EFCC Arrests 31 Suspected Internet Fraudsters in Nasarawa State
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested 31 suspected internet fraudsters in Nassarawa State. They were arrested on Tuesday, July 1, 2025 at Nassarawa Toto, Nassarawa State, following credible intelligence on their suspected involvement in i…
Alleged $1bn Fraud: Court Rejects CBEX Operators’ Bail Applications
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja and presided over by Justice Emeka Nwite has rejected the bail application filed by three promoters of Crypto Bridge Exchange (CBEX) in the alleged $1 billion fraud. Justice Nwite, in a ruling on Monday, June 30, 2025, held that available evi…
Alleged N76bn, $31.5m Fraud: Court Adjourns Ex-AMCON MD, Kuru, Others’ Trial Till July 1
Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Monday, June 30, 2025, adjourned till July 1, 2025 further hearing in the trial of Mallam Ahmed Kuru, a former Managing Director of Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria, AMCON, and four others, ov…
Conspiracy to Steal: How I rejected $7,000 bribe for Access to Compromise Bank Internal System, Witness told court
A prosecution witness, Ajayi Michael Folaseye, has told a Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos how he rejected a $7,000 bribe allegedly offered by a colleague seeking unauthorized access to Premium Trust Bank’s internal systems. Folaseye, the first prosecution witness (PW1)…
Court Jails Two for Criminal Activities as EFCC Arraigns One for Internet Fraud in Kaduna
Justice Amina Bello of the Kaduna State High Court, sitting in Kaduna, the state capital on Monday, June 30, 2025 convicted and sentenced Sunday Ogbobi and Agu Godwin to jail for criminal activities. The Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EF…
EFCC's New Academy Gets Access Road as Olukoyede Commends Tinubu, Wike
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has recorded a major milestone in the development of its New Academy at Giri, Abuja, with the completion and commissioning of an access road to the permanent site. Executive Chairman of the Commission, Mr. Ola Olukoyede, on Mond…
EFCC Arrests 74 Suspected Internet Fraudsters in Abuja
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested 74 suspected internet fraudsters. They were arrested on Monday, June 30, 2025 at Joyous Hotel, Nyanya in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT following actionable intelligence on their suspected involve…
Abuja Property Issue: EFCC DENIES DISOBEYING COURT ORDER
The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been drawn to some media reports insinuating that it disobeyed an order of Justice Musa Liman of the Federal High Court, Abuja directing its operatives to vacate a property situated at House 6, Aso Drive, As…
Court Jails Man Seven Years for N11.4m Land Fraud in Enugu
Justice U. J. Mogboh of the Enugu State High Court sitting in Agbani, Enugu State on June 19, 2025 convicted and sentenced one George Amechi Igwesi to seven years imprisonment for land fraud. Igwesi was arraigned alongside his company, Georgeann Enterprises Limited by the Enugu Z…
Court Convicts Man for Hawking Naira Notes in Lagos
The Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday, June 27, 2025, secured the conviction and sentence of one Emmanuel Ayodele Areola before Justice Deinde Dipeolu of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos. Areola was arraigned…
Cooperate with Us - Olukoyede Urges Youths in Southeast
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede has called on youths in the Southeast to assist the Commission in ridding the region of all forms of corruption, economic and financial crimes, adding that without the youths, the futu…
Court Jails 14 Chinese for Cyberterrorism, Internet Fraud in Lagos
The Lagos Zonal Directorate 1 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday, June 27, 2025, secured the conviction and sentence of 14 Chinese for cyber-terrorism and internet fraud before Justice Daniel Osiagor of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos.…
Alleged ₦80.2bn Fraud: EFCC Kicks as Yahaya Bello Seeks Medical Travel Abroad
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, June 27, 2025, opposed an application filed by former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Adoza Bello, seeking leave of court to travel abroad for medical treatment. The application was presented before Justice Emeka Nwite…
Olukoyede Charges Reporting Entities on Sound Structures against Money Laundering
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede on Wednesday, June 25, 2025, charged reporting entities in Nigeria’s financial system to develop and operate solid, uncompromisable structures and systems capable of sustaining the gai…
Be Anti-Corruption Ambassadors, Olukoyede Charges Students
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ola Olukoyede has charged students in the country to aspire to be anti-corruption ambassadors in their schools, homes and anywhere they find themselves. Olukoyede gave the charge on Wednesday, June 25, 2025 w…
Alleged N33.8b Fraud: Mamman Gave Voluntary Confessional Statements before his Lawyers- Witness
The First Prosecution Witness, PW1, Abubakar Kwaido, in the trial-within-trial of the former Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman told Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Abuja that the former minister voluntarily and personally wrote his confessional statements in the E…
EFCC Inaugurates Integrity Clubs in 57 Lagos Schools
In furtherance of its sensitization campaign against corrupt practices, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, June 26, 2025, inaugurated its Integrity Club outreach programme in 57 public primary schools across the Lagos Mainland Local Government Educat…
EFCC Arraigns Man for Alleged N11.2m Fraud in Lagos
The Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, June 25, 2025, arraigned one Oluwadahunsola Taiwo before Justice O. A. Okunuga of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos. Taiwo, alongside Green Eagles Agribusiness Solut…
EFCC Arrests 34 Suspected Internet Fraudsters in Ekiti
Operatives of the Ibadan Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested thirty-four (34) suspected internet fraudsters. The alleged fraudsters were arrested in the early hours of Monday, June 23, 2025 at Iworoko and Ijado areas of Ado-Ekiti…
Alleged N2b Fraud : EFCC Raises More Witnesses against Hadi Sirika, Others
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, June 26, 2025 presented its 10 th and 11 th witnesses in continuation of the trial of a former Minister of Aviation Hadi Abubakar Sirika, his daughter; Fatima Hadi Sirika, son-in-law law; Hamma Jalal Sule and Al Bur…
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