Tag: Financial Crimes
Land Scam Is Biggest Fraud In FCT —Lamorde
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Ibrahim Lamorde on Tuesday decried fraudulent dealings in land acquisition…
Fuel Subsidy Crooks Will Be Dealt With –EFCC
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has acknowledged its receipt of the report of the House of Representatives Committee…
EFCC Concludes Case Against Fraud Suspect
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday closed its case against a Lagos-based businessman, George Nwokonko, 52 standing…
EFCC Arraigns Two Bank Managers, Five Others Over N25M Frad
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday arraigned three bank staff, two civil servants and two companies before…
EFCC Arraigns 79-Year Old Man For Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Wednesday, dragged a 79-year old Clement John Adiamiko Uwemedimo, a.k.a. Professor and…
Lamorde Warns Civil Servants On Corruption
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, has charged public servants to eschew all…
N399m Scam: Ex Pension Boss Gets Bail
Embattled former Director in the Pension Office at the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation, Dr. Sani…
Falana Seeks Reorganisation Of EFCC
Mr. Femi Falana, a lawyer and human rights activist, has called on the Federal Government to reorganise the legal department…
EFCC Arraigns Man,79 For Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday dragged 79-year old Clement John Adiamiko Uwemedimo aka ‘Professor’ and his…
EFCC Arraigns Two Over $149,000 Love Scam
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned two suspected internet fraudsters, Olubode Olukotun and Olamide Adekeye on a…
Oil And Gas Sector Critical In Anti-Graft War – Lamorde
The Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde has described the oil and gas industry as…
Court Okays Pasting Charge On Sylva’s House
The case instituted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, against former Bayelsa state governor, Timipre Silva, proceeded on…
N14.5b Pension Fraud: Perm Sec, 5 Others Docked
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday arraigned a Permanent Secretary in the Federal Pension Office and five…
Ex-Intercontinental Bank Chief, Erastus Akingbola Docked For Theft
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, this morning formally docked the former Chief Executive Officer of Intercontinental Bank Plc,…
I Did Not Forfeit Any Property To EFCC —Bafarawa
Former Governor of Sokoto State and a presidential aspirant of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Attahiru Bafarawa, has said…
Court Defers Trial Of Ex-Spring Bank Chiefs
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has adjourned the arraignment of former Board members of Spring Bank and the…
EFCC Storms Children’s Home
Six officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday raided the premises of the Child Rights and…
Pastor, 2 Others Charged With Fraud
Three persons, including a pastor, were on Thursday arraigned before an Ikeja High Court in Lagos for allegedly defrauding a…
N5.2B REA FRAUD : You Have A Case To Answer, Court Tells Ugbane
Hard-fighting former Senate committee chairman on power, Senator Nicholas Ugbane on Monday 1 November lost a major bid to quash…
Money Laundering: Case Against Fani-Kayode Adjourned
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has adjourned till 15 December a case of money laundering preferred against the…
New Judge Takes Over Akingbola’s Case
The trial of the former Chief Executive Officer of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Dr. Erastus Akingbola, temporarily suffered a setback this…
Bomb Scare At EFCC
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, this morning informed the general public of the rising wave of bomb threats…
ICPC Chairman Charges Parties On Corruption
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Miscellaneous Offences Commission (ICPC) has demanded that political parties submit their anti-graft strategies for…
Money Laundering: Cecilia Ibru Jailed
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, South-West Nigeria, this afternoon sentenced the former Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Oceanic…
N1.3bn Fraud: Court Cautions Nyame’s Counsel Over Un-guarded Statements
A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday September 28th, 2010 scolded counsel to former…
N650m Fraud: EFCC Re-Arrests Ladipo Market Leader, Association’s Accounts Frozen
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, at the weekend re-arrested the president of Aguiyi Ironsi International Trade Centre, Ladipo…
Ribadu Joins Prezy Race
The former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, has formally joined the crowded race…
No Measure Of Threat Will Deter Us –Waziri
Against the backdrop of rising threats and un-provoked violence against officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, its…
EFCC Head Of Forensic Unit Killed In Kaduna
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has confirmed that its head of forensic unit, Abdullahi Muazu was killed in…
Bringing Crooks To Face Justice
It seems the era where sports administrators dipped their hands into public till and took the much they could is…