Witness Reveals How Former Bank Chief, Erastus Akingbola Bought London Properties for £9.7m
A prosecution witness, Abdulraheem Jimoh, in the ongoing trial of Erastus Akingbola, a former Managing Director of the defunct Intercontinental Bank Plc, on Wednesday, March 13, 2019, told Justice Mojisola Olatoregun of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, how the defendant d…
Love Scammer Jailed in Osogbo
An Osun State High Court, sitting in Osogbo has sentenced one Adeniyi Ebenezzar (aka Mary Oliver) to four months in prison in a fraud charge brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan zonal office. Justice W. O. Akanbi of the State High Cour…
Court Jails Fake EFCC Staff
Justice Turaki Mohammed of the Federal Hgh Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Monday, March 11, 2019 convicted and sentenced to one year imprisonment, Mr David Nimdu, a fake staff of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, arrested and put to trial by th…
2019 Polls: TransparencIT Commends EFCC's Anti-Vote Buying Campaign, Election Monitoring Role
The Transparency Information Technology Initiative, TransparencIT, has commended the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for its role in checkmating vote-buying and other forms of corruption in the just concluded 2019 polls. In a press statement, signed by Frank Ogbu…
EFCC Arrests Two For Impersonation
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal office, has arrested Michael Friday Edenya and Adedayo Amzat, Managing Director, Zedcrest Capital Limited, for alleged offences bordering on impersonation and forgery. The first suspect, Edenya, allegedly delivered f…
Benin Zonal Office Trains Officers on Cyber Crime
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Benin Zonal Office on Wednesday, March 13, 2019 commenced a 2-day training programme on Cyber crime in line with the acting Executive chairman, Ibrahim Magu, resolved to eliminate economic and financial crimes in t…
Court Adjourns Ex-Oyo Gov, Alao-Akala's N11.5bn Fraud Trial to May 2
Justice Olalekan Owolabi of a State High Court, sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State has adjourned the trial of a former governor of the state, Otunba Adebayo Christopher Alao-Akala, to May 2, 2019. Alao-Akala is standing trial along with his then Commissioner for Local Government and Ch…
EFCC Re-arraigns Saraki’s Aide, Makanjuola, Others For N3.5bn Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal office, on Wednesday, March 13, 2019 re-arraigned Gbenga Makanjuola, Deputy Chief of Staff to the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, before Justice Maureen A. Onyetenu sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on an amended 11-count cha…
EFCC Docks Man for N15m Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on March 13, 2019 arraigned one Akpu Clement Chijioke before Justice I.E. Gafai of the Federal High Court, Awka, Anambra State on a 14-count charge bordering on stealing and cybercrime to the tune of N15 million (Fifteen Million…
EFCC Arraigns Bank For $50,000, N9.2m Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal office, on Tuesday, March 12, 2019, arraigned Ecobank Plc before Justice Saliu Seidu of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos on a five-count charge bordering on conversion of funds to the tune of $50,000 an…
EFCC Secures Conviction of Fraudster
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan Zonal Office on Monday, March 12, 2019 secured the conviction of one Ogundiran Tosin Iyanu before Justice P.I. Ajoko of the Federal High Court, sitting in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. The convict, who earlier pleaded "n…
EFCC Docks Businessman for N34m Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Gombe Zonal Office has arraigned one Alhaji Umar Aji before Justice Nehizena Apolabi of the Federal High Court, Gombe State on a one-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence. Yahaya Umar Barambu, the nominal co…
EFCC Secures Conviction of Fake American Soldier
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction of Osahon Scott, who posed as one United States, US military officer to perpetrate online fraud. Scott was arraigned on March 12, 2019, before Justice Umar Bature of a Federal Capital High, FCT High Co…
EU Officials Visits EFCC
The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu today, March 12, 2019, reiterated the importance of the support of the European Union to the Commission in the fight against economic and financial crimes. Magu made this while receiving membe…
Alleged N6.3bn Fraud: EFCC Presents More Witnesses against Ex-Plateau Gov, Jang
The trial of a former governor of Plateau State, Jonah Jang, continued with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, presenting more witnesses against him and Yusuf Gyang Pam, a cashier of the Office of the Secretary to the State Government. They are being prosecuted o…
Ex-Jaiz Bank Staff Bags One Year for N1.5m Fraud
Justice Fadawu Umar of the Borno State High Court, sitting in Maiduguri, has sentenced Imam Malik to one year in prison for fraudulently collecting the sum of N1,500,000 (One Million Five Hundred Thousand Naira) only from one Muhammad Sani Abubakar, for a purported Mudaraba Inves…
EFCC, ICPC Inaugurate Anti-Corruption Club in Enugu
The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu has charged Nigerian youths to uphold the tenets of integrity and high morals in their dealings with one another, in order to ensure a corrupt-free society. Magu gave the charge through a staf…
Polls: EFCC Arraigns Two for Vote-Buying
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Gombe Zonal Office has arraigned one Musa Umar and Babangida Bappa Ciroma, before Justice Sa'ad Muhammad of the Gombe State High Court on a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy and bribery. Following a sensitization campai…
EFCC Arrests Party Agent with over N1.2m, Another with Three Hundred Thousand Naira
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Maiduguri Zonal office has arrested one Abba Ali Abbari, a party agent, delegated alleged to have been hired to distributes some money to people from Auno, Dalwa, Jakana in Konduga LGA Borno State. Abbari was arrested at the NYSC Inte…
ELECTION SENSITISATION IN OYO STATE
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibadan Zonal office, toured major areas of Ibadan, the Oyo State Capital, to campaign against vote buying and vote selling, and to sensitize them on the need to cooperate with the agency in its efforts towards ensuring t…
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