Access Bank Plc has approached the Federal High Court in Lagos to recover N1.34 billion allegedly lost through an unauthorised transfer of funds from four customers’ accounts in what the bank described as a suspected cyber fraud incident. The incident, which raises fresh concerns about the financial and cybersecurity...
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Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede has charged youths across the country to tread the path of integrity for a secure future. He gave the charge in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Tuesday, August 11, 2026, while addressing youths and teenagers in a...
Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has charged students across the country to use the internet positively and for socially desirable activities. He gave this charge on Wednesday, July 22, 2026 when the executives of the Niger Delta Students’ Union Government paid a...
Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday, July 22, 2026, handed over the sum of N108 million to a company, Greenwich Planet Sun King Nigeria Limited, in Lagos. The money, handed over in bank drafts, formed part of the funds recovered by the Commission in...
Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ola Olukoyede has disclosed that though newly-emerging crimes are evolving in the nation’s financial space, the EFCC is sufficiently equipped to confront and conquer them. He made this known at the inaugural Town Hall meeting of EFCC’s Zero Tolerance...
Nigeria Police Force, through the Police Special Fraud Unit (PSFU), has recorded a major breakthrough in the fight against financial crimes with the uncovering of a sophisticated fraud syndicate responsible for the diversion of over Seven Hundred and Thirteen Million, Nine Hundred Thousand Naira (₦713,900,000) from customers’ accounts. A...
Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court sitting in Maiduguri, on Monday, May 4, 2026 convicted and sentenced one Saleh Isa Abdullahi to six month imprisonment. The convict was arraigned by the Maiduguri Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a one count...
Former presidential candidate Peter Obi has raised alarm over what he described as a disturbing claim by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) that a significant number of Nigerian university students are involved in internet fraud. In a post shared on X (formerly Twitter), Obi said the revelation,...
Benin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday April 20, 2026 secured the conviction and sentence of Goodluck Ejimiyare before Justice (Professor) C. A. Obiozor of the Federal High Court, sitting in Benin City. The convict was arraigned on March 30, 2026 on an amended...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Thursday, April 9, 2026 arrested 31 suspected internet fraudsters in a sting operation at an internet fraud academy, situated in Becki Estate, Karu, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The suspects, comprising two kingpins and interns, were nabbed while undergoing internet fraud...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested Udoma David Ekeh, a Tiktok user, for spreading false information about the Commission and its officers. The commission disclosed this in a post via its verified X handle on Wednesday. It said: “Udeh, in December 2025, alerted the...
Nigeria Police Force, through the INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB) Abuja, has recorded a major breakthrough in the investigation of a transnational fraud, identity theft, and money laundering case involving a United States-based victim, in line with the ongoing drive of the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Olatunji Rilwan Disu,...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has dismissed claims linking its recent operation in Ilorin, Kwara State, to protests by students of Kwara State Polytechnic, describing such reports as misleading and a misrepresentation of facts. Operatives of the Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the EFCC carried out a sting operation...
Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Hassan Kukah has distanced himself from the unpatriotic efforts of some fraudsters using his name to solicit financial support from unsuspecting good hearted individuals. Kukah, who made the disclaimer in a statement signed by the Director of Communication of the Diocese, Revd. Father...
Nigerian Army has firmly dismissed a recruitment notice making the roundson social media and online platforms, describing it as false, misleading and entirely unauthorized. A disclaimer issued on Thursday in Abuja by the Army spokesperson, Colonel Anele Appolonia, said the viral advertisement claiming that the “Nigerian Army Direct Short...
Nigeria Police Force National Cybercrime Centre (NPF–NCCC) has apprehended high-profile internet fraud suspects involved in targeted cyberattacks against the email systems of major corporate organisations through the deployment of phishing links and malicious software. The Force spokesman, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed this in a statement issued on Thursday in...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has called for a stronger alliance with civil society groups and the media, insisting that the fight against corruption cannot be won by the Commission alone. Speaking during a one-day capacity-building workshop for CSOs and journalists in Maiduguri on Thursday, the Acting Zonal...
Justice Ismail Ijelu of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, on Tuesday, November 18, 2025, convicted and sentenced one Osaibovo Charles to a total of 50 years’ imprisonment for offences bordering on conspiracy, obtaining money by false pretence, stealing, possession of fraudulent documents and money laundering. Charles...
A Special Offences Court in Ikeja, Lagos, has slammed two men, Hamza Zakaria and Nurudeen Mohammed Ibrahim, with jail terms after they admitted to playing key roles in a staggering ₦8.56 billion cyber-fraud that compromised the computer systems of a new-generation bank. Justice Rahman Oshodi delivered the verdict on...
In a crackdown on online scams, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s (EFCC) Kaduna Zonal Directorate has swooped in to arrest 19 alleged internet fraudsters in Lapai Local Government Area of Niger State. The EFCC in a post via its X handle on Friday said the arrested suspects are...