The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will on Friday, May 31, 2019, arraign the controversial official of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Philomina Chieshe who claimed that the missing N35 million (Thirty Five Million Naira) JAMB proceeds in her custody was swallowed by a snake in Makurdi, Benue State JAMB office. Chieshe […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday arrested one Murtala Muhammad said to be the younger brother of Abdullahi Shinkafi, secretary to the Zamfara state government, with N60 million in the boot of his car. In a statement, the commission said its Sokoto zonal command arrested Muhammad following intelligence report. The anti-graft agency […]
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The trial of Esar Dangabar and six others in the alleged N14 billion police pension scam again was stalled in an FCT High Court, following his ill health. Dangabar is among seven persons standing trial before Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf. Others charged along with him are Ahmed Wada; Atiku Kigo; Veronica Onyegbulam; Sani Zira; Uzoma Attang […]
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A Malaysian, Tan Ah Chai Richard, was on Wednesday remanded in Ikoyi prison for €250,000,000.00 fraud. Richard, who was arraigned alongside his company, Coastal Asia Investments Limited, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal office, appeared before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in lkeja, Lagos on a five-count charge […]
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Michael Rotich, Kenya’s athletics coach, who was sent home from the 2016 Olympics, was banned for 10 years on Wednesday. Rotich was sanctioned for seeking a bribe of $12,000 to help athletes beat doping tests. The tracks coach was banned by the IAAF ethics board, following a three-year investigation prompted by an undercover expose’ by […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ilorin Zonal Office has commenced investigations into the alleged illegal payment of about N400 million to some members of the Kwara State House of Assembly and the State Executive Council members before the expiration of their tenures. To this end, the anti-graft agency is currently interrogating the Secretary […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has filed 11 charges bordering on fraud against musician, Azeez Fashola, popularly known as Naira Marley, for alleged credit card fraud. The charges with suit number FHC /L / 178C / 19, were filed before a Lagos State High Court on Thursday. Marley risks seven years in jail […]
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The media adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Ikechukwu Eze, says the bribery allegation against his principal was expected after his election duty in South Africa. In a statement on Saturday, Eze said the former president did not ask for or receive any bribe in regards to the controversial OPL 245 oil deal. Documents reportedly […]
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A witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Nurudeen Bello, in the alleged N2.8billion fraud trial involving Ibrahim Abdul-salam, former Managing Director of Nigeria Airspace Management Agency, NAMA, and others, on Friday, May 3, 2019, told Justice Babs Kuewumi of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos how the defendants looted, laundered […]
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The Abuja Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arrested four suspects; Ajiero Onyeka, Clement Peter, Mustapha Zubiri, Agbo Austine Taylor for allegedly attempting to carry out a fraudulent Bank Wire Transfer to the tune of $200,000 about N72, 000, 000 (Seventy Two Million Naira). A team of EFCC operatives swooped […]
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