing of the MoU will bring about in the working relationship between EFCC and FRC, especially in the area of joint investigation team, which he observed could draw FRC to the forefront of the anti-corruption fight. “We can set up a joint investigation team and both agencies will be at the forefront of the fight which is for me, very key.”

The enhanced cooperation, he observed, would ensure better cleansing of the contract and procurement processes of the MDAs, their budgets as well as their better compliance to laws. “I welcome this collaboration, I welcome this synergy and I believe Nigeria and the general public will benefit from it.

We want to see our budgetary processes tidied up. We want to see our procurement and contract processes tidied up as well and compliance with the laws,” he said.

He further noted that a visible collaboration of the EFCC and FRC will send the signal across to the public that it’s no longer business as usual and pointed to the need to put the MoU into function. According to him, “By signing this MOU we will be having access to your reports. If the two of us work together, we will be able to sanitize this system to a reasonable extent. It’s not just for us to sign an MoU, it’s important for us to operationalize it.”

While urging the FRC to rise to the occasion in seeing through the budget implementation of MDAs as a regulator, he noted that 80% of the country’s public corruption could be avoided if the sanctity of procurement and contract processes is ensured.

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He noted that the Financial Action Task Force, FATF was able to delist Nigeria from its Grey list as a result of hard work of anti-corruption agencies in the area of enhanced money laundering and terrorist financing monitoring, noting that the agencies are prepared to do much more.

Muruako in his own remarks also expressed delight and optimism with the MoU and praised Olukoyede and the EFCC for superlative performance in the fight against corruption, economic and financial crimes.

“I commend you. I also commend your team for working hard. I’m very proud of your agency. I feel fulfilled that eventually this MoU is being signed today. And I want to assure you on behalf of the Fiscal Responsibility Commission that it will be a lot of encouragement to our commission.

It will help us know that we are really working with you one-on-one. It is not just the FRC that would be enriched, this hydra-headed element called corruption would cut off,” he said.