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PHOTO: EFCC arrests female banker in Sokoto

Chocomilo Dec 7, 2019 0

A female banker has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Sokoto Zonal Office for allegedly obtaining money under false pretenses. WITHIN NIGERIA learnt that the female banker identified as Amina Kabo popularly known as (Firdausi Kabo) is the promoter of Olive Micro Finance Bank located at No. 26 Dubabe Plaza in…

EFCC arraigns ‘Mama Boko Haram’ in Maiduguri over alleged N66m fraud

Chocomilo Dec 4, 2019 0

Two people have been arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday, December 4th over alleged conspiracy and N66 million fraud. The suspects identified as Tahiru Saidu Daura and Aisha Alkali Wakil were…

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27 Yahoo Boys captured by EFCC while hiding inside hotel

Ngere Ify Davies Dec 4, 2019 0

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibadan zonal office, on Wednesday raided a Lagos hotel believed to be a hideout for internet fraudsters and arrested suspected internet fraud kingpin and 26 others. The target…

National

Court Dismisses Suit Seeking Removal Of Magu As EFCC Chairman

Adejayan Gbenga Gsong Dec 4, 2019 0

The Federal High Court in Abuja Wednesday dismissed suits seeking the removal of Ibrahim Magu as the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The plaintiffs had sought Magu’s removal on the grounds that the Senate…

Metro

Court gives directors of Ponzi scheme fine option, Victims of Ponzi scheme protest

Chocomilo Dec 4, 2019 0

Days after Justice M.L Abubakar of the Federal High Court, Awka, Anambra State sentenced two brothers to one year imprisonment with an option of 1million fine, victims of a Ponzi scheme executed by the two brothers have expressed their…

Metro

EFCC arrests Ex-Kwara council lawmaker who leads a car theft gang

Chocomilo Dec 4, 2019 0

A former councillor in Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for alleged involvement in car theft. The suspect identified as Samuel Opeyemi Adeojo was…

Metro

Former Vice Chancellor of University of Agriculture Makurdi arraigned for N70m fraud

Chocomilo Dec 4, 2019 0

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned the former vice-chancellor of University of Agriculture, Makurdi before a Federal High Court sitting in Makurdi over alleged N70 million fraud. The University Don…

Metro

Court sentences 22-year-old man to 2 years imprisonment over fraud

Chocomilo Dec 4, 2019 0

A 22-year-old suspected fraudster identified as Damilola Adeyemo has been sentenced to 2 years imprisonment by Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon of the Federal High Court sitting in Makurdi. Adeyemo was arraigned by the Economic and Financial…

Metro

Saraki reacts on the forfeiture of his two houses, says it is an abuse of court process

Chocomilo Dec 3, 2019 0

Hours after a federal high court sitting in Lagos granted the anti-graft agency an order to seizes two houses of Bukola Saraki in Ilorin, capital of Kwara State, the former Senate President has described the development as an abuse of the…

Metro

5 days after alarm, Court orders forfeiture of two Saraki’s houses

Chocomilo Dec 2, 2019 0

Two houses of the former senate president of Nigeria, Dr. Bukola Saraki in Ilorin, the capital of Kwara state have been forfeited owing to an order given by a federal high court in Lagos. The forfeiture order was given by Justice Rilwan…

Metro

After 15 months in detention, EFCC charges Naval Chief Labinjo to court

Chocomilo Dec 2, 2019 0

15 months after arrest, a Naval Chief, Captain Dada Labinjo who had been in detention without trial was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) before a Federal High Court. WITHIN NIGERIA learnt that Labinjo has…

Metro

EFCC seizes Onyema’s passport over indictment for fraud in US

Chocomilo Dec 2, 2019 0

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has seized the passport of the embattled chief executive officer of Air Peace, Allen Onyema. This seizure comes afrer the CEO of Air Peace was indicted for bank fraud and laundering…

National

You can’t stop EFCC from investigating you – Court tells El-Rufai

Adejayan Gbenga Gsong Nov 29, 2019 0

The Federal High Court, Abuja, says Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, cannot stop the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from investigating him. Justice Binta Nyako said this while delivering the judgment, on Friday, in…

Metro

Court sentences unlicensed petroleum dealer to 7-years imprisonment

Chocomilo Nov 29, 2019 0

A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has sentenced an unlicensed petroleum product dealer to 7-year jail sentence for defrauding a customer N10million (Ten Million Naira). The suspect identified as Johnson Abraham Ukiwe was…

National

Trial on alleged N6.9bn fraud charges against Fayose stalled

Adejayan Gbenga Gsong Nov 28, 2019 0

Trial on the alleged N6.9 billion fraud against former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose at the Federal High Court, Lagos, was on Thursday stalled following absence of the trial judge, Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke. News Agency of Nigeria…

