EFCC Tasks CAC on Proxy Companies
The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has stressed the need for the Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC, to cooperate with the anti-corruption agency in the fight against corruption, especially in its investigations of companies in…
Three Lawyers in EFCC Net for Property Theft
The Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has arrested three lawyers for alleged illegal acquisition and sale of a property, belonging to Mr Adetunji Adedoyin, valued at about N20 million, (Twenty Million Naira). The accused lawyers are: Salm…
Ibadan Radio Station Pledges Support For Anti-Corruption Campaign
An Ibadan-based popular radio station, Fresh 105.9 FM, has promised to collaborate with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in its campaign against graft and other forms of corruption. The Station’s Head of Operations, Abolade Salami, made the pledge on Wednesday,…
EFCC Gathering Intel On Nigerians Indicted In US – Magu...Records 111 Internet fraud convictions in South West
The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has disclosed that the agency is collating comprehensive data on Nigerians indicted in the recently busted money laundering and cyber crime offences in the United States. 80 suspects, most of…
Do Not Be Used As Conduits To Divert Public Funds-Magu Charges Corps Members
The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has called on members of the National Youth Service Corps to refuse to be used as conduits in diverting public funds in their respective places of primary assignment. Magu gave this charge on…
EFCC Committed To Taking Anti-Corruption Campaign To Grassroots - Magu
The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has reiterated the readiness of the Commission to take its anti-corruption campaign to all nooks and cranny of Nigeria. This, according to him, would afford the Commission to awake all Nigeri…
328 EFCC Detective Cadets Graduate from NDA August 31
Three hundred and twenty-eight (328) new anti-graft detectives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will on Saturday, August 31, 2019 graduate from the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA). The graduation which will feature a colourful passing out parade at NDA Parade…
Hold Your Leaders Accountable, Magu Charges Corps Members
The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Ibrahim Magu, has urged Nigerian youths to hold their leaders accountable for misuse of the nation’s resources by joining in the fight against corruption. Magu gave the charge at the National Youth Serv…
Internet Fraud: $314,000, N373m Recovered Through EFCC-FBI Collaboration-Magu
The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has disclosed that the collaboration between the Commission and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, has led to the recovery of the sums of $314,000( Three Hundred and Fourteen Thousand…
Magu Urges Nigerians to take Ownership of Anti-corruption Fight
The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu has urged Nigerians to take ownership of the anti-corruption fight, stating that the fight would yield better results when Nigerians see it their own. He observed that no community, society or…
EFCC Docks Two For N15.1m Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal office, on Monday, August 26, 2019, arraigned the duo of Salisu Dashiru Saliu and Chinedu Israel Ekezie before Justice Hakeem Oshodi of the State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on a two-count charge bordering on…
Abba Kyari Did Not Influence Oyo-Ita's Investigation-EFCC
The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been drawn to reports by a section of the media, insinuating that the ongoing investigation of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs Winifred Oyo-Ita by the Commission was instigated by the Ch…
EFCC Arrests Kwara Govt Official, Grills Navy Cmdr over Illegal Acquisition of Public Properties
The Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC), on Monday, August 26, 2019 arrested the Executive Director of Kwara State Harmony Holdings, Adebayo Sanni and quizzed Navy Commandore J.A Taiwo (retd), over their alleged involvement in fraudulent ac…
Eschew Internet Fraud, Magu Charges Youths
As part of efforts to catch them young and nip economic and financial crimes in the bud, the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu on Saturday August 24, 2019 admonished children and youths to shun internet fraud and cybercrimes. The…
EFCC Arrests Kwara TV GM, Three Others Over Land Fraud
The General Manager, Kwara State Television Authority, Alhaji Abdulfatai Adewale Adebowale has been arrested by the Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC) over allegations of Land fraud. Adebowale was arrested alongside two staffs of the state…
COURT REMANDS FAKE SURETY IN PRISON
Justice A.T. Mohammed of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Friday, August 23, 2019 remanded William Greatman in prison custody for forgery contrary to Section 1 (2) (c) of the Miscellaneous Offences Act CAP M17 of the Revised Edition (Laws of the Fe…
P&ID Gas Contract: EFCC Opens Investigation Into $8.9billion UK Court Award Against Nigeria
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu today, Friday, August 23, 2019, disclosed that the Commission had commenced investigation into the circumstances leading to the $8.9billion arbitral award against Nigeria by a United Kingdom Court ov…
COURT JAILS TWO OIL THIEVES IN PORT HARCOURT
Justice A.T. Mohammed of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has convicted and sentenced the duo of Nura Hassan and Uchenna Iwuoha to a fine of One Hundred Thousand Naira (N100, 000.00) each for illegal dealing in petroleum products contrary to Section 4…
ICRC Requests for Office Building from EFCC
The Infrastructural Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), on Thursday, August 22. 2019 tabled a request to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for allocation of an office building from the pool of buildings forfeited by the corrupt to the federal government thr…
EFCC Docks Lawyer For N20.4m Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal office, on Thursday, August 22, 2019, arraigned one Taofik Oladipo Elias, a lawyer, before Justice Hakeem Oshodi of the State High Court sitting in Lagos on a two-count charge bordering on stealing to the tune of N20…
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