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The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, March 18, 2024 secured the conviction of six persons charged for offences bordering on cybercrime and fraud related offences The convicts who were prosecuted on separate charges stood their trial before Justice Evelyn Anyadike of the Federal High Court and Justice…
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr Ola Olukoyede, says in less than 100 days of his assumption of office, the anti-graft agency received over 5,000 fraud petitions and recovered N60bn loot. Of the 5,000 petitions, he said the EFCC had approved 3,000 for investigation. President Bola Tinubu appointed Olukoyede EFCC chairman…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission , EFCC, has finally prepared a 12 count charge against the former governor Abdulfatah Ahmed. According to reliable sources, the former governor will be arraigned at the Federal High Court in Ilorin tomorrow by 10 am. As at press time, full details of the charges are not available to…
The fraud and sleaze rocking the Ministry of Humanitarian and Social Inclusion has taken another dimension as operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) investigating the sleaze have reportedly uncovered a fresh fraud of N17bn linked to the ministry. A source confirmed on Saturday in Abuja that the EFCC officials, who were originally…
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Operatives of the Benin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested fourteen undergraduates of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State. They were arrested alongside nineteen( 19) others in the early hours of Wednesday, February 14, 2024, for suspected internet crimes. The suspects were arrested at different residential locations within the Akure…
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared the wife of a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Margaret Emefiele, wanted for alleged fraud. Also wanted by the anti-corruption agency are Mrs Omoile’s cousin, Jonathan Omoile, his wife, Anita Omoile, and one other person who appears to be a CBN official,…
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Fresh reports have revealed more details on the criminal activities of the General Overseer of Faith On The Rock Ministry International, Apostle Theophilus Oloche Ebonyi. The clergyman was earlier apprehended by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Ebonyi was arrested for allegedly defrauding his church members and other Nigerians using claims of fake grants…
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has charged former Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello with corruption, a few days after he completed his tenure in office and was stripped of his constitutional immunity shielding him from criminal prosecution. Yahaya Bello handed over to his successor, Usman Ododo, after eight years in office on 27…
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The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ola Olukoyede, has revealed that the anti-graft agency has uncovered a religious sect in Nigeria laundering money for terrorists. Olukoyede revealed that another religious body was found to be protecting a money launderer after some money suspected to have been laundered was traced to the organisation’s…
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Femi Gbajabiamila, the Chief of Staff to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has been enmeshed in a corruption scandal. Gbajabiamila was allegedly fingered as one of the beneficiaries of the largesse of corruption uncovered under the Chief Executive Officer of the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), Ahmed Kuru, and the former Governor of the Central…
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