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…
Court Orders Final Forfeiture of $2m, Seven Properties Linked to Emefiele
Justice Dehinde Dipeolu of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Friday, November 1, 2024, ordered the final forfeiture of the sum of $2.045m, seven landed properties and the two share certificates of Queensdorf Global Fund Limited Trust linked to a former Governor o…
Court Jails Two for Currency Racketeering in Ibadan
Justice E.U Akpan of the Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State, has convicted and sentenced two currency racketeers to six months imprisonment each. The convicts were jailed upon being arraigned by the Ibadan Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commis…
Olukoyede Gives One Year Scorecard, Restates Resolve against Corruption
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ola Olukoyede has restated his resolve to continue his frontal war against economic and financial crimes and other acts of corruption in order to sustain and surpass his impressive one year scorecard as…
EFCC Seeks Yahaya Bello’s trial in Absentia
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday October 30, 2024 asked Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, to proceed with the trial of a former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello in absentia, arguing that his non-appearance…
EFCC Arrests 25 Suspected Internet Fraudsters in Benin City
Operatives of the Benin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, October 30, 2024 arrested 25 suspected internet fraudsters at different locations in Benin City, Edo State. The suspects were arrested based on credible intelligence on…
EFCC Arrests 55 Suspected Internet Fraudsters in Ilorin
Operatives of the Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, October 30, 2024 arrested fifty-five(55) suspected internet fraudsters at different locations in Offa, Offa Local Government Area of Kwara State. They were arrested in…
EFCC Arrests 25 Suspected Internet Fraudsters in Benin City
Operatives of the Benin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, October 30, 2024 arrested 25 suspected internet fraudsters at different locations in Benin City, Edo State. The suspects were arrested based on credible intelligence on…
Undergraduate Bags 14 Years Jail Term in Port Harcourt
Justice A. T. Mohammed of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has convicted and sentenced a final year student of the University of Port Harcourt, Henry Nathaniel Ekanem fourteen(14) years imprisonment for internet fraud. He was jailed on Wednesday, Oct…
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