CORRUPTION
EFCC Arrests APC Ex-Governor For Fraud, Money Laundering
A former governor of Nassarawa state, Tanko AL-Makura has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. According to PremiumTimes, Al-Makura was allegedly arrested alongside his wife, Mairo by EFCC operatives. Citing anonymous sources, the newspaper added that the couples were being grilled by operatives of the anti-graft agency at its headquarters in Abuja. ABN TV gathered that the arrest...
Alleged N600m Debt: Court Faults AMCON’s Seizure Of Buhari’s Property
A Federal High Court in Abuja has faulted the procedure adopted by the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) in obtaining an order empowering it to seize houses belonging to Senator Buhari Abdulfatai for allegedly owing a new generation bank N600million. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling on Thursday, found that AMCON misled and concealed important facts from the court...
EFCC Arrests Ogun Speaker Oluomo At Lagos Airport
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arrested Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo at the Muritala Muhammad Airport, Lagos State. Our correspondent gathered that Oluomo was arrested over allegations bordering on financial crimes. A staff member at the assembly who pleaded anonymity said the speaker was picked up this morning at the Murtala Mohammed Airport,...
Nigerian, 29 Declared Wanted By US For Allegedly Defrauding Hospital $31m
A 29-year-old Nigerian man, Chidozie Collins Obasi, has been declared wanted in the United States for alleged fraud. The Nigerian is accused of allegedly defrauding US hospitals of $31 million by offering non-existent COVID-19 ventilators for sale. This was disclosed in a statement by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday. It added that the suspect perpetrated the scheme from Nigeria...
ICPC Discovers Duplicated Projects Worth N400bn, N50bn Ghost Workers’ Salaries In Budgets
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission on Thursday said the 2021 and 2022 budgets were padded with duplicated projects worth N400bn by ministries, departments and agencies. الربح الحقيقى من الانترنت It also said N49.9bn was earmarked as salaries for ghost workers in the first half of 2022. ICPC Chairman, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, stated this during an interactive...
It’ll Take Collective Will, Resolve Of All Nigerians To End Corruption — Dariye
A former governor of Plateau State Joshua Dariye says “with collective will and the resolve of every Nigerian”, corruption will be ended in the country. The ex-governor, who spoke on Channels Television’s NewsNight programme aired on Monday, said his conviction alongside a former governor of Taraba State Jolly Nyame for corruption charges has not in any way ended graft which...
Court Orders Final Forfeiture Of Diezani’s Abuja Assets
Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday ordered the final forfeiture of two Abuja properties and two luxury cars belonging to a former minister of petroleum resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, to the Federal Government. The two properties are located at Plot 1854 Mohammed Mahashir Street, and No. 6, Aso Drive, in the highbrow Asokoro and Maitama...
Court Convicts Mama Boko Haram Over N34m Fraud
The Borno State High Court in Maiduguri has convicted and sentenced, Aisha Alkali-Wakil, also known as Mama Boko Haram, as well as one Tahiru Saidu-Daura and Lawal Shoyode to seven years imprisonment. They were prosecuted by the Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a three-count charge of conspiracy and cheating to the tune of...
Alleged Bank Fraud: EFCC Arrests Kogi Assembly Candidate With $610,500 Cash In Abuja
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested the Kogi State House of Assembly candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Ismaila Atumeyi, with N326 million and $140,500 cash. Atumeyi who is seeking to represent Ankpa 11 Constituency in the Kogi State House of Assembly was arrested on Sunday, October 30, 2022, alongside one Joshua Dominic, an alleged serial fraudster,...
EFCC Re-arraigns Former Kaduna Governor, Others Over Diezani’s N700m Cash
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, November 21, 2022, re-arraigned a former governor of Kaduna State, Mukhtar Ramalan Yero before Justice R.M Aikawa of the Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna on an eight-count amended charge bordering on money laundering. The re-arraignment is sequel to the transfer of the former trial judge, Justice M.G Umar, from the...
