Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday, arraigned Yakubu Adamu, Commissioner of Finance, Bauchi State, and his co-defendants on alleged $9.7 million terrorism financing. They were arraigned on a 10-count charge before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Abuja. Adamu, the 1st defendant, was arraigned...
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Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the remand of former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), alongside his son, Abubakar Abdulaziz Malami, at the Kuje Correctional Centre over alleged money laundering offences. The defendants were arraigned on Tuesday before Justice Emeka Nwite...
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has faulted the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over the exclusion of its governorship candidate from the list of contestants for the 2026 Ekiti State governorship election, describing the action as further proof of what it called the Commission’s bias against the party. The PDP...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, December 30, 2025 arraigned the immediate past Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, alongside his wife, Hajia Bashir Asabe, and son, Abubakar Abdulaziz Malami, before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja,...
Federal High Court in Abuja has cleared the way for the Federal Government to resume prosecution of a high-profile terrorism case involving suspects linked to notorious bandit kingpin, Bello Turji, in a move widely seen as a boost to the country’s anti-terrorism efforts. Justice Emeka Nwite, on Monday, granted...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC,) on Monday, December 15, 2025, opposed moves by a former Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige to secure bail after being arraigned before Justice M.A. Hassan of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court, Gwarimpa Abuja. Prosecution counsel, Sylvanus Tahir, SAN, told...
Former Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has been remanded in the Kuje Correctional Centre following his arraignment on corruption allegations. The order was handed down by Justice Mariam Hassan of the Federal Capital Territory High Court. Ngige will remain in custody until Monday, December 15, when the...
Justice R. N. Ofili-Ajumogobia of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, December 9, 2025, convicted and sentenced one Faisal Muhammad to six months imprisonment for hawking and selling of Naira notes in Abuja. The Abuja Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), arraigned the defendant...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday arraigned former Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chris Ngige, on an eight-count charge bordering on alleged corruption involving more than ₦2.2 billion during his tenure in office. Ngige, also a former governor of Anambra State, arrived at the Federal Capital Territory...
A prosecution witness on Monday, December 8, 2025, told Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, how former Managing Director of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), Ahmed Kuru, and others allegedly diverted N4.9 billion belonging to the now-defunct Arik Air Limited to...
The bid by Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), to secure an urgent transfer from the Sokoto Correctional Centre suffered a major setback on Monday as the Federal High Court in Abuja refused to grant his request. Kanu, who was convicted of terrorism-related offences,...
Crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) took a fresh turn on Friday as the Kabiru Turaki-led leadership formally asked Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court to step aside from a suit filed against the party’s national leadership. In a motion on notice, filed by a legal...
The trial of former Acting Accountant General of the Federation, AGF, Chukwunyere Anamekwe Nwabuoku before Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday, December 4, 2025 could not continue due to the absence of lead defence counsel, Norrison I. Quakers, SAN. Nwabuoku is being prosecuted...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has filed a Notice of Appeal against a judgment of Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court, Abuja ordering the release of 27 houses to James Ikechukwu Okwete, his company Jamec West Africa Limited In a NOTICE OF APPEAL filed at the...
In a decisive move over an unpaid $1.4 million debt, the Federal High Court in Abuja has appointed a liquidator to oversee the winding up of Dantata & Sawoe Construction Company Limited. The court’s action stems from the company’s failure to settle a debt owed to Zutari Consulting Nigeria...
The trial of Akindele Akintoye, Platforms Capital Investment Partners Limited and Duport Midstream Company Limited continued on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, before Justice Ekerete Akpan of the Federal High Court Abuja, with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, presenting its fourth witness. Akintoye and the two companies are...
Department of State Services (DSS) on Tuesday arraigned activist and Sahara Reporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore, before the Federal High Court in Abuja on allegations of cyberbullying President Bola Tinubu. Sowore appeared before Justice Mohammed Umar, where he firmly entered a plea of not guilty. Drama unfolded early in the...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), on Monday, 1 December 2025, re-arraigned Akindele Akintoye before Justice Ekerete Akpan of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on an amended six count-charge bordering on dishonesty and conversion of $35m Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Project, NCDMB Project. The two other...
The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to hand back 27 houses it seized earlier this year, ruling that the properties were wrongly taken from their owners. Justice Joyce Abdulmalik delivered the verdict in the EFCC-initiated suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/348/2025, setting aside...
Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday, November 27, 2025 dismissed a suit filed by former Binance Head of Financial Crime Compliance, Tigran Gambaryan, against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), claiming unlawful and prolonged detention. Justice Umar Mohammed dismissed the case, ruling that the court would...