By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Third Prosecution Witness, PW3, Umar Babangida in the trial of the former Minister of Power and Steel Development, Olu Agunloye, on Monday, June 16, 2025, told Justice J.O. Onwuegbuzie of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Apo, that former President Olusegun Obasanjo and...
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By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – The Port Harcourt Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned the director of Glossalalia Nigeria Ltd and Pelenged Nigeria Ltd, Precious Williams before Justice S. I . Mark of the Federal High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt, the Rivers...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja- The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has tendered a statement made by former President Olusegun Obasanjo in the trial of Dr. Olu Agunloye, a former Minister of Power and Steel. Agunloye is facing a seven-count charge bordering on forgery, disobeying presidential directive, and gratification....
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja- The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has filed a three-count charge against Avwerosuo Otorudo and Chukwuebuka Ehirim, promoters of Crypto Bridge Exchange (CBEX), over alleged investment fraud totaling over $1 billion. The EFCC accuses the duo of: Operating an unregistered company and administering a...
A Federal Capital Territory High Court in Maitama has overruled former Taraba Governor Darius Ishaku’s objection to the admissibility of key documents in his alleged N27 billion fraud trial. Justice Slyvanus Oriji held that the statement of the prosecution’s witness, Ismail Lawal, made at the EFCC office, was admissible...
Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the remand of Mr. Jesam Michael, CEO of Afriq Arbitrage System (AAS) Limited, in Kuje Correctional Centre over alleged investment fraud. Justice Obiora Egwuatu refused Michael’s bail plea, citing the gravity of the offence and weight of evidence against him. The Economic...
By Al – Nezer Media In a strategic effort to safeguard the health and future of young Nigerians, the Federal Government, through the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), has deepened its collaboration with civil society organisations (CSOs) to confront the growing challenge of drug abuse and vaping, particularly among...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has sued a former Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele, for allegedly stealing and unlawfully acquiring 753 housing units located at Plot 109, Cadastral Zone C09, Lokongoma District, Abuja. In the eight new counts filed at the High Court of the Federal Capital...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos- The Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has secured the conviction and sentence of 11 Filipinos, two Chinese, one Malaysian and one Indonesian to one year imprisonment each for cyber-terrorism and internet fraud before Justices Yellim Bogoro and A....
The Federal High Court, Abuja has fixed June 30 to hear the suit filed by former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke challenging the forfeiture of her assets by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC). At the resumed hearing of the matter on Friday, Alison-Madueke was represented by Mr Godwin...
Some retired cooperative members of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd.), Lagos State Branch, have decried alleged misappropriation of their funds by the management committee of the multipurpose society. Speaking at a media briefing in Abuja on Friday, the members said that they were yet to access...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja- The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested 78 suspected Internet fraudsters in Nasarawa , Abia and Kano States Its spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, said this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. He said that the EFCC operatives on Friday, arrested 43 suspected Internet...
A former Central Bank of Nigeria governor, Godwin Emefiele, has approached the Court of Appeal in abuja, praying it to set aside a judgment granting the government full control of a substantial estate in abuja comprising 753 housing units. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had earlier obtained...
Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed June 4 for the arraignment of Halima Buba, Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of SunTrust Bank Ltd, over alleged money laundering to the tune of 12 million U.S dollars. Buba will be arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), alongside...
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Tuesday sentenced Mamman Ali and Christian Taylor to 14 years’ imprisonment each over a N2.2 billion oil subsidy fraud. Ali, son of a former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ahmadu Ali, and Taylor were charged by the Economic and Financial...
An Ikeja Special Offences Court has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to provide an investigative report and e-statement of Keystone Bank with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Justice Rahman Oshodi made the order on Tuesday in the ongoing N20 billion fraud trial involving the former...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja- The Benin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned Kelly Okungbowa a.k.a Ebo Stone, a Benin City-based socialite before Justice C. A. Obiozor of the Federal High Court, sitting in Benin City on a two-count charge of Naira abuse and...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja- Officers of the Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested 49 suspected internet fraudsters in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital. The commission in a post via its X handle on Monday, said the suspects were arrested between Saturday, May 24, 2025 and...