By Nsikak Nseyen The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is to arraign former Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika, before Justice Sylvanus Oriji of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Maitama on Thursday. Sirika, a minister in the administration of former President ...

By Seun Opejobi Veteran journalist, Dele Momodu has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, of “misfiring” in the ongoing case against former Kogi governor, Yahaya Bello. Momodu said the EFCC failed to do due diligence during their investigation against Bello. Speaking during ...

By Ogaga Ariemu A former Director of Information Technology of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, John Ayoh, has explained how he collected $600,000 allegedly for contract gratification for the embattled ex-apex bank governor, Godwin Emefiele. Ayoh, while being led in evidence by the Economic and ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has confirmed the receipt of the refund of $760,000 paid as advanced school fees by a former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello for his children at the American International School, Abuja. The spokesperson for the EFCC, Dele Oyewale, confirmed the ...

By Seun Opejobi Former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello, has denied paying the sum of $720,000 school fees for his children using the state government’s funds. Bello was reacting to the claim by the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ola Olukoyede that he withdrew ...

Hamma Bello, the eighth posecution witness in the trial of a former Head of Service of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita, narrated before Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja, on Thursday, how the defendant and her subordinates diverted public funds into their private ...

The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ola Olukoyede, claimed on Tuesday that investigation by the anti-graft agency revealed that the embattled former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, withdrew $720,000 from the state’s coffers to pay his child’s school fees. The EFCC ...

The chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr.Ola Olukoyede, insisted yesterday that the anti-graft agency would do everything humanly possible to bring immediate past governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, to account for his tenure in office. Olukoyede, who briefed the ...

By John Akinfehinwa Some youths in Kogi State on Tuesday protested against plans by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, to arrest former Governor Yahaya Bello over alleged N80.2 billion fraud. The youths, who gathered in their numbers, barricaded the popular Lokoja-Abuja road which ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said on Sunday it has freshly recovered $445,000 and N3bn in the ongoing probe of the scandal in the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs. The EFCC spokesman, Dele Oyewale, told The PUNCH that the $445,000 and N3bn were recovered between March and April in ...

A dispatch rider, Monday Osazuwa, on Friday, narrated to the Special Offences Court in Lagos how the embattled former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Godwin Emefiele, instructed him on different occasions to collect the sum of $3m cash in tranches. Osazuwa, who was led in evidence in chief by ...

By Muhammad Bukar The Kano State Government is set to arraign former governor Abdullahi Ganduje in court over alleged misappropriation of state funds and alleged diversion of landed properties belonging to the state. An arraignment summon seen by our correspondent shows that Ganduje is to be ...

By Casmir Nwankwo The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has filed a fresh 26-count charge bordering on abuse of office and corruption against the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr Godwin Emefiele. Emefiele will be arraigned before Justice Rahman Oshodi of the ...

By Favour Olekanma The trial of former Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, governor, Godwin Emefiele, continued on Thursday before Justice Hamza Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja. Emefiele is standing trial before Justice Muazu on 20-count amended charges bordering on corrupt ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission says it has uncovered how the immediate-past governor of Kwara State, Abdulfattah Ahmed, allegedly chartered private jets with the sum of N1,610,730,500.00 meant for the security and running cost of the Government of Kwara State. The anti-grant agency ...

By Abdulrazaq Adebayo Protest erupted at the Ilorin Zonal Command office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday over the continued detention of a former governor of Kwara State, Abdulfatah Ahmed. Ahmed’s detention at the EFCC Ilorin office entered a third day on ...

By Matthew Atungwu The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is currently quizzing a former governor of Kwara State, Abdulfatah Ahmed, over shady transactions running into billions of naira while he was in office. The former governor was seen arriving at the Ilorin office of the EFCC on ...

By Francis Ugwu Former lawmaker, Senator Elisha Abbo has challenged his critics to institute legal action against him on his claim that some judges and justices engaged in bribery during electoral litigation. Abbo represented Adamawa North Senatorial District in the Senate before he was sacked ...

By Chris Johnson The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has declared Margaret Emefiele, the wife of former Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Governor, Godwin Emefiele and three others wanted for alleged involvement in money laundering activities. According to the EFCC, Margaret Emefiele, ...

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested the General Overseer of Faith On The Rock Ministry International, Apostle Theophilus Oloche Ebonyi, for defrauding church members and other Nigerians using fake grants from the Ford Foundation to the tune of N1. 3 ...

By Ochogwu Sunday Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ola Olukoyede, says the anti-graft agency has uncovered a religious sect laundering money for terrorists. Olukoyede, who made the revelation at dialogue on ‘Youth, Religion, and the Fight against Corruption’, on ...

By Lovina AnthonyThe Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC will on Wednesday, arraign the former governor of Anambra State, Willie Maduabuchi Obiano before Justice I. E Ekwo of the Federal High Court Abuja.It was gathered that Obiano would be arraigned on nine count ...

The former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, was on Friday arraigned at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Maitama, Abuja, on 20 count-charge bordering on corruption and forgery. Dressed in an ash-coloured pair of trousers and a dark jacket, the ex-CBN ...

There is anxiety in some quarters in Rivers State as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is set to reopen the books to probe the former Governor of Rivers State, Dr. Peter Odili.The renewed probe is coming after more than 16 years, when the anti-graft agency alleged that Odili ...

The suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Betta Edu, may not return to office, investigations by Saturday PUNCH revealed on Friday. The Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Ajuri Ngelale, disclosed this in a statement that the action of the ...

