The immediate-past Governor of Kogi, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, has sought the transfer of his trial by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to the Federal High Court (FHC), Lokoja Division. Bello, who made the application in a letter to the Chief Judge (CJ) of FHC, Justice John...
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A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Gwagwalada, has sentenced a fake senator, Tom Makwe to two years imprisonment for swindling a Spanish of 47, 082 Euros. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), had arraigned the convict on two counts of intent to defraud over the...
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...
Two witnesses testified on Tuesday at a Federal High Court, Abuja as Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) opened its money laundering case against former Governor of Anambra, Willie Obiano. A commercial banker staff, Mr Tochukwu Aloysius Nnadi, and an Onitsha-based business woman, Mrs Chinwe...
The Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday struck out a charge against celebrity bartender, Pascal Okechukwu, popularly known as Cubana Chief Priest, over alleged abuse of the naira. Justice Kehinde Ogundare struck out the charge following the adoption of terms of settlement between parties to the suit....
Justice Mohammed Liman of a Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday, acquitted a former speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji and his former aide, Oyebode Atoyebi, of 54-counts of money laundering.. Delivering judgment, Justice Liman held that the prosecution failed to discharge the...
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...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested two former staff of Union Bank in Makurdi over alleged stealing of N4,199,500 belonging to a deceased customer of the bank. EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. According...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes commission (EFCC) have arrested a syndicate of fake State House Staff in Abuja for alleged criminal conspiracy, false representation and employment scam. Its Spokesperson, Dele Oyewale said this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. He said operatives of the commission...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Thursday, continued with its alleged money laundering charge preferred against Tigran Gambaryan, an executive of Binance Holdings Ltd at a Federal High Court, Abuja The criminal charge continued before Justice Emeka Nwite in spite of the withdrawal of a charge...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, dismissed a fundamental rights enforcement suit filed by fleeing Binance Holdings Ltd’s executive, Nadeem Anjarwalla, against the National Security Adviser and EFCC. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling, dismissed the suit for lack of diligent prosecution. When the case was called,...
Contrary to the narrative of John Grisham’s fictional thriller, The Racketeer, this was a real-life, long-overdue gesture of genuine friendship and partnership, a testament to the shared interest in combating trans-border crimes that pose a significant global threat. The visit of one of the longest-serving Federal Bureau of...
President Bola Tinubu has called for stronger collaboration between Nigeria’s law enforcement agencies and the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in the fight against cybercrime, terrorism, and other related crimes. The FBI is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States of America, and...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have brokered a renewed strategic alliance towards tackling the menace of internet crimes and other waves of emerging and old crimes that are of mutual interest to Nigeria and the...
A A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday, discharged the executive of Binance Holdings Limited, Tigran Gambaryan, from the alleged tax evasion charge preferred against the company by Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). Justice Emeka Nwite, in a ruling, discharged and struck out Gambaryan’s name from the four-count...
By OLA MUDOPE, Ilorin Operatives of the Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), have arrested eighteen suspects for offences bordering on illegal mining activities. The EFCC in a post on its X handle on Friday said 13 truckloads with assorted solid minerals suspected to...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, June 13, 2024, adjourned the arraignment proceedings of a former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Adoza Bello to June 27, 2024. The adjournment followed discrepancies between the EFCC and defence counsels on the actual...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – A prosecuting witness in the trial of former Minister of Power and Steel, Olu Agunloye, on Monday, June 10, 2024 narrated before Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie of the Federal Capital City High Court, sitting in Apo, Abuja, how multiple transfers were made in favour of...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday in a Federal Capital Territory (FCT), High Court , Maitama opened its case of alleged N2.6 billion fraud against former Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika and three others. The EFCC dragged Sirika alongside his daughter, Fatima; Jalal Sule Hamma and...