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…
Yahaya Bello’s Alleged N80.2bn Fraud : How N1.09bn Vanished from Kogi Government’s Account in Three Days-Witness
A prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Adoza Bello, on Thursday, June 26, 2025, narrated before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, how a staggering ₦1,096,830,000 (One Billion, Ninety-Six Million, Eig…
Alleged N110 Billion Fraud: Court Adjourns Yahaya Bello’s Trial to July 8
Justice Maryanne Anenih of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Maitama, Abuja, on Wednesday, adjourned the N110 billion fraud trial of the immediate past Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, and two others until July 8; October 8 and 9; and November 12 and 13. Bello i…
Alleged N1.9bn Fraud: EFCC`s Witnesses Narrate How Ministry Director, Surveyor Siphoned Contract Funds
The First Prosecuting Witness, PW1, William Abimbola, in the matter of former Deputy Director,Highways, Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, Augustine Ojo Olowoniyan, alongside a surveyor, Sulaiman Abdulkadir Muhammed of the Department of Highways and Planning on Monday, June 2…
Kaduna Court Jails Man for Internet Fraud
Justice Amina Bello of the Kaduna State High Court, sitting in Kaduna State on Wednesday, June 25, 2025 convicted and sentenced one Ezeani Victor Udochukwu to jail for fraud. He was prosecuted by the Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC a…
Money Laundering: Olukoyede Charges Banks’ Compliance Officers on Measures to Combat Financial Crimes
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede, has called on compliance officers in the nation’s banking sector to embrace technology-driven measures to combat financial crimes. He made this call in Lagos on Wednesday, June 25, 20…
Courts Sentence Four Internet Fraudsters to Jail in Port Harcourt
Justices P. I. Ajoku, P. I. Ayua and S. I. Mark of the Federal High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Wednesday, June 25, 2025 convicted and sentenced Daniel Ebubechi Chinweobo, Timi Olamide Samuel, Chibueze Thaddeus Ugochukwu and Emmanuel Linus to various jail ter…
Olukoyede Calls for Enhanced Inter-agency Collaboration against Trans-border Crimes
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ola Olukoyede has called for enhanced inter-agency collaboration in the fight against transnational crimes among the member states of West and Central African regions as well as adequate capacity buildi…
Again, Court Jails Mama Boko Haram for N11m Contract Fraud in Maiduguri
Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court sitting in Maiduguri on Wednesday, 25 June 2025 convicted and sentenced the trio of Aisha Alkali Wakil (a.k.a mama boko haram), Tahiru Saidu Daura and Prince Lawal Shoyode to fourteen years jail term each. The defendants were a…
EFCC Tasks Gombe Market Traders on Currency Counterfeiting
The Acting Zonal Director of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Gombe Zonal Directorate, Deputy Commander of the EFCC, DCE Sa'ad Hanafi Sa'ad has tasked Gombe Local market Traders Association to always report cases of currency counterfeiting to the Commission. He…
Olukoyede to SEDC: “Bring South East to Limelight”
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Ola Olukoyede has charged the Executive Director of South East Development Commission, SEDC, Mark Okoye to bring the South East region to limelight by prioritizing the development of the region throu…
Be Generals in War against Corruption, Olukoyede Charges Corps Members
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede, has urged youths in the country to be foot soldiers, brigade commanders and generals of the anti-corruption fight and not convicts of internet fraud. He gave the charge on Tuesday Jun…
Court Jails Six Chinese for Cyber-Terrorism, Internet Fraud in Lagos
Justice Justice D. I. Dipeolu and Justice A. O. Faji of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos has convicted and sentenced six Chinese to one year imprisonment each for cyber-terrorism and internet fraud. The convicts are: JIA You (a.k.a A. You), Wang Zheng Feng (a.k.a.Fe…
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