Alleged ₦110.4bn Kogi Fraud: EFCC Tenders More Bank Records in Trial of Yahaya Bello
The trial of former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Adoza Bello before Justice Maryanne Anineh of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court, Maitama, Abuja continued on Thursday, January 15, 2026 with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC tendering more bank records…
Olukoyede Tasks NWDC Boss on Regional Development, Accountability
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ola Olukoyede has tasked the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of North West Development Commission, NWDC, Professor Shehu Abdullahi Ma’aji on the need to vigorously pursue the mandate of the re…
Alleged N33.2b Arms Procurement Fraud: Witness Narrates Flow of Multi-millions from ONSA Account for Private Use
The trial of a former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (retd) continued on January 13, 2026 before Justice C.O. Agbaza of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT High Court Maitama with the First Prosecution Witness PW1, Dr. Michael Adariku giving a breakdown of the mov…
EFCC Presents First Witness Against Defendant in Alleged N19m Land Fraud in Lagos
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal Directorate 1, on Monday, January 12, 2026, presented its first prosecution witness, PWI, Abiodun Gafar Ademolade, a businessman, in the trial of one Murtala Adebayo over an alleged N19 million land fraud before Just…
EFCC Hands over Recovered N802.4m to First Bank
The Benin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Monday, January 12, 2026 handed over the sum of N802,420,000 (Eight Hundred and Two Million, Four Hundred and Twenty Thousand Naira only) to First Bank Nigeria Plc. The money was recovered from a…
Alleged $9.7m Terrorism Financing: Judge Returns Bauchi Commissioner’s Case File for Reassignment
Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court Abuja, On Tuesday, 13 January, 2026, gave an order returning the case file of the Bauchi Commissioner for Finance, Yakubu Adamu to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho, for reassignment to a substantive judge…
EFCC Arraigns Austrian for Undeclared $800,585, €651,505 at Lagos Airport
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal Directorate 2, on Friday, January 9, 2026, arraigned one Kavlak Onal, an Austrian arrested by the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, for allegedly failing to declare the sums of $800,575 and €651,505 in his possession bef…
Court Grants Interim Forfeiture of 57 Properties, Valued at N213.2bn Linked to Malami, Two Others
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday, January 6, 2026 ordered the interim forfeiture of 57 properties suspected to be proceeds of unlawful activities linked to a former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN) and two of his so…
EFCC PRESS STATEMENT: EFCC Raises Alarm Over Campaigns of Calumny against It
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, wishes to alert the public of planned campaigns of calumny by politicians and groups having vested interests in suspects being investigated or facing prosecution by the Commission. A motley crowd of paid jobbers comprising polit…
“I am Unapproachable” - Judge Warns Counsel in Malami Trial
Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja, on Wednesday, January 7, 2026, warned counsel in the trial of former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN and two others to desist from approaching him for any favour, cautioning that his len…
Court Jails Man Two Years for N48.9m Theft
Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Monday, January 5, 2026, convicted and sentenced one Olawale Solomon Faleti, a former employee of the Lagos State Ministry of Education, to two years and five months imprisonment for N48,992,271.73 (…
Court Jails Three for Naira Mutilation in Sokoto
Justice Ahmad Mahmud of the Federal High Court Sokoto has convicted and sentenced the trio of Ahmad Abdullahi Buhari, Jamilu Bello and Yasir Muhammad Bala to five years imprisonment for Naira mutilation They were jailed on December 10, 2025, after pleading guilty to a five-count…
Terrorism Financing: Court Denies Bauchi Commissioner, Three Others Bail
Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court Abuja, on Monday, January 5, 2026, turned down bail applications of Yakubu Adamu, Bauchi State’s Commissioner of Finance and three others. The three others are Balarabe Abdullahi Ilelah, Aminu Mohammed Bose and Kabiru Yahaya Mohammed.…
Court Further Remands Malami, Son, Wife in Kuje Correctional Centre
Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, sitting in Maitama, Abuja, on Friday, January 2, 2025, further remanded former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, his son, Abubakar Abdulaziz Malami, and his wife, Hajia Bashir Asabe, in…
Disregard Bala Mohammed's Wild Claims - EFCC
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, views with great displeasure the claims of Bauchi State Governor, His Excellency, Bala Mohammed about the Commission being used by political opponents, particularly the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, to…
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