Students hold seven EFCC operatives hostage in Ibadan, says official Students of the Federal College of Forestry , Idi-shin Estate, Ibadan, Oyo State have held seven operatives of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, hostage in the campus. EFCC in a statement on Wednesday said its seven men from the Ibadan Zonal Command were on…
President Bola Tinubu on Thursday approved the appointment of Mr. Ola Olukoyede to serve as the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for a renewable term of four years in the first instance, pending Senate confirmation. This comes nearly four months after he suspended the erstwhile anti-graft agency chief, Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa….
Justice Farouk Adamu of Kano High Court has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) and Code of Conduct Bureau and other agencies of the federal government to stop questioning or investigating officials of Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-corruption Commission, PCACC. The Experte Order was granted to the…
The Kano Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, said no less than 81 suspects were arrested for various financial crimes in Kano, Jigawa, and Katsina states, between January and July this year. Kano Zonal Commander, Farouk Dogondaji, who made the disclosure while playing host to the leadership of Kano Correspondents’ Chapel,…
The Supreme Court on Friday nullified the conviction of Peter Nwaoboshi, who was jailed for corruption. Mr Nwaoboshi represented Delta North senatorial district at the Nigerian Senate. He was convicted by the Court of Appeal in Lagos on a two-count charge of fraud and money laundering on 1 July 2022. But Mr Nwaoboshi approached the…
President Bola Tinubu has suspended indefinitely from office of the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa to allow for proper investigation into his conduct while in office. According to a statement issued by the director information office of the secretary to the government of the Federation Willie Bassey The Suspension…
The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has secured the conviction of one Ibrahim Musa Dabai before Justice M.N Yunusa of the Federal High Court sitting in Kano, Kano State on a one count charge bordering on tampering with Nigerian currency. Mr Ibrahim, was arrested by officers of the National…
The governor is under investigation for alleged contract fraud and diversion of funds to the tune of N70billion.
A former minister of power, Sale Mamman, is in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on alleged N22 billion fraud. Mamman, who was minister under President Muhammadu Buhari from 2019 to 2021, was arrested in the early hours of Wednesday, May 10, 2023. The arrest is said to be in connection…
