Tag: efcc
Atuche’s counsel denies threat to EFCC witness
Lawyers to a former Bank PHB boss, Francis Atuche, on Thursday dismissed allegation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission…
Witness exonerates defunct Bank PHB CEO
A prosecution witness, Mr Benedict Omonua, on Tuesday exonerated a former Managing Director of Bank PHB, Francis Atuche, of the…
EFCC closes case against ex-minister
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday at a Federal High Court in Abuja…
2 drug suspects arrested
Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent Two suspected drug traffickers arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have blamed their friend…
Akingbola Fails To Produce Witness In Court
A former managing director of Intercontinental Bank Plc now Access Bank Plc, Erastus Akingbola and one of his associates, Bayo…
EFCC Dissociates Self From Report
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, says it has dissociated itself from a report entitled, Corruption; Why the EFCC Lost Steam, which…
EFCC blames corruption for Nigeria’s poor infrastructure
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has blamed corruption for the decay of infrastructure in the country. Mrs. Rose…
72 year-old man charged with fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC has arraigned Mr. Abdullahi Mohammed alias Dan Hadeja, 72, before Justice Abubakar Tijani…
Corruption: Why the EFCC lost steam
Simon Ateba The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has accused the President Goodluck Jonathan administration of being unwilling to…
Nigerian banks sabotaging anti-corruption war, says EFCC chief
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, has decried some unethical practices in the banking…
Bank manager, 2 other docked for fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday, 7 September, arraigned a Business Manager with the United Bank of…
EFCC declares 3 oil marketers wanted for mega fraud
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has declared three oil marketers implicated in the multi- billion naira fuel subsidy…
NGOs now used to launder funds, says EFCC
Ayorinde Oluokun Head of the Special Control Unit against Money Laundering, SCUML, of EFCC, Angela Nworgu has alleged that Non…
Bizman steps out to claim Ibori’s $15m slush money
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The controversy surrounding the $15m bribe that former Delta state governor James Ibori gave to Nuhu…
ACN insists Jonathan sack spokesman
Jonathan must fire Doyin Okupe, ACN insists, warns against cover up The Action Congress of Nigeria has insisted that Dr…
3 bank officials docked over N850m scam
EFCC Arraigns Keystone Bank Officials Over N855m Scam The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today arraigned three officials of…
Customer, Bank In Legal Battle Over Fraudulent Deduction
In a bid to forestall the arrest of its staff by Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, in respect of…
EFCC docks bizman over dud cheques
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned the Chief Executive Officer of Tafag Nigeria Limited, Engr Thompson O…
N3b subsidy scam: EFCC set to charge 18 suspects
Ayorinde Oluokun/ Abuja The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC said it has concluded arrangements to prosecute the first batch…
Nigeria confiscates ex-governor Ibori’s $15m bribe
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Efforts by the Federal Government to confiscate the unclaimed bribe sum of $15 million allegedly offered…
Fraud suspect sent to prison
A Federal High Court sitting in Benin City, Edo State has refused bail to Nosa Agho, alias Obama. Agho was…
N2.5m Fraud: Ex- Banker Jailed Five Years
Justice Dije Aboki of High Court of Kano State has sentenced Mr. Idris Ado Zango, 31, an ex- banker who…
Banker docked for N77m fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned a banker, Mrs. Nneka Nwilene at the Federal High Court III,…
OAU student remanded for fraud
A Federal High Court sitting in Enugu has ordered that one Daramola Olawole, a student of Obafemi Awolowo University be…
Nigeria’s $2.5m Ponzi scheme operator charged
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has charged a 35-year-old man, Segun Bright before an Ikeja High Court in Lagos…
Ex-bank manager jailed for fraud
Justice Dije Aboki of Kano High Court, has sentenced Mr. Samuel Owoyele, a former manager with the United Bank of…
Woman charged Over Ukraine Admission Scam
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arraigned one Charity Komuo and her company, Charity Luba Consultancy before a…
Pension Fraud: Court freezes assets of 6 accused
Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory , Justice Lawal H. Gumi has granted an interim order to the Economic…
3 clerics docked for fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arraigned three clerics before Justice M. S. Shuaibu of the Federal High…
Nursing mum, 4 bankers charged with fraud
Justice C. O. Ogisi of the Delta State High Court, Asaba has ordered that five suspected fraudsters be remanded in…