Operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), have foiled an attempt by a syndicate to push into circulation fake $4.7 million or about N2.7 billion. This is contained in a statement by the Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi on Sunday in Abuja. Babafemi said that...
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Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki says internet fraudsters popularly referred to as ‘Yahoo Boys’ must be very brilliant to dupe people and their brilliance can be redirected to a better cause. The governor said this on Friday at a town hall meeting on Edo State Education Policy. According to...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday objected to an application for examination of the iPhone SIM slot of a musician, Azeez Fashola a.k.a Naira Marley, charged with cybercrime. EFCC counsel, Mr Rotimi Oyedepo, raised the objection during cross-examination of the second prosecution witness, Mr Augustine Anosike,...
The trial of former National Publicity Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh, in the alleged N400 million fraud has been reassigned to a new judge. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Obiora Egwatu of a Federal High Court (FHC), Abuja, had fixed Oct....
By OLA MUDOPE, Ibadan – Operatives of the Ibadan Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested 25 suspected Yahoo boys in Soka area of Ibadan, the state capital. The EFCC spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, who disclosed this in a statement, said the arrests followed...
An investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ms Adewunmi Omotosho on Monday told an Ikeja Special Offences Court how alleged Access Bank hacker, Chris Ihebuzo was apprehended by the anti-graft agency. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ihebuzo in a video that went viral...
The former Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to call the EFCC to order, appealing that the president intervenes by stopping the EFCC from constantly harassing and intimidating him over allegations of a N2.9 billion fraud case. In a chat with State House correspondents...
The Executive Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) has called on youth to embrace the Whistleblowing Policy of the Federal Government in exposing economic and financial crimes. Bawa made this appeal on Wednesday when he met with a group of social media influencers under the aegis of the...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has filed a 17-count charge to the tune of N2.9 billion against a former governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha. Okorocha, in the charges filed on Monday at the Federal High Court in Abuja, was accused of conspiring with others, including...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has detained the Director-General, Voice of Nigeria (VON), Mr Osita Okechukwu. A source close to the anti-graft agency said that Okechukwu was detained over an alleged case of conspiracy, abuse of office and misappropriation of public funds to the tune of N1.3billion....
Justice Charles Agbaza of an FCT High Court on Friday rejected evidence by a witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in the trial of a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal. Lawal is charged alongside his younger brother, Hamidu, who is a director...
The €250,000,000.00 fraud trial involving a Malaysian, Tan Ah Chai Richard (now late), and his company, Coastal Asia Investments Limited, before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos has been adjourned till March 4, 2022 for continuation of trial. Richard and his company were...
Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Friday, January 28, 2022, dismissed the no-case submission filed by one Osho Aluko-Kola, who is standing trial on a nine-count charge bordering on conspiracy and stealing to the tune of N206, 502,490.02. Aluko-Kola, who was first...
The trial of Abubakar Peters and his company, Nadabo Energy Limited, for an alleged N1.4 billion fraud before Justice Christopher Balogun of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, continued on Tuesday with the cross-examination of the fifth prosecution witness, Abdulrasheed Bawa, the Chairman of the Economic and...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, fixed March 31 for judgment in the 9.8 million dollars fraud charge filed against Andrew Yakubu, former Group Managing Director (GMD), Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Justice Ahmed Mohammed fixed the date after counsel to the EFCC, Farouk Abdullah, and the defence...
Justice Bolaji Olajuwon of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has issued a warrant of arrest against the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, believed to be residing in the United Kingdom. Justice Olajuwon granted the request after counsel to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Farouk Abdullah,...
The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), on Thursday, January 20, 2022, arraigned one Wasila Musa Ibrahim and her company, Najaatu Petroleum Limited, before Justice Mohammed Nasir Yunusa at the Federal High Court, Kano. They were arraigned on a 10-count charge bordering on money...
A former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos State, Mr Olasupo Shasore, is being grilled by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). A source close to the commission disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Tuesday. The source said...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has alleged that social media celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha, alias Mompha, flouted an order of the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court where he is facing trial for N32.9 billion fraud. The EFCC prosecutor, Mr Rotimi Oyedepo, made the allegation before an...
By BASSEY EFFIONG, Calabar – The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) has Petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate the alleged fraud, mismanagement of Public funds, embezzlement, corruption and sharp practices, against EMOSTRADE ENGINEERING LIMITED for abandoning the ₦1.2 Billion Ikom Specialist Hospital Project in...