Trouble appears to be looming for the outgoing Governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, as the nation’s anti-graft agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, has placed him on its watch-list. Although the EFCC has not formally preferred any charge against Obiano since he is still enjoying immunity from prosecution as a sitting governor in Nigeria, […]
Former Aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has denied being arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). There was media report that the former minister who recently decamped to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, was picked up by the anti graft commission for forgery and money laundry. But Chief Fani-Kayode in a Facebook post […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is currently interrogating a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode. Officials of the anti-graft agency confirmed this to Channels Television on Monday in Lagos. The former minister was invited to answer questions relating to the forgery of a medical report which he allegedly procured to evade his trial […]
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arraigned the Chairman of Gwagwalada Area Council, Adamu Danze, for allegedly receiving N10 million kickback from a contractor handling construction projects in the area council. Danze was arraigned by the Commission before Justice U. P. Kekemeke of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court […]
The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday re-arraigned Ope Saraki, a cousin to former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, and a former Commissioner for Information in Kwara State, Olatunji Moronfoye, for abuse of office, diversion of public funds and money laundering. The duo was re-arraigned on separate charges before […]
The arraignment of a former Minister of Aviation, Senator Stella Oduah, before Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court Abuja, has been stalled. Oduah, now a Senator representing Anambra North Senatorial district in the Senate, was to be arraigned on a 25-count charge, along with 8 other defendants, all of who were present in […]
Some of the ships seized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have begun to sink in waters across the country, while many of those temporarily and permanently forfeited by suspected corrupt persons are being damaged due to lack of maintenance, The PUNCH has reliably learnt. Sources in the know of the development at the […]
A Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a suit challenging the appointment of some groups to monitor the deployment of the $300million recovered Abacha loot. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgment on Friday, upheld the preliminary objection raised by the defendants and found that the suit was statue barred. Justice Ekwo also found that […]
Malam Ibrahim Shekarau has mocked Governor Abdullahi Ganduje over some controversial videos which showed the governor allegedly stuffing dollars in his pocket. The governor has severally denied being the one in the video, filing several suits to clear his name. But while addressing his supporters at his residence in Kano, Shekarau, a former governor of […]
The Federal Government has given an insight into how preventive measures adopted to check corruption and manage recovered stolen assets had brought about the repatriation of some stolen funds stashed away overseas. Such funds included the $322.515 million in Switzerland, $311.7 million in the United States, €5.4 million Euros in Northern Ireland, €4,214,017.66 in the […]
