Anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it secured a total of 3,785 convictions across all its Commands in the country, in 2022. The figures released on the EFCC’s official website on Wednesday, January 4, shows a 70.5% improvement over its record for 2021. It also represents …
Read More »EFCC arrests 21-year-old man for duping German woman of ?17,000 after offering to help her recover ?68k from a fraudster
Operatives of the Benin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested one Irabor Kennedy Osasogie for alleged fraud. The anti-graft agency, in a statement on Friday, December 23, 2022, said Osasogie allegedly defrauded a German citizen, Antje of the sum of €17,000. “The …
Read More »2023: We Are Working With INEC To Enforce Electoral Act – EFCC
Advertisement The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has disclosed that it’s working with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to enforce the Electoral Act 2022 ahead of the 2023 general election. According to the anti-graft agency, it is collaborating with the e; electoral body and other relevant stakeholders to …
Read More »EFCC arrests two alleged land racketeers in Abuja
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested the duo of Onochie Kaykay Mokwenye and Abdullahi Adamu, alleged members of a ruthless syndicate of land racketeers terrorizing prospective property owners in Abuja. EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday, said the suspects …
Read More »EFCC secures final forfeiture of N775m properties linked to ex-Attorney General of the Federation, Jonah Otunla and others
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the final forfeiture of the sum of N775 million and three properties located in the highbrow areas of Abuja to the Federal Government. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday, November 21, secured the final forfeiture to the Federal Government. …
Read More »Osun PDP Threatens To Use EFCC To Arrest Govt Officials In Possession Of ‘Exotic’ Vehicles
Osun State government officials have been asked to return all exotic vehicles in their possession illegally with immediate effect, or risk encounters with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and officials of the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC). Naija News reports that the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic …
Read More »Court Convicts EFCC Chairman, Bawa For Contempt, Committed To Kuje Prison
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa had been convicted by a High Court sitting in Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Maitama for contempt. Bawa was convicted by the court in relation to the commission’s failure to comply with an earlier order of the court. …
Read More »EFCC releases photos of Ekweremadu’s forfeited properties
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC has released photos of some of the 40 properties Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court, Abuja, ordered former Deputy Senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, to forfeit to the Federal government. LIB had earlier reported that the antigraft agency today secured the order …
Read More »EFCC is probing Mambilla project – Minister of Power, Abubakar D. Aliyu
Minister of Power, Engr. Abubakar D. Aliyu has disclosed that the execution of Mambilla hydropower project is now being probed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Speaking during the Senate Committee on Power’s budget defence with the Ministry of Power and other agencies on Tuesday, November 1, Aliyu said the EFCC …
Read More »EFCC raids Abuja Bureaux de change offices
Some offices of black market currency dealers in Abuja was on Tuesday, November 1, 2022, raided by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, who arrested some Bureaux De Change operators. The areas raided included Zone 4 and Zone 3 of the FCT where numerous currency dealers thrive in …
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