•Embattled former governor El-Rufai A forensic investigator with the Department of State Services (DSS), Segun Kayode, yesterday alleged that former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai and some of his associates earmarked $600,000 to pay officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and intermediaries. Kayode, the first pro...
•The victims now freed A Federal High Court in Abuja heard today that international terrorist organisation Al-Qaeda supported members of the proscribed terrorist group Jama’atu Ansarul Muslimina fi-Biladis Sudan (ANSARU) to stage the May 15 attacks on schools in Oriire Local Government, Oyo State. The attack, the court also heard, was to force...
•Gunmen A witness of the Department of State Service in the ongoing trial of alleged Ansaru terror group members today told the Federal High Court in Abuja, that their abductors left them to starve during the ordeal. The witness code-named AAA who was one of the victims of the Orire school abduction in Oyo State […]
•Abubakar Malami Munawwarah Salisu Anas, the 5th prosecution witness (PW5) in the ongoing trial of a former Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of Federation, Abubakar Malami, yesterday , detailed how several high-value transactions passed through the account of Alkausar Farm. Anas, a Compliance Officer with Jaiz Bank Plc, who gave the de...
•Nasir El-Rufai and Nuhu Ribadu The trial of former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, over allegations of treason and breach of national security continued today at the Federal High Court in Abuja, with the prosecution presenting evidence to support claims that he received an intercepted private conversation involving the National Securit...
•Emefiele and EFCC logo A witness, Chinedu Emere told an Abuja High Court that the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele, complied with late President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive that the redesigned Naira be produced locally. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, charged Emefiele with illegal act c...
A survivor of the June 5, 2022, attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State, has given a harrowing account of how she narrowly escaped death after an explosive device was detonated beside her during the Sunday Mass. Testifying as the third prosecution witness, using the pseudonym SSC, a student from Achara, Anambra State, […]
•Former Governor Yahaya Bello and EFCC office The fourth prosecution witness in the ongoing alleged money laundering trial of the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, has refuted, strongly, claims by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s lawyer that he was harassed by security aides of the former governor. Mshelia Arhyel Bata, a com...
•Embattled IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu in court The second prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of Nnamdi Kanu has told Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court in Abuja that the Eastern Security Network (ESN), established by Kanu, is an illegal group, unlike Amotekun, which is backed by law. Testifying under the codename “BBB”, [&hel...
•EFCC operatives A prosecution witness has told a Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, how the former Acting Accountant General of the Federation, Chukwunyere Nwabuoku, allegedly diverted over N868 million from the Federal Ministry of Defence using cash withdrawals and multiple company accounts. The witness, an investigator with the I...

