The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has urged a review of Nigerian laws to enable anti-graft agencies in the country retain a percentage of the loot recovered to fund their operations.The Acting Chairman of the commission, Mr Ibrahim Magu, made the request at the national anti-corruption conference organised by the Presidential Advisory Committee against […]
Continue ReadingMalam Is’haq Modibbo-Kawu, Director General of Nigeria Broadcasting Commission (NBC), says President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to return the N10 billion seized from it.Modibbo-Kawu, who announced this at a news conference in Abuja on Thursday. The money was seized by EFCC during the tenure of former DG of […]
Continue ReadingAn erstwhile governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, has denied media reports claiming that he has retrieved 48 houses seized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). In a statement on Monday in Yenagoa by his media adviser, Mr. Doifie Buokoribo, Sylva described the report as strange, speculative and malicious. He said neither he […]
Continue ReadingThe Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared Ibrahim Shema, the immediate past governor of Katsina state, wanted.Wilson Uwujaren, spokesman of the commission, made this public, in a statement. “The public is hereby notified that Ibrahim Shema, a former governor of katsina state, is wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in […]
Continue ReadingTwo choice shopping malls reported acquired by a serving Resident Electoral Commissioner with her share of a bribe dished out by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of last year’s general elections, have been seized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). A sum of N49 million found in the bank account of the […]
Continue ReadingThe Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in rejecting a proposal by the president of the Nigerian Bar Association, Abubakar Mahmoud, for the agency to be stripped of its prosecutorial powers, says the call is “self-serving” and aimed at creating “a cabal of untouchables”. In a stinging statement signed by spokesperson Wilson Uwujaren, the EFCC […]
Continue ReadingThe EFCC, on August 2, 2016 arrested a level six officer of the Accounts Department of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, Christy Olabode, for an alleged fraud to the tune of N100 million. Also arrested was her younger brother, Abdul-Shehu Obaze, a staff at the Commercial Department of FAAN in Ilorin, Kwara State, […]
Continue ReadingA former Minister of Finance and Director of Finance for the Goodluck Jonathan Presidential Campaign Organisation, Mrs Nenadi Usman has explained how she shared N23 billion among states in the Northeast of Nigeria. Mrs Usman told Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) detectives that former Petroleum Resources Minister Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke gave her the list of […]
Continue ReadingThe investigation of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) into the diversion funds by former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, to Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State for the prosecution of the 2014 gubernatorial election in the state, is becoming more interesting with evidences. A diamond bank official who is a […]
Continue ReadingFormer Minister of Defence (State), Musiliu Obanikoro’s head of security, Lt. commander A. O. Adewale has told the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) how his principal moved funds to Ekiti State for the June 21, 2014 governorship election. The EFCC is investigating the N1.299billion cash taken to Governor Ayodele Fayose by Obanikoro in chartered […]
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