The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, has publicly called on the immediate-past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, to cooperate with ongoing investigations and submit himself to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for a probe into alleged corrupt practices during his tenure. This appeal comes amidst heightened drama…
EFCC has threatened to probe Bank Managing Directors over COVID Funds and World Bank loan fraud. Truetells Nigeria reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFFC) said it has redoubled its investigation into the culpability of bank Chief Executive Officers, CEOs, in the mismanagement of COVID-19 funds and World Bank loans. …
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has slammed the immediate former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, with a fresh 26-count charge. Emefiele is standing trial for an alleged 20-count amended charge preferred against him by the anti-graft body. He was alleged to have engaged in criminal breach of trust, forgery, conspiracy to…
Operatives of the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have confirmed the arrest of Idris Okuneye, aka Bobrisky, for allegedly spraying Naira notes. The Commission, in a statement via X on Thursday, said it invited the 31-year-old following a video report of spraying and flaunting wads of new Naira notes…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has reportedly sacked its top prosecutors for allegedly receiving bribes to sabotage the Malibu OPL 245 fraud case. The Gazette reported the Mr. Offem Uket who earlier handled cases involving former federal lawmaker, Senator Stella Oduah, Peter Nwaoboshi and Sambo Dasuki, was one of the sacked prosecutors. Officials…
. Describe Achuba, hired crowd as tools in the hands of defeated, failed politicians . Say Kogites have gone beyond ‘senseless propaganda’ . Yahaya Bello will forever be celebrated by true Kogites IT has come to the attention of the Kogi Collective Interest Group, KOCIG, the renewed onslaughts of some disgruntled political elements…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has indicted banks in the country as being linked to about 70 per cent of the financial crimes in Nigeria. EFCC’s Chairman, Ola Olukayode, disclosed this while speaking in Abuja at the 2023 Annual Retreat and General Meeting of the Association of Chief Audit Executives of Banks in…
Some operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have been captured on video allegedly shooting sporadically at the Dollar market in Abuja. While it is unclear what their mission was at the market, this is however coming at a time when Naira is exchanging for over N1700 to a dollar in parallel market….
Abubakar Ahmad Sirika, brother to the immediate past Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, has been quizzed by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over an alleged N8.06 billion contract fraud in the Federal Ministry of Aviation. Abubakar who is believed to have been awarded a contract by his brother, the former Minister,…
ASecond Prosecution Witness, in the trial of a former Governor of Sokoto State, Attahiru Bafarawa, Kassim Yusuf, on Tuesday, recounted before Justice Yusuf Halilu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja, that the former governor diverted a staggering N4.6billion he received as security fund from the office of the former National Security Adviser (NSA),…
