The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has asked the Presidency, the Federal Judicial Commission, and other Ministries, Departments and Agencies, to submit their anti-corruption strategies, as part of the agency’s efforts to stop the abuse of contracts. All the MDAs have until March 1 to submit their strategies to the anti-graft agency, ...
•Journalist outside the court premises The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned former governor of Kwara State Abdulfattah Ahmed at Federal High Court Ilorin. However, journalists were barred from covering the arraignment of the former governor as they were denied entry into the court, reports Channels TV. Speaking wit...
The naira gained marginally against the United States dollar at the Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange Market on Tuesday, closing at N1,542.58/$ from N1,551/$ recorded on Tuesday. The rate represents a 2.9 per cent appreciation from the N1,598.54 traded on Monday and a meagre 0.58 per cent against Tuesday’s rate, reports The PUNCH. According...
•Protesters at EFCC office in Ilorin today Members of the Kwara State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), today, stormed the office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Ilorin, the state capital, to protest the continued detention of former Governor Abdulfattah Ahmed. The placard-carrying protesters chanted song...
•Ex-Kwara governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to arraign former Kwara State Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed. It is in connection with an alleged diversion of over N10billion, reports The Nation. Ahmed yesterday honoured the anti-graft agency’s invitation at the Ilorin zonal office following which he ...
Men suspected to be operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission were said to have carried out a midnight operation at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State. Students’ lodges were reportedly invaded at about 2am, reports The PUNCH. Some students have taken to social media, sharing videos and alleging that the me...
•Agunloye with EFCC logo Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie of a Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Apo, Abuja, has declined to hear the preliminary objection by the Former Minister of power, Mister Olu Agunloye, challenging the power of the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to prosecute him on the alleged $6bn Mambilla Hydroelect...
•Former CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has declared Margaret Emefiele, wife of a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, and three others, wanted for money laundering. Mrs Emefiele, Mr Eric Odoh, Anita Omoile and her husband, Jonathan Omoile, were declared wanted last night f...
•Former Gov Yahaya Bello The Kogi State Government has raised the alarm over what it described as a desperate attempt by “criminals masquerading as politicians” to tarnish the image of the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, HE Yahaya Bello, for selfish reasons, through the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. A swift statement signed ...
•Ahmed Idris The former Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, has accused the Economic and Financial Crime Commission of deceiving him to admit to the allegations against him. The ex-AGF claimed that the EFCC told him they wanted to use him to get the minister of finance and some other governors. Idris and his […]

