The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a suspect who claimed to be a pilot for allegedly collecting N1.02 billion in Kaduna under false pretence. EFCC’s spokesman Mr Dele Oyewale, said in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja that a petitioner claimed that the suspect was...
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The plan by Rep Nicolas Mutu (Delta-PDP) to open his defence, on Wednesday, in the alleged N320 million money laundering charge preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) suffered setback at the Federal High Court, Abuja. The matter, which was listed as number one...
In a concerted effort to safeguard Nigeria’s foreign exchange market and combat speculative activities, the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) are joining forces to address challenges impacting the nation’s economic stability. This is contained in a statement by the...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC (EFCC), Abuja Zonal Command has arrested 11 suspected internet fraudsters, popularly known as yahoo boys. EFCC spokesman, Dele Oyewale, confirmed the arrest in a statement on Monday in Abuja. Mr. Oyewale said the suspected yahoo boys were...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested 26 suspected internet fraudsters in Abuja. The EFCC spokesman,, Dele Oyewale, who confirmed this in a statement on Friday in Abuja, said they were arrested at Kurudu, Jahi, Kubwa and Gwarimpa areas of Abuja. He...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday re-arraigned Uche Chigozie, a professor, and three companies before a Federal High Court in Lagos, over alleged N1.47 billion money laundering. The companies are: Visionary Integrated Consulting Ltd., Nemad Associates Ltd., and Revamp Global Enterprises. The defendant was alleged to...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – A Second Prosecution Witness, PW2, in the trial of Nwachi Chidozie Kingsley, being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for defrauding an American, Nicole Kierulff Sayers the sum of $370,000 in a contrived marriage, Okanne Kelechi, on Tuesday, February 13, 2024,...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – Operatives of the Makurdi Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, February 14, 2024, arrested 14 (fourteen) suspected internet fraudsters in a training center of potential internet fraudsters in Makurdi, Benue State. The anti-graft agency in a tweet...
By OLA MUDOPE, Akure – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested 14 undergraduates of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Ondo State over alleged Internet fraud. The EFCC Spokesman, Dele Oyewale, confirmed the arrest in a statement on Wednesday. According to him, they were arrested...
An officer of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abubakar Madaki told an FCT high court on Wednesday that Sagir, a son of former governor of Sokoto State, Attahiru Bafarawa wrote his statements voluntarily. Madaki said this while testifying as the 1st prosecution witness (PW2) in the...
A Federal High Court, Abuja has restrained the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from inviting or investigating Brig.-Gen. Charles Nengite over alleged money laundering offence during his secondment to Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Justice Obiora Egwuatu, who made an order of perpetual injunction, held that the...
The Presidency has requested the Interpol National Central Bureau to place a Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) staff and two others on its Red Notice. The request was in connection with their alleged conspiracy and forging of documents in the name of ex-president Muhammadu Buhari to steal the...
The former Secretary to government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha on Tuesday told an FCT High Court the document okaying the payment of 6.2 million dollars did not come from his office. Mustapha said this as a witness in the ongoing trial of suspended governor of the...
Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court, sitting in Maiduguri, on Monday, convicted and sentenced the trio of Aisha Alkali Wakil ( a.k.a Mama Boko Haram) Tahiru Saidu Daura and Prince Lawal Soyade to ten years imprisonment. The defendants were jailed upon being arraigned by the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested four brothers and 30 others, for alleged internet fraud in Enugu State. EFCC spokesman, Mr Dele Oyewale, said this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. He gave the names of the siblings as Chukwuebuka...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested one Simon Bassey Idio over alleged currency racketeering in Uyo. The EFCC Spokesman, Dele Oyewale, said this in a statement made available to newsmen on Monday in Abuja. According to him, the 59-year old ‘Naira...
An FCT High Court on Monday declined to hear the preliminary objection raised by Olu Agunloye, former Minister of Power and Steel, challenging the powers of the Economic Financial Crimes Commission to prosecute him on the alleged 6billion dollars Mambilla Hydroelectric Power Station fraud. The court said...
he Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday opened its case in the trial of the suspended Central Bank Governor (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, on procurement fraud charge in an FCT High Court in Abuja. The anti-graft agency had charged Emefiele with amended 20 counts of criminal conspiracy, conferring...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested five suspected internet fraudsters. The EFCC spokesman, Dele Oyewale, who disclosed this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja, said the suspects were arrested on Friday at kansho village in the Makurdi Local Government Area...