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...
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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...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Tinubu has suspended the Managing Director/CEO of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Ahmad Salihijo Ahmad. The president also suspended 3 others namely – Olaniyi Alaba Netufo — Executive Director, Corporate Services; Barka Sajou — Executive Director, Technical Services; Sa’adatu Balgore —...
An EFCC witness, Bamaiyi Mairiga on Thursday told an FCT high court, Maitama that the signatures of former President Muhammadu Buhari and the immediate past Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, were forged. Mairiga, a forensic document examiner with the EFCC, said this while...
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has struck out the bid by the Federal Government to begin fresh prosecution of former Abia Governor, Orji Uzor Kalu, in the N7.6 billion fraud and money laundering case brought against him. The appellate court threw away the government’s move in a...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has asserted that it has powers based on judicial precedents to prosecute ex Minister of Power and Steel, Olu Agunloye over alleged $6 billion Mambilla hydroelectric power plant. EFCC is prosecuting Agunloye, who served as a minister in the administration of...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have arrested a middle aged deportee in Ondo State over alleged visa scam. NSCDC Commandant in Ondo State, Mr Oluyemi Ibiloye, paraded the suspect before newsmen on Tuesday in Akure. Ibiloye said the suspect was arrested in Akure after he...
The Federal High Court, Abuja has fixed March 7 to hear a motion filed by former Anambra Governor, Willie Obiano. Obiano is challenging the jurisdiction of the court to hear the alleged N4 billion fraud charge filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC). The...
An Ikeja High Court on Friday has ordered that hearing notice be served on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the case of a businessman, Chief Cletus Ibeto, charged with N4.8 billion fraud. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Oyindamola Ogala ordered that...
Dr Olu Agunloye, former Minister of Power and Steel under ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, has filed a N1 billion suit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over allegations that it published his name on its website’s wanted list. Agunloye, in the suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/167/2024 and filed by...