Olukoyede Charges Students on Good Role Models
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede, has called on students across the country to identify and emulate good models in the country in order to steer clear of internet fraud and other financial crimes. The EFCC boss made t…
Court Jails Seven Internet Fraudsters in Benin City
The Benin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, between November 6 and 7, 2024 secured the conviction and sentence of seven internet fraudsters before Justice A.N Erhabor of Edo State High Court, sitting in Benin City. The convicts are Johnson M…
EFCC Arrests Chinese Brothers, Two Others for Alleged Illegal Dealing in Solid Minerals
Operatives of the Enugu Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested two Chinese siblings: Wang Jiang and Wang Richard for allegedly making efforts to export some solid minerals without requisite permit. While Jiang was arrested at the Ak…
EFCC Presents Second Witness against Couple in Alleged N2.7bn Fraud Trial in Lagos
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, November 7, 2024, presented its second prosecution witness, PW2, Adesola Adeyinka, founder and CEO of Credit PRO Business Limited, in the trial of a couple, Ruth Idowu and Oriyomi Idowu, who are being prosecuted for…
Court Jails Man for Theft in Kaduna
Justice A. Isiaka of the Kaduna State High Court has convicted and sentenced one Yusuf Umar Salisu to prison for fraud. He was prosecuted by the Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on a one-count charge bordering on cheating, theft and u…
Court Jails Man for Theft in Kaduna
Justice A. Isiaka of the Kaduna State High Court has convicted and sentenced one Yusuf Umar Salisu to prison for fraud. He was prosecuted by the Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on a one-count charge bordering on cheating, theft and u…
Lagos Court Jails Man One Year for Possession of Fraudulent Documents
Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, on Thursday, November 7, 2024, convicted and sentenced one Miracle Leleji Tega to one year and two months imprisonment for possession of fraudulent documents. Tega was arraigned by the Lagos Zonal Directorate o…
EFCC Arrests 21 Suspected Internet Fraudsters in Benin City
Operatives of the Benin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, November 5, 2024 arrested 21 suspected internet fraudsters at different locations in Benin City. The suspects were arrested based on actionable intelligence on their alleg…
Court Jails Two for Operating BDC without Licence in Damaturu
Justice Fadimatu Aminu of the Federal High Court, Damaturu has convicted and sentenced the duo of Haruna Ahmadu and Kabiru Iliyasu to separate jail terms for operating Bureau de change, BDC, businesses without an appropriate license. The defendants were first arraigned on Tuesday…
Court Jails Internet Fraudster for N12m Fraud in Maiduguri
Justice Jude Dagat of the Federal High Court, Maiduguri has convicted and sentenced one Habila Dzarma Ishaku to nine years imprisonment. Ishaku was re-arraigned on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, by the Maiduguri Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC,…
EFCC, CCB Join Forces against Corruption
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede, on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, expressed the Commission’s resolve to work with the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, in the fight against corruption, economic and financial crimes, stressin…
Corruption, Bane of Development in Nigeria- Olukoyede
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and financial Crimes Commission EFCC, Ola Olukoyede has stated that corruption, economic and financial crimes are threats to development in Nigeria and other African countries. The EFCC boss stated this in Abuja on Saturday, November 2, 2024…
Olukoyede Commissions EFCC's Chemical Forensics Laboratory in Port Harcourt
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede, on Wednesday, November 6, 2024, commissioned a Chemical Forensics Laboratory in its Port Harcourt Directorate, Rivers State to enhance and fast-rack its oil and gas investigations and…
Court Jails Businessman for N1.1m Fraud in Maiduguri
Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri on Tuesday, November 5, 2024 convicted and sentenced Ali Bukar Jidda to six months imprisonment. He was jailed upon being arraigned by the Maiduguri Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,…
Olukoyede Tasks Youth to Use Fashion and Designing to Grow the Economy
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede, has called on youths across the country to make use of opportunities provided by the booming fashion and designing industry to help develop the economy of Nigeria and be good ambassad…
Olukoyede to Students: “Don’t Allow Internet Crimes Abort your Education”
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ola Olukoyede, has called on students across the country to be very careful while using the internet and not allow indulgence in internet fraud to abort their educational dreams . Olukoyede made the cal…
Olukoyede Cautions Students against Negative Use of Internet
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede, has cautioned youths and students across the country against negative use of the internet, stressing that the internet could be counter-productive if wrongly used. EFCC boss made the…
Olukoyede Charges Students against Corruption to Safeguard their Future
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede, has urged students across the country to see internet fraud and other acts of corruption as a serious setback to the development of the nation and desist from them in the interest of…
Alleged N10m Fraud: EFCC Presents More Witness against Ex-Banker
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, presented its third prosecution witness, PW3, Bamaiyi Mairiga, a forensic expert in the Forensic Department of the EFCC Headquarters, Abuja, in the trial of one Babatunde Keshinro, a former Head, Co…
Alleged N3b Fraud: I Exchanged Naira for Dollars for Yahaya Bello -BDC Operator
Jamilu Abdullahi, a Bureau de Change operator and the third prosecution witness in the trial of Ali Bello, on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, affirmed before Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja that funds were brought to him by agents of Kogi State Governm…
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