The Seventh Prosecution Witness, PW7, Chinedu Eneanya, in the trial of the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Ifeanyi Emefiele on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, told Justice Maryanne Anineh of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Maitama, Abuja, that Emefiele violated the provisions of the...
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The Eleventh Prosecution Witness, PW11, Bashirudden Muhammed Maishanu in the trial of former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, on Thursday, January 29, 2026, told Justice Hamza Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja, that the sum of $6,230,000.00 (Six Million, Two Hundred and Thirty...
A key forensic examination in the ongoing $4.5 billion fraud trial of former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, has hit a major roadblock following disagreements between the prosecution and defence teams. The stalled analysis—focused on WhatsApp messages and data extracted from a mobile phone tendered as...
A Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos has adjourned till Wednesday, February 26 to rule on whether or not to continue to hear the case of the former Governor of the Central Bank, Godwin Emefiele. Justice Rahman Oshodi adjourned for ruling after Emefiele’s Counsel, Senior Advocate of Nigeria,...
An Ikeja Special Offences Court has fixed Jan.7 for ruling on the application filed by the embattled ex-Governor of Central Bank, Godwin Emefiele, challenging the jurisdiction of the court. Emefiele is standing trial for alleged abuse of office and $4.5 billion and N2.8 billion fraud. His co-defendant, Henry Omoile,...
An Ikeja Special Offences Court has adjourned till Dec. 12, to hear the application filed by the embattled ex-Governor of Central Bank, Godwin Emefiele, challenging the jurisdiction of the lower court. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Emefiele had approached the Court of Appeal, challenging the jurisdiction...
The seventh prosecution witness, Mr John Adetola, in the ongoing trial of ex-governor of Central Bank, Godwin Emefiele, narrated how he collected the sum of $400,000 on behalf of the ex-governor. Adetola, who was the former personal assistant to Emefiele, made the revelation on Thursday while giving evidence before...
A former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Kingsley Obiorah, on Thursday said the board of the apex bank never recommended the 2022 Naira redesign to former President Muhammadu Buhari. Obiorah said this while testifying virtually before the FCT High Court at the resumed hearing in...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday insisted that the the Federal Government did not lose $49.8 billion dollars under his watch as president. Jonathan stated this in Abuja on Thursday during his remarks at the launch of a book by the former Minister of Finance and National Planning, Dr...
A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court on Tuesday dismissed an application filed by the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele to travel to the UK medical treatment. The EFCC charged Emefiele with criminal breach of trust, forgery, conspiracy to obtain by...
An Assistant Manager with Zenith Bank Plc, Mrs Ifeoma Ogbonnaya, has revealed that the embattled Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Governor Godwin Emefiele, and his wife Margaret, were not signatories to the account alleged to have been owned by them. Emefiele is standing trial over abuse of office...
An Assistant Manager with Zenith Bank Plc, Mrs Ifeoma Ogbonnaya, has narrated how Mr Godwin Emefiele, the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), moved funds to his wife, Mrs Margaret Emefiele. Ogbonnaya told an Ikeja Special Offences Court on Tuesday how Emefiele used the bank...
A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Abuja on Tuesday adjourned until Oct. 21 for continuation of the trial of the suspended governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele over alleged procurement fraud. Emefiele is charged with alleged 20-count amended charge, preferred against him by...
Mr Michael Agboro, a prosecution seventh witness alleged that the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Godwin Emefiele awarded contracts to companies belonging to his wife and a his brother-in-law. Emefiele is standing trial on an alleged 20-count amended charge, preferred against him by the...
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has again ordered the interim forfeiture of the sum of $1.4m linked to the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele. Justice Ayokunle Faji ordered the forfeiture of the money to the Federal Government of Nigeria....
The Ikeja Special Offences Court on Friday granted the request of the defence to recall the first prosecution witness in the trial of the former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele. Emefiele is standing trial over abuse of office and alleged $4.5 billion and N2.8 billion...
The trial of the former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, continued on Thursday with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) tendering bundles of documents to nail him. Emefiele is standing trial over abuse of office and alleged $4.5 billion and N2.8 billion fraud...
A former Director of Information Technology of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr John Ayoh, has explained how he collected $600,000 allegedly for contract gratification for the embattled ex-apex bank governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele. Ayoh, while being led in evidence by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission...
The suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele on Monday challenged the jurisdiction of an Ikeja Special Offences Court to hear the alleged abuse of office and multi billion dollars fraud leveled against him. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr Olalekan Ojo, SAN,...