By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – No fewer than 65 persons in 28 states have been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) over alleged voter inducement at the governorship and Houses of Assembly elections. The Commision’s spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujiaren, confirmed the arrest in the statement issued...
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Saturday in Ilorin paraded 19 suspected vote buyers arrested during the Governorship and House of Assembly elections in the state. The Acting Zonal Head of EFCC, Ilorin Zonal Office, Michael Nzekwe, said that the suspects were paraded at the commission’s Head...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on Saturday said it deployed 400 officers and operatives to prevent vote buying in governorship and Houses of Assembly elections. The ICPC Spokesperson, Mrs Azuka Ogugua, who disclosed this in a statement in Abuja,...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has deployed its personnel across the states where Governorship and State Assembly elections will take place on Saturday. The EFCC Spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, said this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. He said the move was...
The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) says it has deployed 200 armed operatives to combat vote buying in Kano, Katsina and Jigawa states during Saturday’s Governorship and House of Assembly elections. The Kano Zonal Commander of EFCC, Mr Farouk Dogondaji, disclosed this while speaking with the News Agency...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), is presently enmeshed in a ‘nauseating’ scandal involving its senior officers over age falsifications. According to a report by PRNigeria, senior staff of the Commission who falsified their age records (dates of birth) have been detected, during a promotion interview for senior...
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Tuesday sentenced a businessman, Ernest Uduebor, for possession of forged Fidelity bank draft of N100 million. Justice Ramon Oshodi sentenced Uduebor to one year imprisonment following his guilty plea to the amended one-count charge of possession of forged document. “I have listened to...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – Following the invalidation of the restrictions on the old Naira notes under the Naira redesign policy by the Supreme Court on Friday, The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) has charged the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Economic Financial Crime Commission...
A Federal High Court on Friday sentenced Garba Tahir, former Chief Accountant, Pension Office of the Office of the Head of Service (HoS) of the Federation to three years imprisonment. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgment on Friday, held that the prosecution had proved the seven-count charge preferred against...
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Friday revoked bail granted a suspected internet fraudster, Kolawole Erinle. The court consequently remanded Erinle at the Kirikiri Maximum custodial facility. Erinle is standing trial for $1.4 million fraud. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Ramon Oshodi revoked the defendant’s...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has resolved to improve its collaboration with the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN) in areas of capacity building and advocacy to check tax fraud. EFCC Spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, in a statement quoted the Commission’s Chairman,...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has filed a motion before the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, asking for a stay of execution of the judgment of the Kogi State High Court delivered on December 12, 2022 and the consequential order made on Feb. 6th 2023,...
The Federal High Court Abuja, on Tuesday discharged and acquitted Shamsudeen Bala, son of Bauchi Governor, Bala Mohammed, of the N1.1 billion fraud charge against him. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), had filed a 20-count charge bordering on money laundering against Bala. However, in a ruling earlier...
The Federal High Court, Abuja has discharged and acquitted Jide Omokore, Chairman of Atlantic Energy Drilling Concepts Nigeria Limited and an ally of former Petroleum Minister, Mrs Diezani Allison-Madueke of fraud. The court, however, convicted Omokore’s co-accused, Victor Briggs and Abiye Membere for receiving car gifts, an offence contrary...
A defendant, Onyekachi Agbo, on Tuesday told Federal High Court sitting in Enugu that he wrote his confessional statement at the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) office involuntarily. The defendant, who stated this during defence alleged that seeing EFCC torturing another suspect while in commission’s cell made him...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested an Operations Manager of a leading Commercial bank in Abuja Central Area for refusing to load the Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) of the bank despite having N29 million of the new naira notes in the...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, discharged former Governor of Imo, Sen. Rochas Okorocha, of N2.9 billion fraud charge preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling, struck out the EFCC’s suit for being in contravention with Section 105...
Many FCT residents have continued to face difficulty in accessing the newly redesigned Naira notes, attributing the challenge to bank officials, who they say allegedly hoard and selling the legal tender. The stakeholders urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to impose heavy sections on Deposit Money Banks (DMBs)...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), in collaboration with the Economic Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), has met with officials of commercial banks in Gombe as a measure against violation of its guidelines. Speaking to newsmen shortly after the meeting in Gombe on Saturday, Aliyu Ashiru, Deputy Director, Financial Markets...
