Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

N2bn Fraud: EFCC Tenders Documents Against Ex-Niger Gov, Aliyu

The trial of a former governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu, on an eight-count charge of money laundering to the tune of N2billion continued on February 21, 2018, before Justice Yalim Suleiman Bogoro of the Federal High Court, sitting in Minna, Niger State, with prosecution tendering documents to establish the complicity of the defendant in the alleged offence. Nma Abubakar Mohammed, a branch head of Zenith Bank situated at Paiko Road, Minna 1, Niger State, who testified as PW3, told the court that the defendant made withdrawals of 10million naira each in eighty places using the account of