Tag: efcc
Docked Babalakin denied comfort chair as trial stalled
Henry Ojelu/Judiciary Correspondent A Nigerian High Court sitting in Ikeja, has adjourned proceedings till 27 March in the ongoing trial…
Judge Advises EFCC On Prosecution Of Cases
Justice Lateefat Okunnu of the Lagos High Court on Wednesday advised the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to do…
Female banker jailed 9 years for fraud
Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo of the Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced a former banker, Vera Ogbonna Akanni to…
EFCC Loses Bid To Halt Speaker Ikuforiji’s Trial
Henry Ojelu Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC today lost the bid to temporarily halt the trial of the…
Ikuforiji’s aide gets bail
A Nigerian High Court sitting at Igbosere, Lagos on Friday granted bail to an aide to Speaker Adeyemi Ikuforiji of…
Oil Subsidy Fraud: Court Freezes Suspect’s Assets
Justice Adeniji Onigbanjo of Nigeria’s Lagos High Court, Ikeja today granted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, an order…
Land Scam: EFCC to Arraign Kano Commissioner
A Kano State Civil Service Commissioner, Alhaji Aminu Ibrahim Gaya, is to be arraigned by Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes…
Ex-Kogi Senatorial Candidate To Be Arraigned For Impersonation
A former Kogi Central Senatorial candidate, Alhaji Abdulazeez Bello will soon be arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,…
JTF Hands over 18 Oil Thieves to EFCC
The Joint Task Force, JTF of 4 Brigade Nigerian Army, Benin has handed over 18 suspected oil thieves to the…
A Failed Plea Deal
The plea agreement between Mr. John Yahaya Yusufu, the convicted pension fund thief, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission…
Nigeria’s ‘yahoo yahoo’ boys arrested
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested twenty suspected internet fraudsters, otherwise called yahoo-yahoo boys. The arrest which…
EFCC confirms witness got N3m from ‘hoax’ loan
By Henry Ojelu/ Judiciary Correspondent The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) today confirmed that a prosecution witness and a…
Pension Thief remanded in Prison
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Former deputy director at Nigerian Police Pension Office, Mr. John Yakubu Yusuf, who was recently convicted…
Rep member charged with issuing dud cheques
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday arraigned Aliyu Gebi, a member of the…
EFCC slams new charge on convicted pension thief
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has filed a new charge against a former director of…
Nigeria: Pension thief re-arrested amidst outrage
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has re-arrested John Yakubu Yusuf, a former director in the Police Pension Office who…
Repentant pension thief gets light punishment
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The trial of former officials of the Nigerian Police Pension Fund before an Abuja High Court…
Currency smuggler forfeits money to FG
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja A forex currency smuggler who delayed his sentencing by a Nigerian Federal High Court siting in…
Rep Azubuogu Absolved By EFCC Witness
strong> Nnamdi Felix / Abuja A witness called by Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, at the resumed trial…
88 Year-old Grandpa Charged with Fraud
By Henry Ojelu/ Judiciary Correspondent A 88 year-old grandfather, Olusola Alaba has been arraigned before a Lagos High Court sitting…
Man with $188,858 changes guilty plea
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja An alleged money launderer, Abdulrasheed Ibrahim, who was slated for sentencing on Monday having pleaded guilty…
Senator Ugbane, Elumelu for retrial
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Former Chairman, of Nigeria’s Senate Committee on Power, Senator Nicholas Yahaya Ugbane and his counterparts at…
Ex-NIMASA Boss Re-Arraigned
By Akin kuponiyi The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Monday, re-arraigned the former Director-General of Nigeria Maritime Administration and…
Man with $188,858 to be sentenced Monday
A Nigerian Federal High Court sitting in Abuja will on Monday January 21, 2013 sentence one Abdulrasheed Ibrahim for attempting…
New date for Akingbola’s case against EFCC
A Nigerian Federal High Court, Lagos has fixed Feb. 12 for hearing in a suit filed by former Managing Director…
Two nabbed for impersonating EFCC officials
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arrested two suspects, Tanimu Abubakar (also known as Ibrahim) and Mohammed Yaba…
Nigerian lawyer Babalakin charged
Henry Ojelu/ Judiciary correspondent The hide and seek game between Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and businessman Dr.…
Court Extends Forfeiture Order on Sylva’s assets
Justice A.R. Muhammed of the Nigerian Federal High Court, in Abuja today granted the application by the Economic and Financial…
Aide of Nigeria’s richest woman arrested for fraud
Vincent Ayewah, an aide of Mrs Folorunsho Alakija, Africa’s richest woman and oil mogul, has been arrested by Nigeria’s Economic…
Fraud: Court Remands Kaduna Deputy Speaker
Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna has ordered that the Deputy Speaker of the Kaduna State House of Assembly, Dr.…