The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned Babatunde Keshinro, a staff of Polaris Bank Limited (former Skye Bank Plc.) before an Ikeja Special Offences Court for allegedly stealing N12.6 million belonging to a customer. The EFCC charged Keshinro with nine counts bordering on theft, forgery and fraudulent use of the account. The EFCC’s Counsel, Mrs. Bilikisu […]
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A former spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh has been sentenced to 39 years in prison for money laundering. Okon Abang, judge of a federal high court Abuja, handed down the sentence on Tuesday. The judge had earlier found him guilty of the seven-count charge filed against him by the Economic and […]
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The Gombe State Government has procured 100 HP desktop computers. This was revealed by TrackaNG, a project initiated by pro-transparency group, BudgIT, that tracks the performance of government budgets. TrackaNG, which also collaborates with the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, posted photographs of the computer on its official Twitter handle. “N100m was […]
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The acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has urged the United Kingdom to extradite Diezani Alison-Madueke, former minister of petroleum resources. The anti-graft agency has filed charges of alleged money laundering against the former minister who left the country for the UK shortly before the inception of the President […]
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One Mr. Nwalozie Julius has been handed a three years prison sentence by a federal high court in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state, for impersonating Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Julius was arraigned by the Uyo zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on one-count charge, bordering on […]
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The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu has said going to work late is corruption. He made this statement during an rally organised by the EFCC, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Ministry of Women Affairs and the Ministry of Sports and youth development. in his words, “Women and children […]
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Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (Rtd) on Tuesday disclosed that the Custom Command at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport had intercepted 8.06 million U.S. dollars from the airport. Ali, during a media briefing in Lagos, said that the dollars loaded in six big `bagco’ bags were packed in a coaster bus belonging to the […]
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Embattled former lawmaker who represented Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Shehu Sani, has regained his freedom after spending four weeks in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The was arrested and detained for alleged extortion and bribery and has been in the custody of the EFCC. Sani […]
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Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, on Tuesday, January 28, 2020, convicted Damilola Ahmed Adeyeri and his mother, Alaba Kareem Adeyeri, on a four-count charge of conspiracy and obtaining money under false pretence to the tune of $82, 570. 00, (Eighty Two Thousand Five Hundred and Seventy, US Dollars.), preferred against […]
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Presidential spokesman, Malam Garba Shehu, has said the corruption perception index by Transparency International (TI) which ranked Nigeria low could be based on statements from the opposition party. Recall that in its 2019 corruption perception index published on Thursday, Transparency International ranked Nigeria 146 of 180 countries studied, two points lower than 148 the country […]
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