By OLA MODUPE, Lagos – The Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, on Monday, April 14, 2025, presented its first prosecution witness, PW1, Peter Obumuneme Okoye, against Jude Chigozie Okoye, elder brother and former Manager of Paul and Peter...
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The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday, adjourned the trial of former Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman, until May 2. Justice James Omotosho adjourned the matter after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)’s video evidence to counter the allegations by Mamman that his extra-judicial statement was not...
Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday, threatened to send back the EFCC’s case file in the charge against Ali Bello, the Chief of Staff (CoS) to Kogi government to the Chief Judge, Justice John Tsoho, for reassignment. Justice Omotosho made this known following...
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday, ordered the EFCC and five other security agencies to file their defence in a suit instituted by businesswoman, Dr Aisha Achimugu, to stop her planned arrest and detention. Other security agencies listed in the fundamental rights enforcement suit are the Nigeria...
By TYAV SAM TYAV, Makurdi – The Director General, Benue State Public Procurement Commission (BSPPC), Akwonya Adadu, has denied allegation bothering on inflated contract sum for the Wurukum-Airforce base road dualization project. Addressing the legislators during plenary at the Benue State House of Assembly, Adadu said the contract was...
The Federal High Court in Abuja has cautioned Mr Gimba Ya’u, former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (MD/CEO), Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN), against frivolous adjournment in the 65 million-dollar fraud trial. Justice James Omotosho gave the warming following an oral application seeking for an adjournment by...
A Zenith Bank Plc’s staff member, Femi Remigus, on Tuesday tendered exhibits against Mr Ali Bello, the Chief of Staff (CoS) to Gov. Usman Ododo of Kogi, in the alleged money laundering trial to the tune of N3 billion. Remigus, a Compliance Officer, tendered the exhibits while being led...
An Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s (EFCC) witness told an Abuja high Court how contract for the construction of the terminal building at Katsina Airport was inflated from N800 million to N2.7 billion. The witness, Isaiah Yesufu, a Director of Certification, Compliance and Monitoring at the Bureau of Public...
A witness, Adebayo Olanrewaju on Tuesday, told the Federal High Court in Abuja that the Federal Ministry of Defence did not directly pay money into the shares account belonging to the former acting Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), Anamekwe Nwabuoku. Olanrewaju stated this while being cross examined by...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Operatives of the Benin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), have arrested one Olawole Sunday, a suspected fraudster, who specialised in buying bank accounts’ details from individuals with which he defrauds unsuspecting members of the public. The EFCC in a...
The Accountant-General of Bauchi State, Mr Sirajo Jaja, has been arraigned in the Federal High Court in Abuja over allegations bordering on money laundering. Jaja was arraigned on Monday by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) before Justice Obiora Egwuatu alongside Aliyu Abubajar, a Bureau de Change (BDC)...
A Director of Certification, Compliance and Monitoring at the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), Mr Isaiah Yesufu, on Monday testified against former Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) charged Sirika and his brother, Ahmad and two companies with abuse of office and contract fraud....
Promoters and operators of entities engaged in a prohibited scheme is liable to a penalty of not less than N20 million or imprisonment to a term of 10 years or both. Thr Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Dr Emomotimi Agama, said it is one of the...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday re-arraigned former National Security Adviser, retired Col. Sambo Dasuki and three others over alleged N33.2 billion fraud in an Abuja High Court. Dasuki was arraigned alongside Aminu Baba-Kusa, former General Manager of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), along with...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja– Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday, March 24, 2025 busted a Ponzi Scheme Academy and arrested 133 suspects in Abuja. The commission in a post via its X handle, said the suspects were arrested at the Compensation Layout in Gwagwalada...
Former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has prayed the Federal High Court in Abuja to order the EFCC to retrieve from persons, either natural or corporate, to whom it had sold off her seized assets or property. Diezani, in an amended suit filed by her lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome,...
An Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court, Ibadan, on Monday ordered a fraudster, Ezekiel Onikoyi, 39, to serve two weeks imprisonment for stealing a woman’s handbag containing a phone, power bank and N4,000 Onikoyi, whose address was not provided, was charged with stealing, obtaining money under false pretences and conduct likely to...
The absence of a former governor of Taraba, Darius Ishaku in court on Monday stalled his trial in an Abuja high Court on Monday. Ishaku is charged alongside a former Permanent Secretary, Bureau for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in the state, Bello Yero. The Economic and Financial Crimes...
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday adjourned a case against the Chairman of Honeywell Group, Oba Otudeko, and others until May 8 for a report on settlement. Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke granted the adjournment after the first defence counsel, Chief Wole Olanipekun, (SAN), informed the court that the...