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Kwara State High Court has sentenced a 45-year-old driver, Adetunji Tunde Oluwasegun to two years imprisonment for spending a sum N2million that was erroneously transferred into his account. The Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and…
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On Wednesday , January 20, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) opened its case in the ongoing trial of Babachir Lawal, a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation and five others when it presented its first…
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Two internet fraudsters popularly known as Yahoo boys have been sentenced to jail in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. The duo of Tobiloba Stephen Shokunbi and Emmanuel Korede Oladunjoye was sentenced Tuesday by Justice Ibrahim Watilat…
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Aisha Alkali Wakili popularly known as Mama Boko Haram has been arraigned by the Maiduguri Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged fresh fraud. WITHIN NIGERIA learnt that Wakili was arraigned on…
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Saturday distanced itself from rumour making the rounds that the commission is recruiting. In a statement obtained from its facebook handle, EFCC, said that it “wishes to alert the…
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10 people have been arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Lagos Zonal Office over their alleged involvement in computer-related fraud. The suspects were identified as Jonathan Daniel Adebayo, Lawal…
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The Commissioner for Environment in Cross River State, Mfon Bassey, has been interrogated by the anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Mr Bassey was said to have been picked up from his residence in…
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has warned Nigerians against the sale of their National Identity Number (NIN) for monetary benefits. WITHIN NIGERIA reports that there has been a surge in the number of Nigerians…
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A former Managing Director of Finbank Plc has been sentenced and convicted to three years imprisonment over N10bn fraud by Justice Lateefa A. Okunnu of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, on Tuesday, January 5, 2021. The…
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The acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mohammed Abba has revealed the achievements of the agency in the last one year. The acting EFCC chair disclosed that the anti-graft agency secured 865 convictions from…
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Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) Lagos zone have arrested 21 suspects for allegedly being involved in internet-related fraud. The suspects are also said to be members of an organized cybercrime syndicate.…
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President Muhammadu Buhari has been called upon by a militant group, the 21st Century Youths of the Niger Delta and Agitators with Conscience (21st CYNDAC) to intervene over Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) refusal to vacate…
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday secured the conviction of Iweregbu Daniel Chima. Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Special Offences Court in Lagos, sentenced Chima to 18 months in prison. The convict…
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Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal Office, have arrested 32 persons for their alleged involvement in computer-related fraud. The suspects are: Anthony Nicholas, Obabire Adebayo, Nwosu Ebuka,…
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has announced that the judgement quashing the conviction of Mr Olisa Metuh and his company, Destra Investment Limited at the supreme court will be appealed. This was contained in a…
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The Alumni association of Yerwa Practicing Primary School (YPPS) has stated that the suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu is innocent of all the allegations labelled against him.…
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Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Port Harcourt Zonal Office, have arrested an undergraduate: Nnamdi Henry Chimezulem a.k.a. Dessey Marvel, for running a phony investment scheme and in the process, defrauding…
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The trial of a self-styled herbalist, Alfa Jamiu Isiaka, who allegedly impersonated the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina and a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum…
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Former attorney-general of the federation (AGF), Mohammed Adoke has been granted the permission to travel to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for medical examination by a federal high court in Abuja. Recall that the former AGF through his…
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