UPDATED: COURT GRANTS FORMER MINISTER NGIGE ADMINISTRATIVE BAIL

December 18, 2025December 18, 2025

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Justice Mariam Hassan from the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Gwarinpa has decided that the former Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, can keep the administrative bail given to him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

The court, however, told him to provide a surety who is a director working in a Federal Government job and who already owns property.

This surety needs to give the court documents proving they own the property and their travel papers while the process to get Ngige’s passport is being finished.

The EFCC had allowed Ngige to be released on bail based on his own statement and asked him to give his travel documents to the commission as well as one surety.

The former Anambra State governor had been remanded at the Kuje Correctional Centre.

The former minister had been arraigned on an eight-count charge of alleged corrupt practices to tune of ₦2.2bn.

According to the charge dated October 31 and filed on December 9 by a team of lawyers, led by Sylvanus Tahir (SAN), Ngige was alleged to have committed the offences while serving as Minister of Labour under the ex-President Muhammadu Buhari.

He pleaded not guilty to all the charges.