Crime Facts

EFCC quizzes Fowler over fraud allegations against Alpha Beta

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is presently interrogating a former Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Babatunde Fowler, over the N 100 billion tax evasion allegations levelled against a tax firm , Alpha Beta Consulting . Fowler, who was also a former Chief Executive Officer , Lagos State Internal Revenue Service , responded […]

Court Dismisses Wanted Dubai-Based ‘Yahoo Boy’s’ N500m Damages, N300m Mansion Claim

A Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a N500million damages claim filed by a wanted 23-year-old Dubai-based suspected internet fraudster, Tomilola Sunday Owootomo, against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Justice Taiwo Taiwo also declined to compel the EFCC to return the title document of Owootomo’s N300million mansion at No. 4 Seychelles Street, […]

EFCC arrests nine suspected internet criminals in Abeokuta

The Ibadan zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested nine men, suspected to be internet fraudsters in Abeokuta, Ogun State. The suspects, whose ages range between 21 and 31 are Tobi Idowu; Gbeminiyi Samuel; Adekunle Gafar; Wusu Taiwo; Agbabaidan Idris; Olaiya Olamide; Adediran Rotimi; Ikegbuka Junior and Ridwan Garuba. They […]

EFCC Nab 10 Suspected Cyber Criminals In Ibadan

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested 10 suspects for alleged involvement in internet fraud. The suspects were arrested at Ajinde Road, Akala-Expressway, Ibadan in the early hours of Friday. by men of the Commission from the Ibadan Zonal Office. According to the anti-graft commission, their arrest followed credible intelligence and many weeks […]

Church Believes in Anti-graft War – Bishop Kukah

The Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Reverend Mathew Hassan Kukah has restated the Catholic Church’s support for the efforts of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) at ridding the country of corruption, economic and financial crimes. Bishop Kukah reaffirmed this on Thursday, 24 September, 2020 while playing host to the Sokoto Zonal Head of […]

Court Jails Man for N2.4m Job Scam in Maiduguri

Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri, on Thursday, September 17, 2020 convicted and sentenced one Nuhu Lawan to prison for job scam. The convict was prosecuted by the Maiduguri zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on amended one-count charge of obtaining by false pretence. The charge read, […]

Court Jails Man For ATM Fraud In Kaduna.

Justice Mohammed Tukur Muazu Aliyu of the Kaduna State High Court, on Monday, September 14, 2020 sentenced Adamu Aliyu to six months imprisonment, for fraudulently transferring N40, 000 to himself, from the account of an unsuspecting Automated Teller Machine, (ATM) user, under the false pretence of aiding the victim to effect a transfer. The convict […]

EFCC Re-arraigns ” Mama Boko Haram,’ Others For Fresh N97.4m Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Maiduguri Zonal office, on Monday, September 14, 2020, re-arraigned Aisha Alkali Wakil, a.k.a “Mama Boko Haram” before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri on three fresh separate offences of fraud to the tune of N97,400,000.00 (Ninety-Seven Million, Four Hundred Thousand Naira) only0. Each of […]

EFCC Arrest Two Lecturers, 28 Others For Internet Fraud In Kwara

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC), Ilorin zonal office, have arrested two lecturers of the Kwara State College of Health Technology, Offa: Abdulahi Opashola and Adebisi Ademola and twenty-eight others over their alleged involvement in offences bordering on internet fraud. The twenty-eight other suspects are: Kingsley Essien; Tobiloba Adenuga; Tope Ayodele; […]