The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the remand of the former Minister of Power and Steel, Olu Agunloye, in Kuje prison. The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the remand of the former Minister of Power and Steel, Olu Agunloye, in Kuje prison. He was remanded at the Kuje Correctional ...

By Matthew Atungwu The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Abel Olumuyiwa Enitan, has taken charge of the affairs of the Ministry following the suspension of the minister, Betta Edu. This development is in line with the directive issued by ...

By Emmanuel Ugwueze As debates continue to heat up over the involvement of Nigeria’s Minister of Interior, Hon. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo in the scandalous contract at the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, the Young Progressive Party, YPP, has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu ...

By Ogaga Ariemu The Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, summoned the chief executives of Zenith, Providus and Jaiz banks on Tuesday for questioning over alleged fraud allegations rocking the Humanitarian and Poverty Alleviation Ministry under suspended Minister Betta Edu and ex-minister ...

By John Owen Nwachukwu President Bola Tinubu has suspended the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, with immediate effect. Recall that the Presidency had said the appropriate authorities are investigating the financial irregularity involving the transfer of ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has written to over 85 entities comprising corporate organisations and individuals over an ongoing investigation into alleged fraudulent foreign exchange allocations under the embattled former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele. It ...

By Ogaga Ariemu The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has tracked and frozen N30 billion of the N44 billion moved from the accounts of the National Social Investment Programme Agency, NSIPA. The development comes barely 24 hours after Halima Shehu, the embattled National Coordinator ...

By Ogaga AriemuSadiya Umar-Farouq, former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development under ex-president Muhammadu Buhari government, refused to honour the invitation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission probing an alleged N37.1 billion laundered ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested and detained the National Co-ordinator and Chief Executive Officer of the National Social Investment Programme Agency, Halima Shehu, over the ongoing probe into the N37,170,855,753.44 allegedly laundered in the Ministry of Humanitarian ...

By Chris Johnson The Office of the Deputy Governor of Nasarawa State has been rocked by alleged theft of an undisclosed amount of US Dollars, DAILY POST has learnt. It was also gathered that the Deputy Governor, Dr Emmanuel Agbadu Akabe, has issued an ultimatum for the return of the alleged ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has invited the former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, over an ongoing probe into the N37,170,855,753.44 allegedly laundered under her watch through a contractor, James Okwete. The ...

The Commissioner of Police, Oyo State Command, Adebola Hamzat, has ordered the immediate dismissal of two Special Constabulary working with the state command over extortion.The two dismissed police constabularies, identified as Jimoh Lukman and Kareem Fatai, were paraded at the Oyo State Police ...

By Racheal AyodeleMusiliu Obanikoro, the former minister of state for defence, on Wednesday, disclosed that N1.219 billion cash was airlifted to Ekiti state ex-governor, Ayodele Fayose during the 2014 election. DAILY POST reports that Fayose is facing trial by the Economic and Financial ...

By Fadehan Oyeyemi Seven days after he was granted bail, a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele, is still languishing in Kuje Prison, in Abuja. The ex-CBN chief has not been able to perfect the bail conditions imposed on him by High Court of the Federal Capital ...

By Fadehan Oyeyemi Justice Hamza Muazu of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, has ordered that the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN, Godwin Emefiele, be remanded in Kuje prison pending the determination of his request for bail. Emefiele will remain in ...

By Fadehan Oyeyemi Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, will today be put on trial by the Federal Government on alleged economic sabotage-related offences. Emefiele, whose trial was aborted about 24 hours ago, will be arraigned at a High Court in the Federal ...

The route to wealth is hard work, not fraud.Following the release of most of the arrested students of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, some parents last Friday demanded an apology from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for an unlawful clampdown on their wards. ...

The Inter Party Advisory Council in Osun State on Saturday announced the suspension of its Deputy Chairman, Mr Femi Adesuyi, for the alleged diversion of palliatives given to the group by the state government to cushion the effects of fuel subsidy removal. Adesuyi, who is the chairman of the ...

The Management of Kaduna Electric has announced the dismissal of no fewer than 39 staff members for various offences which were in breach of the company’s policy. The company’s Head of Corporate Communication, Abdulazeez Abdullahi, made this known in a statement in Kaduna on Monday, saying that ...

The new Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ola Olukoyede, will inherit no fewer than 25 high-profile corruption cases involving former governors, ministers and senators, Sunday PUNCH can report.Some of the cases, especially those against some ex-governors, have lasted ...

By Ifreke Inyang Barcelona President, Joan Laporta, has been charged with suspected bribery over referee payments. Spanish news agency EFE reports that the payments were made to companies linked to the former vice-president of the refereeing committee, José María Enríquez Negreira. However, ...

By Abdul Babajide An Akure Magistrate Court has issued a bench warrant for former Ondo State deputy governor, Agboola Ajayi. The warrant was issued in response to allegations of stealing leveled against the immediate past deputy governor of the state. He was accused of obtaining a brand new ...

The House of Representatives has directed the Committee on Public Account to look into claims of improper handling of COVID-19 intervention funding. The order came from a motion moved on Tuesday, during plenary by Nyampa Zakari, a PDP member from Adamawa State. Zakari claimed in his motion that ...

By Don Silas Former Nigerian Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke, on Monday, appeared in a London court over charges of receiving bribes in the form of cash, flights on private jets, luxury goods and the use of high-end properties in Britain in return for awarding oil contracts. Making ...

By Sodiq Ojuroungbe The Chairman of Ijebu East Local Government Area of Ogun State, Wale Adedayo, has accused Governor Dapo Abiodun of diverting the statutory Federal Allocation due to the state’s Local Governments in the last two years. Adedayo, in a letter written to former Governor, Chief ...