•The EFCC notice on Sadiya Umar Farouq The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has declared former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Sadiya Umar Farouq, wanted over alleged criminal conspiracy, abuse of office, and diversion of public funds. The anti-graft agency posted the wanted notice on its website today. According to the EFCC notice,...
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has raised concern over a prevailing financial impropriety in Nigerian universities, already placing several tertiary institutions’ top management under criminal investigation. The anti-graft agency also lamented that about six out of every 10 students in Nigerian universities are involved in cyb...
A 51-year-old father of ten, Akilu Salisu, has been taken into custody alongside a self-proclaimed cleric, Umar Mikailu Shuaibu, and Salisu Nura by the Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over their alleged involvement in the circulation of counterfeit foreign currencies, including United States Doll...
•Malami Former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of resorting to self-help by sealing his Abuja residence without due process. Speaking in Abuja today, Malami claimed that armed operatives of the commission stormed his home in Maitama and...
•Former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, aides and supporters outside his house shortly after it was marked for seizure by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja yesterday. Officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday sealed the reside...
•Godwin Emefiele and EFCC logo Abuja High Court, yesterday, fined the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) N500,000 for repeatedly seeking adjournments in the ongoing trial of former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele. The trial judge, Justice Hamza Muazu, imposed the fine after the prosecution failed to produce...
No fewer than 100 lawyers are currently under the radar of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). This revelation coincided with the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) imposing sanctions on 17 others for various acts of professional misconduct, reports Vanguard. Established under the Legal Practitioners Act, the LP...
•The Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and the Creative Arts in Iganmu, Lagos (formerly National Theater) As part of efforts to combat corruption and recover misappropriated public funds, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has handed over the sum of ₦279 million to the Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and the Creative Arts, forme...
•Yahaya Bello and EFCC logo The immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, who is answering to a 19-count money laundering charge, today, challenged the admissibility of a fresh evidence the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) sought to tender against him. The anti-graft agency had, at the resumed proceedings of th...
Concerned members of Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees in Lagos have called on the union’s national leadership to take action following a probe by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). In a letter of February 19 to the president general in Abuja, the group urged the national body to comply with Rule 27(ii) of […]
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