National

EFCC questions 23 officials of Kaduna local government areas

Adejayan Gbenga Gsong Nov 28, 2019 0

Top officials of the 23 local government areas in Kaduna state northwest Nigeria have been invited by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFFC, for questioning. In a letter addressed to the secretary to the state government,…

Metro

EFCC arraigns fake ‘Ibrahim Magu’ over alleged bribe demand in Port Harcourt

Adejayan Gbenga Gsong Nov 27, 2019 0

The Port Harcourt’s Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday arraigned a fake ‘Ibrahim Magu’ said to be using the name of the EFCC boss to harass and blackmail senior officials of the Niger Delta…

National

EFCC denies dropping charges against Diezani

Adejayan Gbenga Gsong Nov 27, 2019 0

Nigeria’s anti-fraud office on Wednesday denied dropping graft charges against former minister of petroleum resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke. During the week, several media outlets reported that the Economic and Financial Crimes…

Metro

$1m scam: Kirikiri Prison Boss and Doctor arrested

Adejayan Gbenga Gsong Nov 26, 2019 0

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday said it has arrested the Controller of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) Kirikiri Emmanuel Oluwaniyi and medical doctor Hemesin Edwin, a Deputy Controller (DC) for their…

National

JUST IN: Court grants Maina’s son bail

Adejayan Gbenga Gsong Nov 26, 2019 0

The Federal High Court, on Tuesday, admitted Faisal Maina, son of Abdulrasheed Maina, ex-pension reform boss, to bail in the sum of N60 million. NAN reports that Justice Okon Abang, who gave the ruling, also said the defendant should…

Metro

EFCC arraigns Kolade Phillip, Mompha’s second accomplice in internet scam trial

Chocomilo Nov 26, 2019 0

Popular Hamza Koudeih and a second associate of Ismaila Mustapha known as Mompha were arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday, November 25. Recall that Popular Hamza Koudeih was arrested in a high brow…

National

Court stops EFCC’s planned prosecution of ex -Customs boss, Dikko

Adejayan Gbenga Gsong Nov 25, 2019 0

A Federal High Court in Abuja has stopped the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from prosecuting a former Comptroller General of Customs (CGC), Abudullahi Inde Dikko for alleged financial infraction while in office. Justice…

National

Alleged N1.23b fraud: Iwu’s trial adjourned for 94 days

Adejayan Gbenga Gsong Nov 25, 2019 0

The fraud trial of former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Maurice Iwu, failed to go on at the Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday following the judge’s absence. Justice Nicholas Oweibo was said to…

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Alleged Fraud: Mompha Remanded In Prison Custody

Ngere Ify Davies Nov 25, 2019 0

Suspected Internet fraudster, Ismaila Mustapha, popularly known as Mompha, has pleaded not guilty to a N33 billion money laundering charge levelled against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He was arraigned by…

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Breaking: EFCC arraigns suspected Internet fraudster, Mompha

Ngere Ify Davies Nov 25, 2019 0

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned suspected internet fraudster, Ismaila Mustapha, alias Mompha. Mompha was arraigned at the Federal High Court, Lagos on Monday. He was charged with 14 counts bordering on…

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Mompha drags EFCC to court, demands N5m for unlawful detention

Adebiyi Chioma Nov 21, 2019 0

Embattled social media celebrity, Mompha, has slammed a fundamental rights enforcement suit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, for unlawful detention and a violation of his rights. Recall that Mompha was arrested by…

Metro

EFCC files fresh corruption and contract racketeering charges against Abdulrasheed Maina

Chocomilo Nov 21, 2019 0

The former PENSION Boss, Abdulrasheed Maina has been arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a fresh charge of contract racketeering and stealing on Wednesday, November 20th. Maina was arraigned before Justice…

National

Sagay reveals those questioning Buhari govt’s anti-corruption war

Adejayan Gbenga Gsong Nov 20, 2019 0

The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) , Prof. Itse Sagay, SAN, says only corrupt elites see no positive difference in the President Muhammadu Buhari-led anti-corruption war. Sagay made the…

National

Presidential team recommends Magu to Buhari for confirmation as EFCC chairman

Adejayan Gbenga Gsong Nov 20, 2019 0

The Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) has made a case for the appointment of the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, as the substantive chairman of the commission.…

Metro

Photo: Ex-banker Rowley Isioro and wife jailed for money laundering in Lagos

Chocomilo Nov 20, 2019 0

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned a couple on Tuesday, November 18th for money laundering offences. The couple identified as Ovuomarhoni Naomi Isioro and her husband, Rowley Isioro, a former Assistant…

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