The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested Abdulaziz Yari, former governor of Zamfara state. A senior official of the commission confirmed the development to TheCable on Sunday. The former governor was arrested over alleged fraud relating to the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P). A N20 billion “SURE-P refund” was allegedly cooked […]
Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, on Sunday, faulted the process that produced former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar as the 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party. HURIWA, in a statement by its National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, alleged that Atiku’s emergence was heavily compromised by undue monetisation, adding that the […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has declared the Rivers State Accountant-General, Fubara Siminayi, and 58 others wanted for N435 billion fraud. Siminayi, and four other Rivers State government officials, among others, are wanted for suspected N117 billion fraud, alleged criminal conspiracy, money laundering, misappropriation of public funds, and abuse of office, according […]
After hours of siege to his Maitama residence in Abuja, earlier on Tuesday, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, finally arrested former Governor Rochas Okorocha. Vanguard gathered that the embattled ex-Imo governor Rochas Okorocha was whisked away by EFCC operatives, who shot sporadically to disperse a crowd of supporters who had come to […]
Security operatives at the residence of Rochas Okorocha are currently shooting to disperse the crowd at the residence of Rochas Okorocha, senator representing Imo west. Earlier on Tuesday, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had invaded the residence of the senator to arrest him. Okorocha, former governor of Imo, had, however, declined to […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said that its operatives laid siege to the residence of former Imo Governor Senator Rochas Okorocha because of his refusal to honour the commission’s invitations. It said Okorocha jumped administrative bail granted him by EFCC. It also alleged that attempts to arraign Senator Okorocha were stalled twice […]
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has on Tuesday stormed the residence of former Governor of Imo state, Rochas Okorocha. The operatives stormed the Maitama residence of the former Governor located in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Okorocha, a presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was […]
The Office of the Auditor General for the Federation has queried the management of the Ogun-Osun River Basin Development Authority for selling off government plant, property and equipment valued at over N2bn at a paltry sum of N13.618m. The House of Representatives’ Committee on Public Accounts has consequently summoned the Minister of Water Resources […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has released the Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mrs Patricia Etteh, who it arrested over an allegation of fraud. Spokesperson of the EFCC, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, announced her release in a statement on Saturday. Mrs Etteh was released on Friday, three days after her arrest, […]
The Minister of Police Affairs, Mohammed Maigari Dingyadi, says a former acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Commission, Ibrahim Magu, can still face prosecution if indicted by the report submitted by the Justice Ayo Salami-led investigative panel. He spoke yesterday at the weekly ministerial briefing organised by the Presidential Communication Team at the […]
