•Embattled Emefiele The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday opposed the application of a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele for the release of his passport to enable him to make an overseas medical trip. In a statement yesterday, the agency’s spokesman Dele Oyewale said the defence counse...
•Embattled former Governor Yahaya Bello The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has asked INTERPOL in three North African countries of Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria to watch-list former Kogi State governor Yahaya Bello, it was learnt at the weekend It was further learnt that the decision by the EFCC was based on credible intelligence, ...
•Police There’s heavy security at the head office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) situated in Awolowo Road, Ikoyi area of Lagos State. The commission had raised the alarm that some groups were planning a series of protests against the EFCC, reports The Nation. Operatives of the Lagos State Anti-Crime Outfit – Rapid [&hel...
•Protest The National Orientation Agency (NOA) today, Thursday, July 4 2024 said it has mobilised no fewer than 4000 staff to track promoters of violence in the country. The agency in a statement by Paul Odenyi, deputy director of press, NOA said it has activated its civil intelligence network, ordering its 812 offices around the […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has alerted the general public on what it described as a plan by a shadowy group to instigate a protest against the Commission. The Commission in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, said the group has been actively campaigning on social media, recruiting impressionable young...
•EFCC Chairman Ola Olukoyede The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has set up a disciplinary panel to investigate two operatives accused of assaulting a woman during a raid on a hotel in Lagos on Thursday. Its spokesman, Dele Oyewale, who said this in a statement today in Abuja added that the errant officers were […]
•CCTV footage of the incident The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ola Olukoyede, in response to a viral video showing two officers manhandling a female hotel worker in Lagos, has ordered their immediate arrest and a thorough investigation into the incident. This was made known in a statement by the Head, Media [&helli...
Anti-Graft agency – the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday continued with its alleged money laundering charge preferred against Tigran Gambaryan, an executive of Binance Holdings Ltd at a Federal High Court, Abuja The criminal charge continued before Justice Emeka Nwite inspite of the withdrawal of a charge by the Federa...
•Hadi Sirika The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to arraign former Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika, before Justice Sylvanus Oriji of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Maitama tomorrow. Sirika, who served under the administration of former president Muhammadu Buhari, would be arraigned on a six-count a...
•NSCDC operatives The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is probing 10 senior officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps over an alleged N7.5bn fraud. The anti-graft agency has also invited 10 contractors linked with the alleged fraud, reports The PUNCH. The EFCC Chairman, Ola Olukoyede, had on April 26, 2024, written a let...

