A Federal Capital Territory (FCT ) High Court on Monday dismissed an application by a former Minister of Power and Steel, Dr Olu Agunloye inviting some legal luminaries to hear his case on alleged infractions in the Mambilla Hydroelectric plant. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) charged...
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An Ikeja High Court has adjourned the trial of Chairman of Ibeto Energy Development Company, Chief Cletus Ibeto who was charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged N4.8 billion fraud, until May 27. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Oyindamola Ogala...
Justice Maruf Adegbola of an Oyo High Court on Friday discharged and acquitted a former Director of National Horticultural Research Institute (NIHORT), Mr Ademola Idowu, of bribe charge. Also discharged and acquitted are NIHORT Accountant, Mr Isaiah Ajisafe, David Ikyobo Consultant, and his Company, Messrs Sterling Design and...
Mr Ayoola Lawal, a former Secretary of the Diaspora Chairmen Forum Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says the planned enhancement of the National Identity Card by the Federal Government will re-write Nigeria’s history. Ayoola, a former chairman of the APC Scandinavia, said this in a statement...
Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Ikeja Special Offences Court on Monday remanded the embattled former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, for alleged abuse of office. Oshodi remanded Emefiele in the EFCC custody while his co-defendant, Henry Isioma-Omoile, was remanded in Ikoyi Custodial Centre where...
By MARY RONKE, Ilorin – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has arrested an Ilorin-based clergyman, Prophet Adeniyi James, for allegedly defrauding a member of his Church of N3.9 million. James is the General Overseer of Christ Apostolic Church(CAC), Freedom City Prophetic and Deliverance Ministry in Ilorin. The...
Justice Abubakar Kutigi of a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), on Thursday discharged former Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) , Mohammed Bello Adoke ,SAN and six others . They were charged with legations of committing infractions relating to the controversial Oil Prospecting Licence (OPL) 245,...
The Federal Government will, on April 4, arraigned Binance Holdings Limited and its two top officials; Tigran Gambaryan and fleeing Nadeem Anjarwalla, on allegations bordering on tax evasion. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reliably gathered on Thursday that Binance, Mr Gambaryan and Mr Anjarwalla, listed as 1st...
Former Minister of Power and Steel, Dr Olu Agunloye, on Thursday told a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Apo, that the Attorney-General of the Federation did not give the Econimic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) the fiat to prosecute him. The EFCC charged Agunloye, who...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) on Thursday, re-arraigned a former governor of Adamawa, Murtala Nyako, his son, Sen. Abdulaziz in the Federal High Court in Abuja over alleged N29 billion fraud. They were re-arraigned on 37- counts of money laundering allegedly perpetrated while Nyako was governor...
An officer of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Mahmoud Tukur, told the FCT High Court that the commission did not promise not to prosecute the Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Ahmed Idris. Tukur made this known on Wednesday while testifying as the second prosecution witness...
A businessman, Mr Chinedu Igbokwe, on Tuesday, told an Ikeja Special Court how a Bureau de Change operator, Abdulami Isah, allegedly defrauded him of $63,950. Igbokwe, who was led in evidence by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Counsel, Mr A. A. Usman, said he was introduced...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Supreme Court of Nigeria, Abuja has reserved judgment till June 7, 2024 the final forfeiture suit of N1,222,384,857.84 (One Billion, Two Hundred and Twenty Two Million, Three Hundred and Eighty Four Thousand, Eight Hundred and Fifty Seven Naira, Eighty Four Kobo) brought...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday dragged the former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Adoza Bello before Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja for alleged N84billion money laundering offences, alongside his nephew Ali Bello, Dauda Sulaiman and Abdulsalam Hudu. The EFCC...
There was confusion on Thursday at a Federal High Court, Abuja, following amended charges filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), against Alli Bello, Daudu Suleiman, and the immediate-past Governor of Kogi. In the amended charge filed before Justice James Omotosho, the EFCC alleged that the...
The House of Representatives has urged the Federal Government to hasten investigation on the alleged misappropriation of public funds against Dr Beta Edu, the suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation. Edu was alleged to have misappropriated funds in the National Social Investment Programme(NSIP) and was subsequently...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) has increased the alleged money laundering charge preferred against Abiodun Agbele, an ally of the former Ekiti Governor, Ayodele Fayose from 11-counts to 24-counts. The EFCC had in 2016 arraigned Agbele, and five others at the Federal High Court, Abuja on...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – A Seventh Prosecution Witness, PW7, in the trial of a former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN), Godwin Emefiele on Monday, March 11, 2024, told Justice Hamza Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court, Abuja, how Emefiele allegedly signed and approved...
An Ikeja High Court has adjourned until April 15 to hear applications of counsel involved in the case of a businessman, Chief Cletus Ibeto, accused of N4.8 billion fraud. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that when the case was called on Monday, the Director of Public...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri, on Wednesday, March 7, 2024, convicted and sentenced Alhaji Kyari Mohammed, managing director, Kyari and Sons Company Nigeria Limited, to one year imprisonment Mohammed was first arraigned on June 21, 2021 by the...