Investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Kanu Idagu, told a Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday that a former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, Patrick Akpobolokemi, and seven others defrauded the agency to the tune of N1.15bn within 19 months. According to Punchng, Idagu told Justice Saliu Saidu […]
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Malam Is’haq Modibbo-Kawu, Director General of Nigeria Broadcasting Commission (NBC), says Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has been directed to return the N10 billion seized from it. Modibbo-Kawu, who announced this at a news conference in Abuja on Thursday, said President Muhammadu Buhari gave the directive. The money was seized by EFCC during the […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has made known that more arrests of looters are coming as it advised all persons engaged in the looting of the nation’s treasury to have a re-think, correspondent report. It further announced plans to vigorously pursue and prosecute persons involved in graft. At an official launch of a new initiative of […]
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Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) investigators probing ex-First Lady Patience Jonathan’s link with five choice buildings, including a N5billion hotel in Abuja, have unearthed seven additional properties believed to be owned by her. The detectives were in Port Harcourt (Rivers State) and Yenagoa (Bayelsa State) all week trying to establish whether four properties in […]
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Niger Delta militants, the Niger Delta Peoples Professional Volunteer Force have threatened to launch an IED attack on the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Towers in the Federal Capital Territoty Abuja, if the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) went ahead to arrest former First Lady, Patience Jonathan over the USD15m found in her bank […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested and detained one of its operatives, whose name was given as Uzodinma Kingsley Agbazue for demanding and collecting a bribe of N15 million from a Nigerian lawmaker under investigation for undisclosed financial crime,. Agbazue, a Deputy Detective Superintendent, DDS, was disarmed and detained on Thursday following a […]
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The EFCC has arraigned one Chike Nnaemeka, for allegedly tricking an official of the Federal Road Safety Corps into marrying him and paying for the wedding. Nnaemeka, aka Dr. Justified, was said to have duped his victim, Nkechi Ani, of N6.7m. The EFCC, in a statement by its spokesman, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, said Nnaemeka, who claimed to […]
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A High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital has declined an ex parte order sought by the state government to restrain the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from investigating the finances of the state. The presiding judge, Justice Cornelius Akintayo ordered the applicant to put the defendants in the case on notice […]
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Former Governor of Imo State, Achike Udenwa has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission arrested, for allegedly receiving N350m from the Director of Finance of the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, Senator Nenadi Usman, during the build-up to the 2015 presidential elections. The money was said to have been part of the N4bn […]
Read More The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested one ThankGod Echem, a fake lawyer, for defrauding his client of seven million naira in Port Harcourt. A statement by Mr Wilson Uwujaren, the commission’s Head of Media and Publicity, in Abuja said on Monday that Echem, who confessed to being a school certificate holder, was arrested […]
Read More A member of the House of Representatives, Sunday Karimi from going to the United States for refusing to appear before it in connection with ongoing investigation of a N200million given to his company. The EFCC has it that the cash was wired into a company with links to Karimi through Sylva Mcnamara, a slush firm […]
Read More The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) on Monday arraigned two persons, Mr Animashaun Sadiq Abimbola and Miss Adeniji Olamide Modupeoluwa, for allegedly forging National Diploma Certificate (ND) of Osun State College of Technology, Esa Oke, for the purpose of obtaining a British visa. According to correspondent, the forged documents were said to have been […]
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