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Why Goodluck Jonathan Does Not Belong In Our Future
By Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò No, dear reader, you are not seeing double. The title is correct and it is not a…
Edo To Drag EFCC To Court For Dabbling In Politics
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Edo state governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole on Tuesday disclosed that the state government would drag the Economic…
Fraud: Government takes over female banker’s property
Eromosele Ebhomele Nigeria’s anti-graft organisation, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, says it has secured an order of the…
EFCC Arraigns Hotelier For Fraud
Henry Ojelu The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday re-arraigned a Lagos-based hotelier, Augunos Okoro, for allegedly defrauding…
EFCC releases detained Edo APC lawmakers
Jethro Ibileke/Benin The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has released the three principal officers of the Edo State…
Protest In Benin, As EFCC Detains Edo Speaker, Majority Leader, Chief Whip
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Hundreds of All Progressives Congress (APC) members and sympathisers, this morning protested round the streets of Benin to…
EFCC Detains Edo Speaker, Majority Leader
Jethro Ibileke/Benin The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has detained three APC members of Edo State House of Assembly.…
N155m theft: Court orders EFCC to arrest bureau de change operator
An Ikeja High Court on Monday issued a warrant of arrest against a Bureau de Change operator, Dipo Adedokun, over…
4 Ministers Set To Quit Jonathan’s Cabinet
Four ministers in President Goodluck Jonathan’s cabinet who have signified their interest in seeking political offices in their states and…
Court discharges fuel subsidy scam suspect
Henry Ojelu Justice Lateefat Okunnu of the Ikeja High Court, Lagos today discharged an accountant, Ezekiel Ejidele of the charges…
EFCC appeals court ruling in favour of Ikuforiji
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday appealed against the judgment of a Federal High Court in Lagos…
EFCC witness denies threat to life
Henry Ojelu A prosecution witness in a N1.1 billion fuel subsidy fraud trial, Mr Kehinde Akinmolayo today denied that his…
Fayose: The Bad News From Ekiti State
By Joe Igbokwe Before June 21 Governorship elections in Ekiti State Professor Jide Osuntokun spoke from Mount Everest, the highest mountain in…
Absurdity Of Media Clampdown In Enugu
By Nwobodo Chidiebere On May 29, 1999, Nigerians heaved a great sigh of relief when we joyously welcomed back democracy…
Oil Subsidy Trial: Court Summons EFCC Witness
By Henry Ojelu A Lagos High Court Judge, Justice Lateefat Okunnu today issued a witness summon against a witness of…
EFCC drops N6bn fraud charges against former Works minister
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Thursday dropped the 47 counts of N6bn fraud charges against a former Minister…
EFCC has no reason to scrutinize Ekiti finances – Fayemi
Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti on Tuesday said that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had no reason to…
EFCC arrests two suspects over $7.9m scam
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arrested wo suspected fraudsters who allegedly defrauded a foreign investor of $7.9…
Change Versus Status Quo: The Mistakes Of The Jonathan Presidency
By Lawrence Chinedu Nwobu No Nigerian president has enjoyed the initial support and benefit of doubt that accompanied the Jonathan…
EFCC declares banker wanted over N6.2billion fraud
By Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has declared a banker, Godswill Oyegwa Oyoyou, an Information Technology…
Adamawa Guber Race: Ribadu Withdraws From, Waits For 2015
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, former chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission early Friday morning withdrew from the primary…
Nigerian swindles 75-Year old Dutch woman of N41.8M
By Eromosele Ebhomele A 75-year old Dutch woman, Jeanet De Jonge, is currently grieving after she was scammed of 200,000…
Jonathan, A Great Achiever —Ribadu
Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Malam Nuhu Ribadu has described President Goodluck Jonathan as a…
EFCC arrests 2 bank managers, 4 others over N167.5m scam
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said on Monday that it had arrested two bank managers and four others…
EFCC Arrests Former Bank Manager for N81m Fraud
A former branch manager of a new generation bank, (Ecobank Plc), Victor Amushie has been arrested by the Economic and…
EFFC to prosecute Stock Broker over N30m Scam
By Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, said on Thursday that its has concluded arrangements to prosecute…
‘Men Commit More Crimes Than Women’
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, has revealed that women’s involvement in organised…
EFCC, NCC to sensitise public on ways to tackle corruption
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said it would sensitise Nigerians on ways of tackling corruption to assist…
N5.6bn pension scam: EFCC not ready for trial
Veral Agboje, Counsel to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), said on Friday that she was not ready to…
EFCC arraigns Taraba Accountant General for N1.6bn fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday, arraigned the Taraba State Accountant–General, Joel Joseph Lenbang, before Justice Donatus Nwabueze…