The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has seized the travel documents of suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation Dr. Betta Edu and her predecessor Hajiya Sadiya Umar-Farouq. The anti-graft agency also impounded the international passport of the suspended National Coordinator of the National Social Investment...
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On Monday, January 8, Nigeria’s presidential spokesperson Ajuri Ngelale announced in a statement that Nigeria’s Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu had been suspended by President Bola Tinubu, amidst N585m scandal making headlines. A few days before Betta’s suspension, Mr President had suspended Halima...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Special Adviser to the president on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga has said the embattled former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele and his cohorts would be facing a firing squad if they were in China. Mr. Onanuga...
After more than four months of investigation, the Special Investigator probing the Central Bank of Nigeria, Jim Obazee, has said the former CBN Governor Mr Godwin Emefiele and others embezzled billions of naira and committed other gross financial offences. According to a report by the online newspaper Premium Times,...
The Kano State High Court has again granted bail to the former managing director of Kano Agricultural Supply Company (KASCO), Bala Inuwa Muhammad, who is standing trial for alleged diversion of N4 billion Kano state fund. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Muhammad was granted bail...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, fixed Jan. 22 for ruling on a no-case submission filed by Rep Nicolas Mutu (Delta-PDP) and others against a money laundering charge by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Justice Folashade Ogunbanjo gave the date after counsel for the parties...
A 36-year old man, Victor Ameh, was on Thursday arraigned in a Kaduna Magistrates’ Court for allegedly stealing N4.2 million from a crypto currency firm. Ameh, a resident of Marafa in Kaduna, is charged with conspiracy and theft. The prosecution, Insp Chidi Leo, told the court that the...
A Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, on Monday, ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to immediately transfer the sums of $9.8 million and £74,000 recovered from Mr Andrew Yakubu, former Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation...
Gov. Dikko Radda of Katsina State says the government will audit all local council workers as part of measures to ensure efficiency and eliminate fraud in local government financial system. The governor announced the manpower audit during a meeting with the Chairmen, Heads of Personnel and Treasurers...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has handed over property recovered from a convicted fraudster, Aisosa Ohue, alias Frederick Leonard, to an American victim, Cheryldene Cook. Its Spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, said this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. According to him, the property include the...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday, discharged and acquitted former Head of Service (HoS) of the Federation, Mr Stephen Oronsaye of the N190 million fraud charge filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgment, held that the prosecution...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – A coalition of Civil Society Groups under the umbrella of the Network Against Corruption and Trafficking (NACAT) has asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) to investigate Senator Godswill Akpabio, over corruption allegation during his tenure...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Executive Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Abdulrasheed Bawa has urged the media to be committed in their financial crimes reporting in a bid to expose corrupt public officials in the country. Mr. Bawa, however, affirmed that the task of exposing corrupt...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a former Minister of Power, Sale Mamman over alleged N22 billion fraud. Competent sources revealed that the former minister was arrested on Wednesday and detained at the EFCC headquarters, Abuja. The sources said that the arrest was in connection with ...
Ignorance, they say, is not an excuse in law. In other words, you cannot defend you actions or inactions by claiming that you not know that it is offensive to the law. Laws are made to provide standards, regulations, our conducts and ensure a sane society. One of the...
The Federal High Court, Abuja, will on Tuesday, deliver judgment in the trial of Jide Omokore, an ally of former Petroleum Minister, Mrs Diezani Allison-Madueke. Omokere, alongside Victor Briggs, Abiye Membere, and David Mbanefo were docked on a nine-count criminal charge bordering on diverting about 1.6bn dollars alleged to...
The Criminal Investigation Department, Lagos Command, has arrested 55 year-old Oluwole Akande , for allegedly impersonating the Police Commissioner Railway Command, CP Yetunde Longe, and defrauding an 80-year old man of N250 million. The Commissioner Railway Command, CP Yetunde Longe, confirmed the arrest to the News Agency of Nigeria...
National Coordinator and Special Envoy of Ecology and Marine International Human Rights Organisation, Alhaji Musa Saidu, has cautioned against inference in the ongoing investigations of alleged fraud by the CBN Governor, Dr Godwin Emefiele. Saidu told the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja that the recent criticism...
A Federal Capital Territory High Court has ordered the interim forfeiture of $899,900 and N304, 490,160.95 recovered from a former Accountant General of the Federation (AGF) Ahmed Idris, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The court also forfeited 15 properties recovered from Idris in Kano and Abuja....
The Strategic Communication Committee (SCC) of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) on Sunday stated that external and internal auditors recently uncovered a massive payroll fraud in PAP. The SCC Chairman, an ex-agitator, Mr Nature Kieghe, said at a news conference in Yenagoa that the discovery showed an individual was...