Tag: efcc
Ex-council official to spend 7 years in prison
Justice A. S. Dahiru of Sokoto State High Court has sentenced a former Director of Sokoto South Local Government, Mr.…
Nigeria: High profile scammer jailed
Justice M. L. Shuaibu of Federal High Court, sitting in Kaduna on Thursday, July 12, 2012, sentenced a bribe taker,…
Court Orders EFCC To Release Daniel’s Passport
Justice Olanrewaju Mabekoje of the Ogun State High Court Thursday ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to release the International…
Ribadu: I’ll catch oil subsidy thieves in 7 days
DESMOND UTOMWEN/Abuja The pioneer Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Malam Nuhu Ribadu has boasted that should he be given…
World Bank: 6 charged in Nigeria for embezzlement
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arraigned Felix Maduegbuna, Stephen Fakrogha and Mbakwha Cooperative Society on one hand;…
Tambuwal docked by EFCC Over fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Tuesday, June 26, 2012, arraigned Mr. Bello Tambuwal, 34, of Tambuwal Global…
Octogenarian docked over land scam
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned the duo of Emmanuel Ogwale, 80, and John Nwafor before a…
Italian in Nigerian custody commits suicide
Ayorinde Oluokun/abuja Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Tuesday said a 52 year-old Italian, Mr. Mauro Zanin, a…
Nigerian student posing as ‘gay’ jailed 20 years
Justice Mohammed L. Shuaibu of the Federal High Court, sitting in Kaduna has sentenced an undergraduate of the University of…
EFCC: No cocaine in home of ex-Governor Sylva’s brother
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has denied allegations that it discovered a bag full of cocaine during a…
Student Docked Over Sale of Father’s House
Ayorinde Oluokun The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned an undergraduate of the Federal University of Technology, Yola,…
Polish woman declared wanted by EFCC
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has told an Abuja High Court that it had again failed in its…
EFCC tenders documents in pension scam case
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on June 13th , 2012, tendered two sets of documents in the prosecution…
Witness stuns EFCC at Finbank chiefs trial
An employee of Finbank Plc, Mr Ifeanyi Obiekwe, on Tuesday exonerated the bank’s former Managing Director, Okey Nwosu, and three…
Land the biggest scam in Nigeria’s capital
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr Ibrahim Lamorde on Tuesday decried fraudulent dealings in land acquisition in…
Wonder Bank operator docked
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned one Eronini Iwunze before Justice G.U Umar of the Federal High…
2 Rep members For Trial Over SEC bribe
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja As controversies continue to trail the ongoing probe of the Security Exchange Commission by an Adhoc…
EFCC Arraigns Wonder Bank Operators
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday arraigned a Wonder Bank operator, Mr. Moses Samanja Audu, before Justice…
Boko Haram, Politicians And Taxes
As public servants loot our treasury and Boko Haram wreaks havoc and spills innocent blood, many are asking, ‘why do…
Businessman Battles EFCC Over Unpaid N10m Judgment Money
In a bid to claim a judgement sum of N10.03 million from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, a…
EFCC Docks Four Over Illegal Refineries
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned Felix Nwosu, Sadau Isa, Aliyu Hamza Hassan and Usman Nuhu on…
Senate Did Not Stop Probe of Pension Scam -EFCC
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has said contrary to recent media reports, the Senate committee or the Senate…
Daniel Granted N500m Bail
After four hours of proceedings Monday, Justice Olanrewaju Mabekoje of the Ogun state High court 5 sitting in Isabo, Abeokuta,…
Nigeria convicts 288 over internet crimes
The EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde has revealed that the Commission has convicted over 288 persons over sundry Internet crimes. He…
EFCC Reboots Case Against Gbenga Daniel
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Monday at the Ogun State High Court, Isabo, Abeokuta, re-arraigned the former governor…
Nigeria: How 3 Fed officials stole N110m Pension Fund
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja. The Federal Civil Service Commission, FCSC, which is charged with the recruitment of staff for all…
Nigeria: Pension Scam accused get bail
A temporary reprieve was secured on Tuesday by the six accused persons who standing trial over an alleged pilfering of…
Shun Bribery, Corruption, SFU Compol Warns
The new Commissioner of Police attached to Special Fraud Unit, SFU, Milverton, Ikoyi, Lagos, Compol Johnson Tunde Ogunsakin has warned…
Is EFCC Fighting Corruption Or Freeing The Corrupt? —Uzoma Ahamefule
Immediately the news broke that Nuhu Ribadu has been appointed the chairman Petroleum Revenue Special Taskforce, the first thing that…
Nigerian Ex-Governor Fails to stop Trial
A Federal High Court sitting in Gombe, Gombe state, on 20 March , ruled that the former governor, Alhaji Danjuma…