•INEC chairman, Prof. Joash Amupitan The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has given Prof. Joash Amupitan, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) seven days to urgently refer the allegations of vote buyÂing and undue influence during the just concluded governorship elections in Anambra State...
Justice Benjamin Lawan Manji of the Adamawa State High Court, Adamawa State, has convicted and sentenced the Managing Director, Bonghe Micro Finance Bank, Grace Karka, to five years imprisonment over alleged fraud. Karka was prosecuted on two-count charges bordering on criminal conspiracy and cheating to the tune of ₦32 million by the Gombe Zo...
Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has handed over properties and money recovered from a fake spiritualist and advance fee fraudster to a victim, Daniel Attiogbe, in Ibadan. Its spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, said this in a statement in Abuja today. Oyewale said the properties were recovered as proceeds of cr...
The House of Representatives today passed for second reading a bill seeking to amend the EFCC establishment act to give it more powers to carry out its task in line with current realities Leading the debate, its sponsor, Yusuf Adamu Gagdi, said the Bill seeks to strengthen the institutional Independence, operational efficiency, and accountabil...
The Metrodigital Limited, operators of SLTV, an indigenous Pay TV Company, has flayed yesterday’s raid of their head office in Port Harcourt by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) describing it as an ugly incident. Armed operatives of EFCC ransacked the office of Metrodigital and arrested two employees of the comp...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has launched an investigation into two travellers found in possession of undeclared foreign currencies totalling over $6,180 and £53,415 at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Terminal 2 in Lagos. EFCC disclosed this yesterday, in a statement signed by Head of Media & Publicity, D...
•Fred Ajudua Lagos businessman and alleged fraudster, Fred Ajudua, has again approached the Special Offences Division of the State High Court in Ikeja to request for bail. Ajudua who came to court yesterday in a white native attire and holding a walking stick told the court through his counsel, Olalekan Ojo (SAN), that he had […]
•Emefiele The trial of the former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, on allegations of fraud suffered a major setback following a clash between parties over the forensic examination of a mobile phone and WhatsApp chats, submitted as evidence in his trial. At the resumed hearing of the case before Justice Rahman Oshodi [&h...
•Tinubu and Mele Kyari President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has come under pressure to prove his anti-corruption credentials as more than 500 lawyers, professionals and civil rights activists marched to the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja yesterday. The demonstrators called for action on the $4 billion refin...
•EFCC chairman, Olanipekun Olukoyede The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has warned that the surge in internet fraud cases is worsening visa restrictions for innocent Nigerians seeking to travel abroad. EFCC Chairman, Olanipekun Olukoyede, said the menace not only jeopardises the future of perpetrators but also damages Nigeria’...

