The management of www.theledgerng.com hereby retracts its stories: "Multi-millionaire Civil Servant, Mamman Drags Newspaper Coy To Court"; and "Corrupt Civil Servant, Idris  Mamman  Gags  Newspaper". We have, on further checks found to our dismay that the source documents which instigated the stories were fictitious and concocted by certain persons who had personal issues of contention against Mr. Mamman.

 Indeed, there are currently no petitions against Mr Idris Mamman either at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC;  Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, ICPC; Code of Conduct of Bureau, CCB, the POlice  or any panel of inquiry. He is not being investigated in any manner to our knowledge.

 Our error stems from the fact that in the course of investigating the stories, we were regretfully misdirected by certain representatives of Mr. Mamman. Nonetheless, we owe our readers the responsibility of 'fair, accurate, unbiased and factual' reports. And since  the above  stories failed to meet this professional standards, we are compelled to retract and desist.

 We sincerely apologise to Mr Idris Mamman, and regrets any inconvenience he may have suffered as a result of our stories

 We equally apologise to our numerous readers who may have been misled by the story, our stakeholders and the general public.  The intention was neither to demean his person, professional integrity or ridicule him. Our intent was without malice or any personal percuniary  interest or otherwise.

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Editor 
for management, www.theledgerng.com