The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has asked the Federal High Court in Lagos to order the temporary forfeiture of $8,435,788.84 and ₦7.35 billion suspected to be owned by Mrs. Patience Jonathan, The Nation report. The EFCC yesterday told Justice Mojisola Olatoregun that the funds, which it believes came from Bayelsa State, were found […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has seized a hotel allegedly belonging to Mrs. Patience Jonathan, the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan. According to correspondent, the anti-graft agency also seized three other properties in Abuja allegedly belonging to Patience. The five-storey hotel is located near Setraco Construction Company, beside Mabushi Kado Expressway. Although the […]
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Another multi-billion naira property has been traced to a former First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is to mark the property as “being under investigation” and may place it under Interim Asset Forfeiture, The Nation learnt yesterday. The relationship between Mrs. Jonathan and two companies was being probed by […]
Read More Former Nigerian First Lady, Patience Jonathan, on Monday visited the Maitama branch of the Skye Bank in Abuja to withdraw part of her $5.9 million recently unfrozen by a Lagos High Court. But she met a brickwall. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had procured a stay-of-execution of the judgement and also simultaneously filed an […]
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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the Federal Government to the Federal High Court in Lagos asking the court for “leave to apply for Judicial Relief and to seek an order of Mandamus directing and or compelling the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami (SAN) to institute and […]
Read More 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 […]
Read More Four firms charged with money laundering, alongside a former Special Adviser on Domestic Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, have pleaded guilty to the offence. The four companies pleaded guilty to conspiring with Dudafa; a lawyer, Amajuoyi Briggs; and a banker, Adedamola Bolodeoku, to launder a sum of $15,591,700 on or about November 13, […]
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The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has denied the allegation that the President Muhammadu Buhari, led Federal Government is persecuting Former President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Patience. The Minister revealed this in an interview with journalists in Oro, Kwara State, on Tuesday, saying it would be wrong to submit that the […]
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