The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has reportedly secured a court warrant to arrest four officials of the Rivers government over an alleged N117 billion suspicious transaction. The anti-graft agency is investigating the transaction of the said sum which was supposedly withdrawn over the counter in the last three years. The EFCC had invited […]
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The acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, says Godswill Akpabio, former minority leader of the senate, is still under investigation despite his defection to APC. Akpabio, who left office as governor of Akwa Ibom state in 2015, had been grilled on several occasions by the EFCC over allegations of […]
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Former director-general of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Patrick Akpobolokemi, has been acquitted of a N2.6 billion fraud charge by the Lagos division of the appeal court. Yargatta Nimpar, judge of the appeal court, upheld the no-case submission filed by Akpolokemi, after it was dismissed by a high court in October 2017. The Economic […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it has arrested a “pastor’’ over an alleged contract scam of N1.8 billion. The spokesman of the commission, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, who disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on Thursday, identified the suspect as James Ezekiel. Ezekiel, according to the commission’s spokesman, claimed to be the […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has taken Ramalan Yero, former governor of Kaduna, Nuhu Somo Wya, former minister of state for power, and two others into detention. They were detained on Wednesday by the Kaduna zonal office of the EFCC over the N700m campaign funds released by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) before […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it will arraign a former PDP governorship candidate in Edo, Mr Osagie Ize-Iyamu; an ex-deputy governor of the state, Mr Lucky Imasuen, and three others on Thursday. The accused, according to the commission’s spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, will appear in a Federal High Court in Benin City […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Tuesday docked the Secretary to the Rivers State Government, Mr. Kenneth Kobani and a politician, Mr. Samuel Okposo on a six-count charge of money laundering before a Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt. EFCC accused the duo of receiving the sum of N750million, part of the […]
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Nigeria, represented by Ibrahim Magu, the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), will henceforth lead Heads of Anti-Corruption Agencies in Commonwealth Africa, comprising 19 countries. The appointment was announced at the 8th Regional Conference of the body which ended in Abuja on Friday. The group said in a communique that the […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja vowed never to allow history to repeat itself like during his term as military Head of State when corruption to fought and defeated as well as incarcerated him. The President stated this when he inaugurated the head office building of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) at […]
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Speaking at the opening ceremony of the 8th Commonwealth Regional Conference for Heads of Anti-Corruption Agencies in Abuja, on Monday, Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, says the fight against corruption will not be won until some Nigerian leaders pass through the doors of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The professor said the country had […]
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