The All Progressives Congress(APC) Youths leaders Forum (AYLF), on Tuesday said that Nigeria’s ruling party would require former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello’s political sagacity while planning for the 2027 elections. The forum, in a statement by its President, Alhaji Abdullahi Danbaba, and Secretary, Dr Chike Ihedioha, said that...
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has urged a Federal High Court in Abuja not to grant the reliefs sought by Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State in his fundamental right enforcement suit, describing it as speculative. The EFCC, in its counter affidavit in opposition to Sanwo-Olu’s originating...
Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Olanipekum Olukayode, has underscored the need for collaboration and capacity building of security agencies to tackle corruption. Olukayode said this during the graduation of the Executive Leadership and Strategic Management Course, Batch 5/2024, of the Nigerian Army Resource Centre (NARC),...
A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Thursday, adjourned the trial of a lawyer, Chinedu Evaristus, and three others in the alleged N58M million fraud case until Jan. 15, 2025. Justice Joyce Abdulmalik adjourned the case after F.N. Umoh, a lawyer from the office of the Attorney-General of the...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on Economic and Financial Crimes commission (EFCC) to immediately release of former Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta. The party’s Deputy National Deputy Youth Leader, Timothy Osadolor, made the call at a news conference on Tuesday in Abuja. Operatives of the anti-graft agency...
An Abuja High Court on Tuesday adjourned until Nov. 11, hearing in a motion filed by a former governor of Taraba, Darius Ishaku, challenging jurisdiction to hear the alleged N27 billion fraud preferred against him. Ishaku and a former Permanent Secretary of Bureau for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs,...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested a former governor of Delta, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, over alleged N1. 3 trillion fraud. A credible sources within the anti-graft agency confirmed that the vice presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections was arrested in Port Harcourt, when...
A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, issued an arrest warrant against the Managing Director (MD) of Dana Air, Mr Hathiramani Ranesh, over alleged refusal to appear in court to stand trial. Justice Obiora Egwuatu, in a ruling, held that the arrest of Ranesh is necessary following his...
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday, ordered a final forfeiture of 2.04 million dollars, linked to the suspended Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele. Justice Isaac Dipeolu also ordered final forfeiture of landed properties as well as share certificates of Queensdorf Global Fund Ltd Trust, all linked to...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Nigerian cross dresser, Okuneye Idris, popularly known as Bobrisky has alleged that he has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). This comes after a video showed him being removed from a KLM flight bound for Amsterdam on Thursday night. Earlier,...
A Federal Capital Territory (FCT), high court Maitama on Thursday sustained Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ‘s objection to a document sought to be tendered by the former Aviation minister, Heidi Sirika. The EFCC dragged Sirika alongside his daughter, Fatima; Jalal Hamma and Al-Duraq Investment Limited, for abuse of...
A former Secretary at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr John Ogah, on Wednesday told an Ikeja Special Offences Court how the immediate past CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, allegedly directed payment of money into his niece’s bank account. Emefiele is standing trial for abuse of office and $4.5...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has four suspects for alleged conspiracy, unauthorized access to banks’ computer systems and fraudulent withdrawal of depositors’ funds. The anti-graft agency in a statement in Thursday, said those arrested include: Chima Anthony Nwigwe, suspected leader of banks’ hacking syndicate...
By MARY RONKE , Ilorin – The Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday said it has arrested 55 suspected internet fraudsters in Offa, headquaters of Offa local government area. EFCC’s Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale in a statement in Ilorin,...
A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, adjourned hearing in the money laundering case preferred against the immediate-past Governor of Kogi, Yahaya Bello, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) until Jan. 21, 2025. Justice Emeka Nwite adjourned the matter after EFCC’s counsel, Kemi Pinheiro, SAN, and...
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has sued the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged threat to arrest, detain and prosecute him after his tenure as governor. Sanwo-Olu, through his lawyer, Darlington Ozurumba, filed the fundamental right enforcement suit before Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of a Federal High Court...
A former Secretary at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr John Ogah, on Monday testified in the trial of former CBN Gov. Godwin Emefiele for fraud and abuse of office. Emefiele is charged before an Ikeja Special Offences Court. He is standing trial for abuse of office and ...
A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, granted a motion filed by the former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, seeking to amend his two separate suits filed against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and others. Justice Inyang Ekwo granted the application after it was moved by Saraki’s...
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered a final forfeiture of a multi-million naira hotel, Sunflower Hotel Ltd, in Kaduna State, linked to Prof. Vincent Tenebe, a former Vice Chancellor (VC), National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), to the Federal Government. Justice Inyang Ekwo gave the order following...
What started as a routine exercise to expand the frontiers of constitutional governance and the boundaries of Nigeria’s federal arrangement when an initial 16 states sought the intervention of the Supreme Court in interpreting the legality of the unilateral establishment in 2004 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission...