A high court sitting in Adamawa has ordered the arrest of Diezani Alison-Madueke, former minister of petroleum resources, for giving a bribe of N362 million to INEC officials to influence the 2015 presidential election. The Presiding Judge, Nathan Musa, gave this order on Thursday while delivering judgement against Ibrahim Umar and Sahabo Hamman, two staff […]
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Federal Agents in the United States of America have seized an aircraft belonging to a Nigerian facing multi-million dollar fraud charges in the country. As reported by WSB-TV, the seizure was made on Tuesday at the Peachtree DeKalb Airport in Georgia. Federal agents were said to have ransacked the aircraft for evidence, while another team […]
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Former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, says the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) needs to show that there are no sacred cows in the fight against corruption. Professor Jega gave the charge on Monday while reviewing a book launched by the EFCC in Abuja. The launch of the […]
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A former Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Fatai Owoseni, said on Thursday that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has become a monster. Owoseni, while describing Nigeria as a banana republic, said the EFCC had become a willing tool in the hands of whoever was in power. The retired police officer spoke in Lagos […]
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The Kwara state office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested 16 local government chairmen for allegedly misappropriating a loan of N4 billion. Local Government chairmen are also being accused of diverting 10% of the monthly internally generated revenue for their personal use. A statement by Wilson Uwujaren, EFCC’s spokesperson, said the […]
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The controller general of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Ja’afaru Ahmed, says he has set up a panel to probe Ikoyi Prisons, now known as “Ikoyi Custodial Centre”, following an investigation by Fisayo Soyombo, an undercover journalist. Soyombo spent eight days as an inmate in Ikoyi Prison — where he documented experiences on “drug abuse, sodomy, […]
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Mr Okoi Obono-Obla, former Chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel (SPIP), has been declared wanted by the Independent Corrupt Practises And Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC). Rasheedat Okoduwa, the spokesperson to the anti-graft agency made this known in a statement on Tuesday. Obono-Obla is declared wanted because “His repeated failure to appear before it […]
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Former senate president, Dr. Bukola Saraki, says the court which granted a temporary forfeiture order on his houses in Ikoyi was misled. Recall that federal high court sitting in Lagos had ordered the temporary forfeiture of two properties of Saraki in the Ikoyi area of Lagos state following an ex-parte application by the Economic and […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has confirmed that the loots recovered for the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is still in its custody, stating that it was being kept “for safety purposes”. Ibrahim Magu, the acting EFCC Chairman, disclosed this when Professor Mohammed Sambo, NHIS Executive Secretary, paid an advocacy visit to the […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, on Thursday, October 3, 2019 arraigned the duo of Brigadier General Tarelah Paul Boroh (rtd) and Hanafi Musa Moriki, before Justice O. O. Goodluck of the FCT High Court, Abuja on a nine count charge, bordering on criminal breach of trust to the tune of N974,768,466 and $1,914,000. […]
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