By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) has organized a one day investigative training workshop for journalists on effective reporting of money laundering and terrorism financing. NATIONAL ACCORD reports that the workshop was held on Thursday at EFCC Zonal Command’ Conference Hall in Maiduguri....
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The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), says it has achieved a lot in eradicating economic and financial crimes in Nigeria. Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, the Chairman EFCC, said this on Thursday in Maiduguri when he declared open a workshop on Economic and Financial Crimes Reporting for Journalists in Maiduguri...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says conviction figures from economic and financial crime prosecutions in 2023 are rising across various commands of the commission. Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa, Executive Chairman of the commission, made the disclosure on Thursday in Benin during a one-day training on effective reporting of...
The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) on Thursday in Abuja charged students of tertiary institutions to steer clear of internet fraud to accelerate national development. Its spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, quoted the Executive Chairman of the EFCC, Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, as giving the charge at the inauguration of...
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State says he won’t leave office on May 29, 2023 to “run away” from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The governor and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s strongman said he has nothing to fear if the anti-graft agency comes to probe his administration....
The Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, says the commission will work to strengthen existing collaboration with Air Force Institute of Techology (AFIT) on cyber security studies. A statement by EFCC Spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren said Bawa made the commitment when the Commandant of AFIT, AVM Olugbeji...
Scores of Anti-corruption Organisations and constitutional lawyers in Nigeria have submitted a petition to President Muhammadu Buhari, demanding a probe of the EFCC Chairman, Mr AbdulRasheed Bawa. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the activists on Tuesday, resumed its suspended protest in Lagos, calling for removal of...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), is presently enmeshed in a ‘nauseating’ scandal involving its senior officers over age falsifications. According to a report by PRNigeria, senior staff of the Commission who falsified their age records (dates of birth) have been detected, during a promotion interview for senior...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has resolved to improve its collaboration with the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN) in areas of capacity building and advocacy to check tax fraud. EFCC Spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, in a statement quoted the Commission’s Chairman,...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has filed a motion before the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, asking for a stay of execution of the judgment of the Kogi State High Court delivered on December 12, 2022 and the consequential order made on Feb. 6th 2023,...
Justice R.O. Ayoola of the Kogi High Court on Monday committed the Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, to prison for alleged contempt. The judge, who awarded N10 million against EFCC, ordered the Inspector-General of Police (IG) to arrest Bawa forthwith wherever he is and send...
..Bawa, Suswam, Rabiu, Jime confirm participation at DAILY ASSET Awards The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa has confirmed participation at the 6th DAILY ASSET Annual Awards, which holds January 19. The anti-corruption czar was voted by the Editorial Board of the Abuja-based daily...
Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Dr Olisa Agbakoba (SAN) on Thursday, said that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) ought not to have been in existence. He said the commission currently operated outside the constitution. Agbakoba said this at a news conference in Lagos. According to...
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Usman Baba says the police has devised strategies to arrest and prosecute politicians moving on election days with tonnes of cash for vote buying. Baba stated this on Monday in Abuja at a one-day Stakeholders Summit on Addressing the Influence of Money on the...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday said it was an error to think that corruption pays. Osinbajo said this in Abuja at the unveiling of the Operation Manuals for Integrity and Zero Tolerance Clubs, organised by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). According to him, many who thinks...
The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory has set aside the contempt proceedings and all the orders of conviction for contempt against the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa. Justice Chizoba Oji set aside the proceedings on Thursday after hearing an application brought by...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said it received with shock the ruling by Justice Chizoba Oji of an FCT High Court committing its Chairman, Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, to prison for contempt. The commission, on its verified twitter handle, described its chairman as an apostle of rule of...
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa said the commission has appealed the judgement of the FCT High Court, convicting the chairman of contempt of court for failing to comply with an earlier order of the court. Justice Chizoba Oji, of the FCT...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the committal of the Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to prison over contempt. The presiding judge, Justice Chizoba Oji also directed the Inspector-General of Police to ensure the committal order is executed. Oji gave the order dated Oct. 28,...
Two lawyers have urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to stop making blanket statements against other professionals. The lawyers gave the advice on Tuesday while reacting to the allegation made by the commission’s chairman, that lawyers were involved in using their law firms to aid politicians launder...