•Sadiya Umar-Farouq After facing a 12-hour marathon interrogation by anti-graft operatives, ex-minister Sadiya Umar-Farouq returned home last night and is expected to resume today at the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Abuja. The former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development is facing pro...
•EFCC operatives The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has invited the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, to its headquarters located in Jabi area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The invitation came less than 30 minutes the President, Bola Tinubu announced Edu’s immediate suspension from...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has observed that the N44 billion National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA) fraud and the N585.2 million allegedly diverted to a private account under the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs is just a tip of the iceberg of “the unprecedented treasury looting, unbridled stealing and plundering of resour...
•Sadiya Umar-Farouq Citing health challenges, the former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq has officially written to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission seeking an extension of the deadline to meet with EFCC interrogators over an ongoing probe into the N37,170,855,753.44 ...
•Buhari Sadiya Umar-Farouk, the former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, is expected to be interrogated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) about an alleged N37.1 billion fraud. A top EFCC source confirmed this to our correspondent in a telephone conversation today, Wednesday, Jan...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a contractor, James Okwete, in connection with the ongoing probe into the N37bn allegedly laundered by the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development under former Minister, Sadiya Umar-Farouk. A top EFCC official, who confided in our correspondent yest...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has uncovered a total sum of N37,170,855,753.44 allegedly laundered in the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs under former minister Sadiya Umar-Farouk. Details of the ongoing probe exclusively obtained by this paper revealed that the money was transferred from the federal government’s coffers and sent...
•Adepoju The Controller General of Immigration (CGI), Caroline Wura-Ola Adepoju, has warned that if the practice of bringing in and employing foreign prisoners in foreign-owned companies operating in Nigeria was permitted in the past, it would no longer happen under her watch. She handed down the warning at a press conference at the Immigratio...
The Ibadan Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned eleven students of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) before Justice Nathaniel Ayo-Emmanuel of the Federal High Court, Osogbo, Osun State for their alleged involvement in internet fraud. In a release signed by the head media and publicity EFCC, Dele Oye...
•Cletus Ibeto The Chairman/CEO of Ibeto Energy Development Company, Cletus Ibeto, will be arraigned tomorrow before the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over an alleged N4.8 billion fraud. Trial judge, Justice Ismail Ijelu, fixed the date following the failure of the businessman to ...
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