Tag: efcc
Lloyd Granted N10m Bail
Chidi Lloyd, the embattled leader of the Rivers House of Assembly, was granted bail by Justice Latan Nyordee of a…
EFCC Declares Two Suspected Oil Subsidy Thieves Wanted
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has declared two persons accused of defrauding the Federal Government in bogus oil…
Presidential Candidate Arrested For Fraud
The presidential candidate of Hope Democratic Party, HDP, in the 2011 presidential election in Nigeria, Chief Ambrose Owuru, has been…
Presidential candidate arrested over N66m scam
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The Presidential candidate of Hope Democratic Party, HDP, at the 2011 Presidential election in Nigeria, Chief…
Ahmed Sani Yerima: The Profile of Unrepentant Paedophile
By Alaba Abdulrazak Ahmed Sani Yerima, the former Governor of Zamfara State is indeed a man who derives joy in…
Kano lawyer docked for theft of N4.8m
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday arraigned a legal practitioner, Hassan Tanko Kyaure before a…
Employment Scam: SSS Impostor Arraigned
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday 24 July, 2013 arraigned Mohammed Ayuba before Justice Adebukola Banjoko of…
Insider Abuse In Nigerian Banks
The country’s banking industry is crawling with criminally-minded people who, through a variety of tricks, continue to milk depositors. Now…
EFCC Arrests Serial Fraudster over $92,000 Scam
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested Dr. Princewell Arinze Chukwueze, an alleged serial fraudster, over a $92,000(Ninety-Two…
Trial Of Ex Gov Audu’s Son, Wife Resumes
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Trial of Mr. Mustapha Audu, son of a former Kogi State Governor, Prince Abubakar Audu and…
Stockbroker jailed for defrauding clients
An Ikeja High Court on Thursday sentenced a stockbroker, Ayoola Coker, to 30 years imprisonment for stealing N17.5 million shares…
EFCC loses hold on ex-governor Sylva’s properties
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja A Federal High Court siting in the Nigerian capital of Abuja has declined an application brought…
Babalakin In Crutches, Lawyer Tells Court
Lawyer to the embattled Chairman of Bi-Courtney Ltd, Wale Babalakin, Dr Abiodun Layonu (SAN) today told a Lagos High Court…
Abuja Court Summons Borishade
An Abuja High Court on Monday ordered Babalola Borishade, a former minister of Aviation to appear before it unfailingly on…
Ajudua Seeks Reassignment Of Fraud Case
Alleged fraudster, Fred Ajudua has filed an application before an Ikeja High Court for the reassignment of his fraud charge…
Court Frees Former Works Minister
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday discharged and acquitted former Nigerian Works Minister, Hassan Lawal and a…
Ade Bendel Wanted By EFCC
Notorious advance fee fraudster, Adedeji Alumile, a.k.a. Ade Bendel, has been declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,…
We’ll Expose Those Behind Ikuforiji’s Travails
As the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, continues to slug it out with the Economic…
Reps Member Decries Persecution Of Fani-Kayode
Executive Chairman, House Committee on Human Rights, Rotimi Makinde representing Ife Central Constituency in the House of Representatives, has condemned…
Ajudua To Remain In Prison
Notorious fraudster, Fred Ajudua will have to stay longer in prison over his $1.6m fraud charge as an Ikeja High…
Lagos Speaker, Ikuforiji Re-Arraigned
Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, and his Personal Assistant, Oyebode Alade Atoyebi were Monday re-arrianged on a…
EFCC arrests alleged pension fraudsters
GBENRO ADESHINA/IBADAN Officials of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) today, Thursday June 20, 2013 arrested ten persons accused…
Guard Arraigned For Duping Blind Teacher
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned Gift Onyegam before Justice M. Shuaibu of the Federal High Court,…
Chinese Embassy Donates Motor Bikes To EFCC
Jamiu Yisa As mark of goodwill intended to further boost the war against corruption and financial crimes in Nigeria, the…
Fred Ajudua Sent To Jail
A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja Tuesday ordered that notorious fraudster Fred Ajudua be remanded in Kirikiri Prisons over…
Money Laundering: Ikuforiji, Aide Face 56 Fresh Charges
Nigeria’s anti-graft agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has filed 56-count amended charge of money laundering against the Speaker…
EFCC Seizes 44 Assets of Eight Fraud Suspects
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has received an interim order from Justice F.A Olubanjo of the Federal High…
4 chiefs charged with theft of Halliburton largese
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has charged four persons: Saro Manson, Stepbere Kristen, Hannah Baghabo and Chilsom Uwazie,…
Capital Oil Boss, Uba Sues EFCC
In a bid to forestall his arrest and detention, the chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Capital Oil and Gas…
How Fake EFCC Officials Tried To Defraud Benue Gov
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, June 3, 2013, told Justice E.N. Kpojime of the Benue State…