The Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja has struck out an alleged ₦4.8 billion fraud charge filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), against the Chairman of Ibeto Energy Development Company, Chief Cletus Ibeto. Justice Oyindamola Ogala struck out the charge after counsel to the EFCC, Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), informed the court […]
A Federal Capital Territory High Court, on Tuesday, rejected the bail application of former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, citing procedural irregularities in the filing of the application. Justice Maryanne Anenih, while delivering the ruling, stated that the application was premature as it was filed before Bello was present in court or in custody. The […]
A high court in Maiduguri, Borno state, has sentenced Aisha Wakil, better known as Mama Boko Haram, to five years imprisonment for fraud. In a judgment delivered on Thursday, November 28, 2024, Aisha Kumaliya, the presiding judge, convicted and sentenced Wakil and two others to five years imprisonment each. Wakil, who is the Chief Executive […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has commenced an investigation into the alleged abuse of office and diversion of funds in the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). In a letter written to the National Sports Commission (NSC) dated November 28, 2024 and seen by TheCable, the anti-graft agency has asked the commission to furnish it […]
The Enugu Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, arraigned the duo of Ajim Kerison Onubuogu and Ajim Tochukwu Christian, biological brothers, for allegedly defrauding their victim, Chebet Chumba, an American the sums of Forty-Three Thousand, Eight Hundred and Fifty United States Dollars ($43, 850) and Eighteen Million, Six Hundred […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday called a witness, Abubakar Hassan, to testify in the trial of the immediate past Governor of Kwara State, Abdulfatah Ahmed. Ahmed and his then Commissioner for Finance, Ademola Banu, are currently standing trial for the alleged theft and mismanagement of Kwara State funds. Among other things, […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has defended its decision to withhold the identity of the owner of a recently recovered estate, which it described as the largest single asset recovery in its history. The EFCC had on Monday announced the recovery of 753 duplexes and other apartments on Plot 109 Cadastral Zone C09, Lokogoma […]
Former governor of Kogi state, Yahaya Bello was on Friday, brought to the Federal High Court in Abuja by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for arraignment without his lawyers in court. Bello was brought to the court by the anti-graft agency to take his plea in the 19-count charge, bordering on money laundering […]
A federal high court in Gombe has sentenced two police officers and an immigration operative to seven years in prison over N1.6 million employment fraud. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arraigned Yusuf Abdulkarim Bature and Musa Philip—the police officers—on a two-count charge of obtaining by false pretences and intent to defraud, and Nasiru […]
Ola Olukoyede, chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has announced the dismissal of two officials over alleged corruption. Speaking on Tuesday at the annual criminal law review conference organised by the Rule of Law Development Foundation in Abuja, Olukoyede said the staff were sacked two weeks ago. He said the commission is […]
