By Wilson UWUJAREN, Head Media and Publicity EFCC Abuja/ PORTHARCOURT-Justice P. I. Ajoku of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Wednesday February 1, 2023 remanded a Director of a Nigerian Gas Company, Charles Rudolf Epelle in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, ... Read More »
By Wilson UWUJAREN, Head Media and Publicity EFCC Abuja/ ABUJA-JUSTICE Chukujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Wednesday, February 1, 2023, adjourned further hearing in the trial of a former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, and his company, Spotless Investment Limited, over an alleged ... Read More »
By Wilson UWUJAREN, Head Media and Publicity EFCC Abuja/ ABUJA-THE Court of Appeal, Abuja, has set aside the judgment of a lower court barring the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, from initiating either civil or criminal proceedings against former Accountant General of the Federation , AG-F, Jonah Oguniyi Otunla. ... Read More »
By Wilson UWUJAREN, Head Media and Publicity EFCC Abuja/ ABUJA– THE first prosecution witness, PW1, Olusegun Falola, in the ongoing trial of Ismaila Yousouf Atumeyi, a Kogi State House of Assembly candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, and two others, on Monday, January 31, 2023, told Justice Tijani Ringim ... Read More »
By Wilson UWUJAREN, Head Media and Publicity EFCC Abuja/ ABUJA-THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and the Office of the Auditor General of the Federation, OAuGF, are to intensify cooperation in the fight against economic and financial crimes, including corruption. This commitment was among the highlights of discussion today, ... Read More »
By Wilson UWUJAREN, Head, Media and Publicity, EFCC Abuja/ ABUJA-THE Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa today presented Nigeria’s statement at the ongoing first ministerial meeting of Anti-corruption and Law Enforcement Authorities of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, OIC, to endorse the Makkah Al- Mukarramah ... Read More »
By Mary BASSEY, Senior Investigator Correspondent, Lagos/ LAGOS- RESPECTED constitutional lawyer and former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Dr, Olisa Agbokoba SAN, has taken the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC to the carpets describing most of their activities as outside the purview of the laws. The erudite lawyer ... Read More »
Wilson UWUJAREN, Head Media and Publicity EFCC Abuja/ ABUJA– DOYIN Okupe, former senior special assistant on public affairs to Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, and chieftain of the Labour party is to spend two years in prison following his conviction today, December 19, 2022 by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High ... Read More »
By Robert AKPAN, Senior Investigator Correspondent Lagos/ LAGOS– INDICATIONS have emerged why the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC summersaulted and Withdrew the N20 billion Bailout fund case against the Kogi State Government said to be stached in a Sterling Bank fixed depositaccount. A recent documents obtained by Freedom Online ... Read More »
By Emma OBIAMIWE, Investigator Correspondent, Asaba/ ASABA- COMMISSIONER of Police Delta State Police Command, CP Muhammed Ari Ali has given a blow by blow account on how his men were able to track and arrest persons who had operated in the state as officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes ... Read More »
