The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has released two senior officials of the National Hajj Commission (NAHCON) who were part of the six officials arrested for the misappropriation of 2025 Hajj funds. They regained their freedom after refunding the funds that were misappropriated under their watch, reports Daily Independent. The...
•Nigerian pilgrims and EFCC operative Two senior officials of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) are in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged fraud linked to the 2025 Hajj exercise. Multiple sources within the EFCC, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, confirmed the arrests, reports N...
Following the arrest of 93 suspected internet fraudsters at a hotel within the precincts of Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), the Economic and Financial Commission (EFCC) will later today, Friday, August 15, 2025, arraign 23 of the suspects before Justice Deinde Dipeolu of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos. According...
The last may not have been heard about the invasion of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) as the management has handed a seven-day ultimatum to the anti-graft agency to tender an unreserved public apology for the Gestapo-like invasion of its facilities last Sunday. Whi...
•Tambuwal and EFCC operative The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has granted bail to former Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, after questioning him over alleged fraudulent cash withdrawals totalling N189bn. Tambuwal, who governed Sokoto State from 2015 to 2023, was invited to the EFCC headquarters in Abuja on Monday, arriving aro...
•EFCC chairman, Ola Olukoyede The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has stated that Nigerian politicians have devised a new means to perpetuate corruption and evade anti-graft agencies by declaring assets they are yet to acquire before assuming office. Speaking during the launch of Virtual Tool on the Code of Conduct for Public O...
•Tambuwal and EFCC operative The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of engaging in selective investigations and operating as a political tool for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The denunciation came as the Commission yesterday detained former governor of Sokoto State, ...
•EFCC operatives Panic has gripped the African Democratic Congress as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission allegedly targets key members of the 2027 coalition, who are working to unseat President Bola Tinubu at the 2027 election. This comes as the EFCC yesterday interrogated former Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, a member of the...
•Tambuwal and EFCC operative Former Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal, is in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged fraudulent cash withdrawals totalling N189 billion. The withdrawals are said to contravene the Money Laundering (Prevention & Prohibition) Act, 2022, reports Vanguard. Tambuwal rep...
•EFCC operatives The African Democratic Congress has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission of acting as a political tool for the ruling All Progressives Congress and targeting opposition figures through selective investigations. The party, in a statement today by its National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, cried out that...
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