Tag: efcc
Ex-Union Bank staff charged with N450m fraud
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission , EFCC, on Monday , arraigned one Paul Onwughalu before Justice S.S. Ogunsanya of…
Ajudua To Remain In Prison As Court Adjourns Bail Hearing
Henry Ojelu Alleged fraud kingpin, Fred Ajudua would have to remain in Kirikiri Prisons as a Lagos High Court sitting…
Nigerian police officer charged with oil theft
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Tuesday arraigned an assistant superintendent of police, Dodo Chilla Bulus, before Justice…
Contract Scam: Court Frees Bankole
Nnamdi Felix/Abuja A Federal High Court siting in Abuja on Friday discharged and acquitted former Speaker of the House of…
N5.6b Pension Scam: Stormy Court Session In Oyo
Gbenro Adesina/Ibadan It was a stormy session Friday at the Oyo State High Court when Mr. Gbolahan Latona, lead counsel…
Pension scam: EFCC seizes assets of 9 accused
GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN Justice Eni Esan of the Oyo State High Court in Ibadan, western Nigeria has ordered the forfeiture of…
Ajudua turns accuser in fraud case with Gen. Bamaiyi
Fred Ajudua, the Lagos lawyer facing several fraud charges, has turned the accuser in one of the cases he is…
Nigeria: Female Ex-banker faces N450 mn fraud charge
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission , EFCC, today charged a female banker with negligence, leading to the loss of…
Nigerian bizman charged with N135m share scam
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday arraigned a businessman identified as Dr. Chidi Barns Okpaluba and a…
Court Dismisses Fani-Kayode’s Quest To Quash Charge
Akin Kuponiyi A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, Monday dismissed an application filed before the court by…
Medical doctor charged with fraud
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday re-arraigned a 61-year-old medical doctor, Michael Adekunle, over alleged $243,500 (about…
Lawyer Arrested Over N70m Dud Cheques
Adeboye Oluwole A Lagos-based lawyer, Mrs Shade Ogundare, has been arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,…
N1.3b Fraud: Ajudua Sent To Kirikiri
Henry Ojelu Serial fraud kingpin, Fred Ajudua has been remanded in Kirikiri Prison for allegedly defrauding former Chief of Army…
The Herculean Task Before Adamu Mu’Azu
Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, new PDP National Chairman, has the enormous task of restoring solidity to a party currently held together…
Ajudua’s Trial Stalled
The trial of alleged fraud kingpin, Fred Ajudua, over allegation of duping two Dutchmen, Remy Cina and Pierre Vijgen, of…
Absence Of Prosecutor Stalls Atuche’s Re-Arraignment
The re-arraignment of the former BankPHB Managing Director, Francis Atuche, and the former managing Director of Spring Bank, Charles Ojo,…
Wole Olanipekun Leads Ikuforiji’s Defence Team
The case of transacting financial business without going through any financial institution preferred against the Speaker of Lagos State House…
Jonathan drags OBJ to rights body, ICPC, EFCC
The public spat between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and President Goodluck Jonathan is far from over. Yesterday, Jonathan asked the…
Arrest of Kano lawmakers politically motivated, says Kwankwaso
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Governor Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso of Kano, northwest Nigeria, Monday evening described the arrest and detention of the Speaker…
EFCC arrests Kano speaker, 10 others
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Authorities of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday invited 11 principal officers of Kano State…
Those fighting me will fail in 2014, says Ikuforiji
EROMOSELE EBHOMELE As the world looks towards the Christmas and New Year celebrations, Speaker Adeyemi Ikuforiji of the Lagos State…
EFCC debunks reports on its financial status
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday described as untrue recent newspaper reports that one of its officials said…
EFCC broke
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday in Abuja said it urgently needs capital injection for its continued…
EFCC to appeal court verdict on Mallam el-Rufai
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Sunday decried two recent court decisions in which Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, the former…
As Corruption Deepens, EFCC Chases Rat In Imo State
By Peter Claver Oparah Last week, Transparency International, the global anti-corruption watchdog released its ranking of world corruption index among…
Tambuwal Urges EFCC To Prosecute Oil Thieves
The Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to arrest…
Mahmud Tukur docked again for oil subsidy fraud
Henry Ojelu& Oluchi Chiowa The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission today re-arraigned Mahmud Tukur, son of the Chairman of the…
Photographer jailed for possession of fake currency
A Nigerian Federal High Court sitting in Gombe, Gombe State presided over by Justice Babatunde O. Quadri, on Friday November…
Yet Another Pension Scam
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, arraigns 12 officials of Oyo State Pension Board for alleged complicity in a…
Fani-Kayode’s trial stalled again
The absence of prosecution counsel on Thursday stalled the trial of Nigeria’s former aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, over alleged N230…