Court Threatens Arrest Warrant Against Stella Oduah, Others Over Alleged N10bn Fraud
A Federal High in Abuja has threatened to issue arrest warrants against former Aviation Minister, Stellah Oduah and eight others named in a charge pending should they fail to attend court on the next date. Justice Inyang Ekwo gave the warning on Monday when Oduah (now a serving Senator, representing Anambra North Senatorial District) and some other defendants were absent...
EFCC Revives Abia, Kano, Rivers, Other 10 Ex-govs’ N772bn Fraud Cases
…reopens cases against Theodore Orji, Fayose, Kwankwaso, Nnamani, Lamido, Sylva, and others •Diezani, other ex-ministers listed as agency vows not to spare politically exposed persons The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has reopened money laundering cases against 13 former governors and some former ministers, with the amounts involved running into over N853.8bn. According to PUNCH the amount at stake in the...
EFCC Re-arraigns Dasuki, Bafarawa, Yuguda, Others Over Alleged N388bn Money Laundering Charges
The Federal Government on Monday re-arraigned former National Security Adviser NSA, Col Sambo Dasuki, former Sokoto State Governor, Attahiru Bafarawa and former Minister of State for Finance, Bashir Yuguda on corruption charges. They were re-arraigne...
EFCC Charges State House Of Assembly Speaker Over Fraud Allegation
The Ondo State House of Assembly speaker, Bamidele Oleyelogun was threatened to be sent to prison after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) dragged him to the state High Court sitting at the Olokuta Correctional Centre, Akure, the state capital. Together with several members of the House, Oleyelogun was to be charged in court on charges of seminar fraud...
PDP Finances Not EFCC’s Business ― BoT
The Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Monday, declared that the party is not accountable to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and therefore, the anti-graft agency has no business with its finances. The board made the declaration after its meeting at the national headquarters of the party in Abuja that was called to...
EFCC Arraigns Comptroller Of Prisons For Employment Scam
Abubakar Mohammed Sani, a serving Deputy Comptroller of Nigerian Correctional Service, NCoS, was today arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, before Justice Hadiza Sabi’u Shagari of the Federal High Court Katsina on a six-count charge of conspiracy and obtaining by false pretense. The defendant allegedly used his position as an officer of the Katsina Command of the...
Alleged Fraud: ICPC Vows To Appeal High Court Judgment On Ex-JAMB Registrar, Ojerinde
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) said it will appeal the ruling of the Federal High Court, Abuja on the civil rights claim filed by the former Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Prof. Adedibu Ojerinde. ICPC said made the disclosure in a statement. The court had fined the ICPC N1 million damages and...
EFCC Slams 21-count Charges On Two Female Bankers Over N197.2m Thievery
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has preferred a 21-count charge against two female bankers, Olawunmi Audu and Glory Michael Sado, before a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja, for allegedly stealing about N197.2 million from the account of a customer. Vanguard reports that the anti-graft agency alleged that the Defendants conspired and transferred the sum of N197.2...
EFCC Declares Mompha Wanted
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has declared Nigeria’s popular Instagram celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha, aka Mompha, wanted. It urged Nigerians with information on Mompha’s whereabouts to speak up or contact the nearest police st...
EFCC Docks Ex-Legislative Aide For N6.5m Fraud, 3 Others Convicted Of Cybercrime In Kwara
The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, April 6, 2022 arraigned one Segun Emmanuel Oni, a Personal Assistant to former Senator representing Kwara South Senatorial Constituency, Senator Simeon Ajibola, for criminal breach of trust and fraud to the tune of N6.5million. Oni, 42, from Isapa in Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State was...
