Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, stepped down proceedings in the continuation of trial of Abdulrasheed Maina, Chairman, defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTM), over his failing health. Justice Abang said he took the decision in the order to allow Maina, who was bleeding in court, take his medication. The […]
About a week after the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) announced that it was set to embark on the second phase of its Constituency project tracking initiative through its Constituency Project Tracking Group (CPTG), the House of Representatives has said that the commission exaggerated costs of constituency projects and had been […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Sokoto Zonal office on Tuesday the conviction of one Emmanuel Adedeji Oluwatosin, whose name was on the wanted list of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, (FBI). Crimefacts.news reports that Oluwatosin was prosecuted before Justice M. S. Sifawa of the Sokoto State High court sitting in Sokoto, one […]
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) is set to begin the second phase of tracking of constituency projects, crimefacts.news can report. This follows the huge successes recorded in the first phase of the exercise carried out in 12 states of the federation. ICPC Chairman, Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, during a pre-planning retreat […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday opened its case against Abdullahi Babalele, son-in-law of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, accused of laundering $140,000 in the build-up to the 2019 general elections. The Punch reports that the trial began before Justice C.J. Aneke at the Federal High Court in Lagos with the testimony of one […]
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has started moves to recover N2.4 billion and some landed properties, alleged to have been illegally acquired and linked to a former Managing Director of the Pipelines and Product Marketing Company (PPMC), Mr. Haruna Momoh. Already, ICPC had secured an interim forfeiture order from a […]
The Enugu Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned a lawyer, Nwabufo Richard Obienu and his company, Forric Nigeria Limited before Justice B.G Diepri of a Rivers State High Court, Port-Harcourt on a three count charge bordering on conspiracy to commit felony and stealing by conversion to the tune of N200,000,000.00 […]
A civil rights activist and president, Association for Good Governance, Barr. Justice Uhuegbu has called on the federal government to quckly intervene in the alleged unbridled criminal activities of the officials of the Nigeria Police Force and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Imo State. Speaking during a press conference in Owerri on […]
Following a joint investigation by the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) and the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), no fewer than 200 bank accounts belonging to alleged corrupt public officers may be blocked by the federal government. The move was initiated following the completion of an investigation of over 200 cases […]
He is a Lebanese, resident in Lagos and steeped in money. From his $1.3million residence in Eko Atlantic Pearl Tower to his high-end automobiles, Hamza Koudeih oozes money-all of which he made doing nothing in the country but money laundering- which the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says he has done to the tune […]
