The Department of State Services (DSS) says it has handed over a police officer, Sani Baba-Inna, to police authorities after investigating him for alleged extortion and defamation. DSS Public Relations Officer, Peter Afunanya, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. According to him, Mohammed who is a security aide to Mrs Aisha Buhari […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari says the fight against corruption is not moving at the pace his administration wants because the system is slow. The president said this when he received the federal capital territory community, who paid him Christmas homage at his official residence on Tuesday in Abuja. Buhari, who apparently was reacting to those accusing […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has secured a court order empowering it to seize 46 properties purportedly owned by Ngozi Olojeme, the Deputy Chairman, Finance Committee of the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation in the 2015 general election. The order was issued by the Federal High Court, Abuja, The Punch reports. The soon-to-be-confiscated properties consist of 27 […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on December 17, 2018, arraigned a former Chairman, Board of Directors, Skye Bank Plc, Tunde Ayeni, before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court, Abuja on an eight-count charge, bordering on money laundering to the tune of about N8 billion. Mr Ayeni was arraigned alongside Timothy Oguntayo, […]
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Ibrahim Magu, acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Thursday told Doris Okuwobi, a judge of a Lagos state high court, that he had never been investigated by the Department of State Services (DSS). Magu said this while giving evidence in a N100m suit he filed against the publisher of The […]
Continue ReadingThe head of Edo office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Yakubu Mailafia Monday said corruption is responsible for the epileptic power supply in the country. This is even as he warned that all would be vote-buyers in the 2019 general elections should be ready for face the full wrath of the […]
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Valentine Ashi, a judge of the federal capital territory high court, has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Department of State Services (DSS) and other security agencies to arrest Diezani Alison-Madueke, former minister of petroleum resources,within 72 hours. According to Tony Orilade, the order was made following an ex parte motion made before […]
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A federal capital territory (FCT) high court, Apo, has granted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) leave to arraign Diezani Alison-Madueke, former petroleum minister, and Olajide Omokore, a former chairman of Atlantic Energy Drilling company, on February 25. Alison-Madueke and Omokore are to be arraigned on five counts bordering on conspiracy and illegal act […]
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Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arrested one Abbas Lakis, a Lebanese for money laundering offence. Lakis was picked up at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, following intelligence report that he had on him, undeclared huge sums of monies aboard the Egypt Airline bringing him from the Kano Airport en […]
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The House of Representatives Committee on Land Transport has summoned the Minister of Transport, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi due to allegations of corruption, According to Channels Television, the Chairman of the committee, Abdulmumin Jibrin, disclosed this in an exclusive interview after plenary on Thursday in Abuja, the nation’s capital. He explained that the minister was summoned […]
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