Former Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, on Thursday, prayed a Federal High Court, Abuja to set aside an arrest warrant issues against him. Bello, through his lawyer, Abdulwahab Mohammed, SAN, told Justice Emeka Nwite that the court lacked jurisdction to grant the order in the first instance....
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A High Court sitting in Lokoja on Wednesday restrained the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from arresting, detaining and prosecuting former governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi. Justice I.A Jamil, gave the order in a two hour judgment delivered in suit no HCL/68/M/2020 in Lokoja on Wednesday. The...
Kogi State Governor, Usman Ododo visited his embattled predecessor Alhaji Yahaya Bello at his Abuja residence on Wednesday as operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) laid siege to the property. Ododo arrived at Bello’s residence alongside several security operatives and youthful supporters protesting against the...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has withdrawn its operatives from the home of former governor of Kogi, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, over alleged fraud. The EFCC operatives had on Wednesday mounted surveillance around the home of Bello on No 9 Benghazi Street ,Wuse Zone 4, Abuja, apparently...
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), on Wednesday, admitted three documents in evidence in the bribery trial of the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (MD/CEO) of Duport Midstream Company Limited, Mr Akintoye Akindele. Justice Modupe Osho-Adebiyi admitted the documents and marked them as exhibits...
Former Governor of Kogi, Yahaya Bello on Wednesday, called on President Bola Tinubu to call the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to order over alleged flagrant disobedience to court orders. The former governor, in a statement issued by his media officer, Mr Onogwu Muhammed in Abuja, said...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) laid siege to the residence of former Kogi governor, Alhaji Yahaya Belloaaa in Wuse, Abuja on Wednesday. The state’s sitting governor and Bello’s successor, Alhaji Ahmed Ododo and his motorcade were seen around the premises. One of the operatives...
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday, granted bail in the sum of N10 million to Nigerian businessman, Pascal Okechukwu a.k.a Cubana Chief Priest charged with alleged Naira Abuse The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arraigned the defendant on a three-count charge of allegedly spraying and...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday arraigned a businessman Pascal Okechukwu, a k a Cubana Chief Priest, before a Federal High Court in Lagos over alleged abuse of the Naira currency. He was arraigned on three counts of spraying and tampering with the Naira notes...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has filed a three-count charge against popular Instagram celebrity Pascal Okechukwu also known as Cubana Chief Priest for allegedly spraying and tampering with the naira at a social event contrary to the provisions of the Central Bank Act of 2007. ...
A prosecution witness, Mr Gafar Ademolake, on Tuesday told an Ikeja Special Offences Court how his 72-year-old father-in-law, Muritala Adebayo, (alias Oloriebi of Ajah) allegedly defrauded him of three cars and some millions of naira. Ademolake, who was led in evidence by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)...
In February 2024, the mass media was awash with reports of the arrest of Bassey Idio, for currency racketeering by operatives of the Uyo Zonal Command of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The 59-year-old ‘naira trader’ was apprehended following intelligence and surveillance revealing his illicit cash...
A Federal Capital Territory (FCT ) High Court on Monday dismissed an application by a former Minister of Power and Steel, Dr Olu Agunloye inviting some legal luminaries to hear his case on alleged infractions in the Mambilla Hydroelectric plant. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) charged...
An Ikeja High Court has adjourned the trial of Chairman of Ibeto Energy Development Company, Chief Cletus Ibeto who was charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged N4.8 billion fraud, until May 27. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Oyindamola Ogala...
What happened with Bobrisky just shows you the savviness of Nigeria compared to other nations and the intellectual response to governing on display by the current administration. The Nigerian government obviously wanted to clamp down on the trending cross-dressing culture in Nigeria. But the government was also aware...
A Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) employee, Mr Monday Osazuwa, on Friday told an Ikeja Special Offences Court how the former apex bank governor, Godwin Emefiele, on different occasions, directed him to collect three million dollars cash in tranches. Osasuwa, while being led in evidence by the Economic...
A Federal High Court in Lagos State, on Friday, sentenced convicted cross dresser, Idris Okuneye (alias Bobrisky), to six months in prison for abuse of the Naira. The court did not give the cross dresser an option of fine. Bobrisky was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial...
Justice Maruf Adegbola of an Oyo High Court on Friday discharged and acquitted a former Director of National Horticultural Research Institute (NIHORT), Mr Ademola Idowu, of bribe charge. Also discharged and acquitted are NIHORT Accountant, Mr Isaiah Ajisafe, David Ikyobo Consultant, and his Company, Messrs Sterling Design and...
The Sallah holiday on Tuesday stalled judgment by a Federal High Court Lagos against convicted cross dresser, Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, over naira abuse. Bobrisky was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for naira abuse. The court had convicted him on April 5,...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has so far recovered N30 billion in the ongoing probe of suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu. The Chairman of EFCC, Mr Ola Olukoyede, said this in the March edition of the commission’s monthly e-magazine, EFCC Alert,...