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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has summoned all 18 suspended local government area (LGA) chairpersons in Edo state following allegations of financial misconduct.   According to sources within the EFCC, the probe was triggered by a petition from Monday Okpebholo, the governor of Edo state, accusing the chairpersons of failing to pay workers’ salaries for October and November. …

The Enugu Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arraigned the duo of Ekpe Anayaoha Okoronkwo and Umeonuoha Onyinye, staff of one of the new generation banks, before Justice Mohammed Garba Umar of the Federal High Court sitting in Independence Layout, Enugu State for allegedly selling newly-minted N500, 000. 00 (Five Hundred Thousand Naira).     …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested 792 foreign nationals for their alleged involvement in cryptocurrency investment fraud and romance scams, marking the largest such operation in the commission’s history.   The commission in a statement released aid among those arrested are 148 Chinese nationals, 40 Filipinos, two Khazartans, one Pakistani, and one Indonesian. The agency said the …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has launched an investigation into allegations of abuse of office and diversion of funds at the National Sports Commission (NSC).    A letter dated November 28, signed by Farouk Dogondaji on behalf of the EFCC chairman, and addressed to the NSC’s director general, outlined the agency’s request for detailed financial records related to …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC has given reasons it did not mention the name of the top government official linked to the 753 forfeited duplexes and other properties in Abuja.   The agency had on Monday, December 2, announced that it had secured a landmark judgment for the final forfeiture of an estate in Abuja measuring 150,500 square metres …

Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie, on Monday, December 2, 2024 gave a ruling on a final forfeiture of an estate in Abuja measuring 150,500 square metres and containing 753 Units of duplexes and other apartments.      This is the single largest asset recovery by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, since its inception in 2003. The Estate rests on Plot …

Justice Alexander Owoeye of a Federal High Court in Lagos has dismissed a fundamental rights suit filed by Okuneye Idris Olanrewaju, popularly known as Bobrisky, against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).   Bobrisky had sought N200 million from the EFCC for “psychotic trauma” and demanded N1 billion from the National Assembly for the “violation of his right to …

    Former Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, has honoured the invitation of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC over alleged misappropriation of funds to the tune of N81 billion.   Yahaya Bello honoured the EFCC invitation when he went to the EFCC office with his lawyers on Tuesday afternoon, November 26. His successor, Governor Usman Ododo was …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned the Director of Human Resources Management of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Sulieman Garba Bulkwang, before Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court, Abuja for fraud.  According to a statement on EFCC’s official X page on Friday, Nov. 22, Bulkwang is being prosecuted on a five-count charge bordering on criminal …

The Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arrested one Halima Yakubu Ngulde for suspected involvement in employment fraud.   She was arrested in Unguwan Kanawa, Kaduna State, following credible intelligence linking her to obtaining money from job seekers on fraudulent promise of getting job placements for them in the Nigeria Police Force, Nigerian Army …