By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Bello has commissioned the 5 storey office complex of the Abuja Property Development Company (APDC) located at Plot 1329, Peace Drive, Central Business District, Abuja. The Minister in his address commended the pioneer as well as the current management...
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The trial of embattled former Governor of Ekiti, Ayodele Fayose, on Wednesday resumed at a Federal High Court in Lagos with prosecution giving more evidence. Prosecution called its 11th witness, Mrs Joanne Tolulope, who narrated how one Abiodun Agbele, an associate of Fayose, allegedly bought property worth millions of...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has again interrogated a former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode. He was arrested on Tuesday after he attended a court proceeding at the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos following investigations into alleged document falsification. Sources close to him, however, stated that he...
The absence of a prosecution witness, Mr Augustine Anosike on Tuesday, stalled the ongoing trial of a popular Nigerian musician, Azeez Fashola, a.k.a Naira Marley before a Federal High Court, Lagos. Anosike, a forensic analyst, is testifying as a second prosecution witness in the case. The Economic and Financial...
The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos has upheld the final forfeiture order on the $40 million worth of jewellery seized from the premises of the former Minister for Petroleum, Diezani Allison-Madueke. Justice Festus Obande, who read the judgment on Friday, held that there was no substance in Alison-Madueke’s...
President Muhammadu Buhari has again directed security agencies to urgently address the resurgence of kidnapping and other crimes on the Abuja-Kaduna Highway and on other roads across the country. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, said the president gave the directive while presiding over the meeting of the National...
By BABARA KALU, Akwa – Anambra State Government has reacted to the placement of the state Governor Willie Obiano on the watchlist by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The EFCC had issued letter to the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) requesting the immigration to...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is currently interrogating a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode. Officials of the anti-graft agency confirmed this to Channels Television on Monday in Lagos. The former minister was invited to answer questions relating to the forgery of a medical report which he...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arraigned the Chairman of Gwagwalada Area Council, Adamu Danze, for allegedly receiving N10 million kickback from a contractor handling construction projects in the area council. Danze was arraigned by the Commission before Justice U. P. Kekemeke of the...
The arraignment of a former Minister of Aviation, Senator Stella Oduah, before Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court Abuja, has been stalled. Oduah, now a Senator representing Anambra North Senatorial district in the Senate, was to be arraigned on a 25-count charge, along with 8 other defendants,...
Some of the ships seized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have begun to sink in waters across the country, while many of those temporarily and permanently forfeited by suspected corrupt persons are being damaged due to lack of maintenance. Sources in the know of the development at...
The Kogi State Government has given a 48-hour ultimatum to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to apologise and retract a malicious statement that it kept N20 billion bailout fund meant to pay salaries in a commercial bank meant to yield interest. In a briefing on Sunday in...
Kogi State’s Commissioner for Information and Communication, Mr Kingsley Fanwo, has said that the state government has facts to disprove the allegations the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had leveled against it. The commissioner disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists, stating that the Kogi Government...
The Kogi Government says it will again, be vindicated in the EFCC alleged return of bailout fund for workers’ salaries to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday, said it returned the N19....
The absence of Justice Ahmed Mohammed of a Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, stalled the suit filed by former Imo Gov., Rochas Okorocha, against the state government and others. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Mohammed had, on Sept. 22, fixed today for hearing an...
File photo of a former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Patrick Akpobolokemi. The trial of Patrick Akpobolokemi, a former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), and three others for an alleged N8.5billion fraud continued on Tuesday, with the Economic and...
Former Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke, has sought for an order of a Federal High Court, Abuja, extending his stay in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on medical ground. Adoke, through his lawyer, Edidiong Usungurua, made the application, on Tuesday, while moving...
The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC), the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have commenced rights violation investigation into the money lending industry. A document signed by Mr Babatunde Irukera, the Chief Executive Officer of FCCPC for the Joint Regulatory and...
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday adjourned the trial of a former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, for N338.8 million money laundering. Ikuforiji was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) alongside his former Personal Assistant, Oyebode Atoyebi, on a...
Former EFCC boss, Mrs Farida Waziri, on Sunday in Paris recounted how excited she was when “Bendel Gari’’ was sent to her in Abuja from Warri in Delta by rail. Waziri, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said President Muhammadu Buhari deserved commendation for making the...