By JOY ADARA, Abuja – In response to the recent announcement by the Federal Government to provide 5 billion Naira as financial support to the 36 states, aimed at mitigating the impact of the removal of petrol subsidy, HEDA Resource Centre, a leading civil society organization, has stressed...
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) have pledged to join forces in tackling illegal mining activities in Ekiti, Oyo and Osun States. EFCC Spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, said this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. The statement said that the...
The Centre for Human Rights and Socio-Economic Justice has asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to speed up investigations of its petition, requesting probe of Mr Timipre Sylva, immediate past minister of state for petroleum. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the group...
The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) will begin the investigation of the directors and officers of the 183 banks whose licences were revoked earlier this year. The Managing Director of the NDIC, Mr Bello Hassan, said this at a one-day capacity building workshop for law enforcement agencies on...
By OLA MUDOPE, Ibadan – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), says securing administrative bail of suspects in EFCC’s custody is free. The Acting Ibadan Zonal Commander of EFCC, Halima Rufa’u stated this while receiving Executive Committee members of Ibadan Branch of Nigerian Bar...
The Commander, Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), Mr Michael Nzekwe, says the commission is working to ensure that corruption studies are embedded in education curriculum and taught as courses at primary, secondary and tertiary levels. Nzekwe stated this on Saturday while addressing...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – Foremost Anti-corrupt group, Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) has commended the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on its appeal of the recent judgment of the Court of Appeal, Abuja judicial division. The Court discharged former Governor of...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday arrested 52 suspected internet fraudsters (Yahoo boys) in Abraka, a university town in Delta State. EFCC spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, stated in Abuja that the suspects were arrested following actionable intelligence...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, (ICPC) has said that the anti-graft agency does not witch-hunt any Nigerian. This was disclosed by Bolaji Owasanoye SAN, Chairman of ICPC, during a Whistleblowing and Whistleblower Protection town-hall meeting, organised by the African Centre for Media and Information Literacy,...
National Assembly (NASS), has begun recommittal of Bills passed by the 9th Assembly which were not assented to by former President Muhammadu Buhari before the expiration of the 9th assembly. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that records from the office of the Clerk to the National...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, ordered the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) to take over the N5 billion suit the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) preferred against Sen. Stella Oduah and others after their arraignment. Justice Inyang Ekwo, who gave the order shortly...
Former Aviation Minister, Sen. Stella Oduah, and others on Friday, pleaded not guilty to a N5 billion fraud charge preferred against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Oduah and eight others were arraigned by the EFCC before Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court, Abuja....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, arraigned one Mohammad Idris before Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri on one count charge of obtaining by false pretence to the tune of N1,000,000.00...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre), in its efforts to combat corruption and highlight uninvestigated alleged high-profile corruption cases in Nigeria, has announced plans to organize a protest at the offices of the two leading anti-graft agencies in...
A Federal High Court, Abuja has upheld the objection of Mr Aliyu Abubakar, a co-defendant in the ongoing money laundering trial of Mr Mohammed Adoke, former Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling after the trial-within-trial, held that the extra-judicial statements...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Foremost Anti-corruption group, Human and Environmental Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) has demanded thorough, immediate, and urgent investigation of the term of former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN) by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, July 10, 2023 secured the conviction and sentencing of one Danladi Mohammed before Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri to one-year imprisonment. Mohammed was convicted following...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), Abdulkarim Chukkol, has described investment, Business Email Compromise, BEC, and forex scams as well as land and property fraud as some of the most prevalent financial and economic crimes in the Lagos...
By OLA MUDOPE, Ibadan – Operatives of The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibadan Zonal Command, have arrested an ex-cybercrime convict and 54 other suspects for alleged internet fraud in Oyo town. The EFCC spokesman, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, disclosed this in a statement issued on Friday...
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Friday, discharged Sen. Rochas Okorocha from corruption charges filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ((EFCC). Justice Yusuf Halilu freed the former Imo governor after dismissing the charges filed by the anti-graft agency for being...