Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has uncovered two additional fake government agencies linked to Adeniyi Matthew Adeyemi, the self-proclaimed Director-General of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, as investigations into the alleged fraud deepen. ICPC Chairman, Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu, disclosed this on Thursday, while...
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Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Lagos Zonal Directorate 2, Ikoyi, on Wednesday March 4, 2026, arraigned an alleged serial fraudster, Titilayo Eboh , before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court, sitting in Ikeja, over an alleged N1, 871, 220, 000.00 (One Billion, Eight Hundred and Seventy-one Million,...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday, February 16, 2026, arraigned the Chief Executive Officer of Onome Global Market Resources Limited and Lexicon Multi-concept Media Limited, Osabohein Alex Ologbose, alongside his wife Hope Onome Oghelemu before Justice Ekerete Akpan of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. Other defendants...
Senate has praised the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for what it described as a landmark performance in tackling corruption and financial crimes across the country, particularly in 2024. During Tuesday’s plenary, lawmakers adopted a motion tabled by Senator Emmanuel Udende (APC–Benue), who highlighted the Commission’s achievements, including...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday, February 24, 2025, presented its first round of witnesses in the trial of former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Abuja. Also presented was the statement...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday re-arraigned former Minister of Power and Steel, Dr Olu Agunloye before a Federal Capital Territory(FCT) , high court Apo. He was re-arriagned on allegations bordering on award of contract for construction of 3,960MW Mambilla Hydroelectric Power Station in Taraba. The...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja- The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has warned the public about fraudsters claiming to have received award letters for contracts related to construction works and special financial interventions on its behalf . The CBN’s Acting Director, Corporate Communications, Mrs. Hakama Sidi Ali, stated that these...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested a former governor of Delta, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, over alleged N1. 3 trillion fraud. A credible sources within the anti-graft agency confirmed that the vice presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections was arrested in Port Harcourt, when...
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday, ordered a final forfeiture of 2.04 million dollars, linked to the suspended Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele. Justice Isaac Dipeolu also ordered final forfeiture of landed properties as well as share certificates of Queensdorf Global Fund Ltd Trust, all linked to...
By IBRAHIM OBANSA, Lokoja- Kogi State House of Assembly has called for the immediate removal of the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ola Olukoyede, over his unprofessional handling of the case against the immediate past Governor of the state, Alhaji Yahaya Bello. The legislators, during plenary...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday, handed over 53 recovered vehicles and 180, 300 dollars to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) on behalf of the victims of financial crimes in Canada. The Chairman of the anti-graft agency, Ola Olukoyede handed over the recovered assets to...
The Police Command in Kaduna State, has said that its operatives have detained three suspects involved in Automated Teller Machine (ATM) swap in Kaduna. The police also recovered 54 ATM cards with a Point of Sale machine (POS). The Command’s Spokesperson, ASP Mansir Hassan, confirmed the development in a...
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, ordered the release of the international passport of Ali Bello to enable him travel to the UK for medical examination and consultation. Justice Obiora Egwuatu, in a ruling on Bello’s motion on notice moved by his lawyer, Abubakar Aliyu, SAN, ordered...
The former acting Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Anamekwe Nwabuoku, on Wednesday, begged a Federal High Court, Abuja, to give him more time to conclude the refund of the public funds allegedly siphoned. Nwabuoku and his co-defendant, Felix Nweke, in the 11-count money laundering charge preferred against them...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has so far recovered N30 billion in the ongoing probe of suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu. The Chairman of EFCC, Mr Ola Olukoyede, said this in the March edition of the commission’s monthly e-magazine, EFCC Alert,...
By MBAFAN ADE, Abuja – The Senate has dismissed media reports claiming that it will expose all “frauds associated with the contracts and management of the Turn Around Maintenance of the nation’s refineries”. A news report last week claimed that the Senate through its Ad-hoc Committee on Investigation of...
Justice Peter Kekemeke of an FCT High Court on Tuesday convicted a false investigator, Mohammed Momoh for defrauding Mrs Mario Al -Makura, wife of former governor of Nasarawa state. Kekemeke convicted Momoh based on the charge preferred against him by the Economic and financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) bordering...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday re-arraigned Uche Chigozie, a professor, and three companies before a Federal High Court in Lagos, over alleged N1.47 billion money laundering. The companies are: Visionary Integrated Consulting Ltd., Nemad Associates Ltd., and Revamp Global Enterprises. The defendant was alleged to...
Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court, sitting in Maiduguri, on Monday, convicted and sentenced the trio of Aisha Alkali Wakil ( a.k.a Mama Boko Haram) Tahiru Saidu Daura and Prince Lawal Soyade to ten years imprisonment. The defendants were jailed upon being arraigned by the...