The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) on Friday received a suspected operator of a fake crypto-currency investment platform, Polyfarm. The suspect, Bamu Gift Wandji was arrested by the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in Gwagwalada on January 12, 2026, for running a fraudulent investment scheme and was...
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The Eleventh Prosecution Witness, PW11, Bashirudden Muhammed Maishanu in the trial of former Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, on Thursday, January 29, 2026, told Justice Hamza Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja, that the sum of $6,230,000.00 (Six Million, Two Hundred and Thirty...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Thursday, January 29, 2026 arraigned BFI Group Corporation, Reuben M. Jaja, Uzor Chidi Jerry, David Femi James, Imeobong Jumbo Udom, Adeola Edward and Emeka Emmanuel Okorie before Justice M.S Idris of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court, Jabi, Abuja for...
Nigeria Police Force – National Cybercrime Centre (NPF–NCCC) has uncovered and dismantled a sophisticated cyber-enabled fraud syndicate. Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja. CSP Hundeyin said the syndicate was responsible for the illegal diversion of a telecommunications company’s...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday, January 28, 2026, arraigned the former Chairman, Benue State Independent Electoral Commission, (BSEIC), Dr. Tersoo Joseph Loko. He was arraigned alongside ten others before Justice M. S Abubakar of the Federal High Court, Makurdi, for an alleged N1,100,000,000 (One Billion, One...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Tuesday, January 27, 2026 arraigned the former National Coordinator of Multi-Sectoral Crisis Recovery Project, MCRP, North East Development Commission (NEDC), Alhaji Danjuma Mohammed and two others; Prince Achem and Aminu Alhaji (at large) before Justice K. N Ogbonnaya of the Federal Capital...
FirstBank customer, Ojo Eghosa Kingsley, has been convicted by an Edo State High Court after unlawfully spending ₦1.5 billion mistakenly credited to his account by the bank. The incident, which unfolded between June and November 2025, began when First Bank erroneously credited Kingsley’s account with the huge sum. Rather...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has reportedly quizzed the Taraba State Commissioner for Energy and Economy, Hon. Naomi Tanko, alongside the Director of Finance in the ministry, over allegations surrounding the alleged mismanagement of ₦2 billion approved for the procurement of electricity transformers in the state. Findings by...
Trial of former Head of Service of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita, before Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja, continued on Tuesday, January 20, 2026, with the First Prosecution Witness, Hamma Adama Bello testifying with video evidence in a trial-within-trial that the defendant wrote her statements...
Justice Maryann Anenih of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT High Court, Maitama, Abuja on Tuesday, January 20, 2026 frowned at the antics of the defence counsel to waste time in the trial of former Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman. Mamman and seven others, namely, Mustapha Abubakar Bida, Joseph Omotayo Adewunmi,...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Lagos Zonal Directorate 1, on Tuesday, January 20, 2026, arraigned one Sarumi Samusudeen Babafemi for an alleged N206,000,000 (Two Hundred and Six Million Naira) fraud before Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos. Babafemi alongside his companies, 606 Autos...
First Prosecution Witness, PW1, Mustapha Usman in the trial of a former member, House of Representatives, Aliyu Ibrahim Gebi on Monday, January 19, 2026 narrated before a Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja and presided over by Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie how the defendant gave him 14 dud cheques worth N125, 000.000 (One...
Benin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday January 19, 2026 secured the conviction and sentence of Ojo Eghosa Kingsley before Justice W. I. Aziegbemhin of Edo State High Court, sitting in Benin City. Kingsley was prosecuted by the Benin Zonal Directorate of the EFCc, on...
Supreme Court of Nigeria on Friday, January 16, 2026, ordered a former Jigawa State Governor, Sule Lamido, his two sons, Mustapha and Aminu and others, to enter their defences at the Federal High Court, Abuja over alleged N1.35billion fraud. A five-member panel of the apex court issued the directive...
The counsel to Henry Omoile, E.N Offial, who is standing trial with a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele,over an alleged $4.5bn fraud, , on Thursday, January 15, 2026, told Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, that his...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal Directorate 1,, on Wednesday, January 14, 2026, presented the seventh prosecution witness, PW7, Rasheedah Chindaya, an operative of the EFCC, in the ongoing trial of Friday Audu, the alleged ringleader of 792-member cryptocurrency investment and romance scam syndicate before Justice Rahman...
The Ag. Zonal Director, Benin Zonal Directorate, Deputy Commander of the EFCC, DCE Sa’ad Hanafi Sa’ad on Tuesday January 13, 2026 handed over a draft of N64,800,000 to Uzoechina Vincent Anene, being funds recovered by operatives of the Commission for him. Anene, 59, a dealer in petroleum products had petitioned...
The trial of a former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (retd) continued on January 13, 2026 before Justice C.O. Agbaza of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT High Court Maitama with the First Prosecution Witness PW1, Dr. Michael Adariku giving a breakdown of the movement of funds from the Office of...
Nigeria Police Force, Airport Police Command, in its sustained efforts to combat transnational crimes and prevent the use of Nigerian airports as escape routes for criminal elements, has arrested a notorious celebrity scam and romance fraud suspect responsible for defrauding multiple victims in the United States of America of...
Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, has distanced himself from allegations surrounding an alleged missing ₦128 billion, insisting that the issues raised occurred before his appointment into office. Adelabu’s response followed a call by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), through its Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, urging President Bola...