The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission said on Wednesday that it remained undaunted in its prosecution of a former Registrar of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde. The ICPC, which is prosecuting Ojerinde for alleged N5bn fraud, alleged in ...

The Federal High Court, Abuja, has awarded a N1 million fine against the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission for the unlawful detention of former Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Dibu Ojerinde. In the ruling, Justice Obiora Egwuatu also awarded ...

The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory on Tuesday fixed July 13 for the ruling on the enforcement of a fundamental rights suit filed by the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele. Justice Hamza Muazu fixed the date after listening to submissions made by ...

By Francis Ugwu A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Department of State Services (DSS) and its Director General to immediately grant the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, unrestricted access to his lawyers and family members. Justice Hamza Muazu ...

By Francis Ezediuno The Federal High Court in Abuja has suspended the trial of a former Minister of Aviation, Senator Stella Adaeze Oduah in the alleged N7.9 billion fraud charges brought against her by the Federal Government. The planned arraignment of Mrs Oduah for today, June 15, was put off ...

By Ifreke Inyang The Department of State Services, DSS, on Wednesday night, invited the suspended Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa for questioning. A statement signed by the agency’s Public Relations Officer, Peter Afunanya, confirmed that Bawa ...

By Francis Ugwu President Bola Tinubu has suspended the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, AbdulRasheed Bawa indefinitely. This follows weighty allegations of abuse of office levelled against him. Bawa was directed to immediately hand over the affairs of his office ...

By Ifreke Inyang A senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, has advised the Department of State Services (DSS) to transfer the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, to the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for further ...

The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has granted the former Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state the permission to travel abroad for medical treatment. The court permission comes without objection from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Recall that Fayose is standing ...

The Zamfara State Government, has described a statement issued by the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as an act of attention-seeking from a political party yet to recover from defeat. The APC statement was a response to the assertion by the governor of Zamfara State, Dauda ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission( EFCC) on Friday quizzed the former Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs. Pauline Tallen over alleged fraud. A source close to the commission said that the ex-minister who arrived at the Abuja Zonal Command of the Commission on invitation at 12pm was still ...

The immediate past Governor of Ekiti State and former Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has refuted the claim that he is under probe by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over an alleged N4bn fraud. Fayemi, in a statement on Friday by the Head of the Fayemi ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary of Latest Nigerian News from Nigerian Newspapers of Friday 2nd June 2023 1. The local production of Premium Motor Spirit, otherwise known as petrol, by Dangote Refinery, Port Harcourt Refining Company and others in Nigeria is not going to change the pump ...

By  Abiodun Sanusi A former governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, is currently been interrogated at the zonal command office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, in Ilorin, Kwara State, The PUNCH has gathered. Impeccable sources privy to the development, told our correspondent ...

By Ochogwu Sunday The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has alerted the general public of the alleged move by some governors and other politicians accused of corruption to flee the country ahead of the May 29 handover. EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren raised the alarm in a ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has described the claim by Zamfara State Governor, Bello Muhammed Matawalle, that its Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa was after him for refusing to give him $2m bribe, as a hoax. The Spokesman for the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, said in a late-night statement ...

The president-elect, Bola Tinubu and some of his associates have again been linked to 20 properties bought in the United Kingdom when he was serving as Lagos State governor. According to an investigation published yesterday by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), 17 of the ...

David Nwamini, the potential kidney donor involved in the organ trafficking case that led to the conviction of Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has revealed that he wanted to remain and work in the UK as he feared for his safety in Nigeria. In his impact statement, read out in court during the sentencing ...

Some Nigerians stormed the headquarters of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) today to demand the resignation and arrest of CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele over the failed new naira notes policy. The protesters, wielding placards, were sighted on the premises of the apex bank, and noted that Emefiele ...

A firm belonging to Oluwaseyi, son of Nigeria’s president-elect, Bola Tinubu, bought an $11 million London mansion that the Muhammadu Buhari government was seeking to confiscate as part of a probe into one of the biggest corruption scandals in the country’s history, Bloomberg reported yesterday, ...

The Federal Government will today, at the Federal High Court in Abuja, put the former Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Prof Lawrence Adedibu Ojerinde on trial on fresh corruption charges. Unlike the previous arraignment, Ojerinde would be docked along with three of ...

By  Dayo Oyewo Civil society organisations demanding the sacking of the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, over his disregard for court orders, resumed the call on Tuesday. The activists during a joint press conference in Lagos, on Tuesday, stated ...

Two chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Bauchi State, Aminu Umar Gadiya and Saleh Hussaini Gamawa have been convicted by a Federal High Court, Bauchi and sentenced to two years imprisonment for offences that bordered on conspiracy and money laundering to the tune of N142, ...

Lagos State Special Offences Court has sentenced former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s in-law, Dr John Abebe to seven years of imprisonment for laundering and forgery. Justice Mojisola Dada gave the judgement after it was established that the prosecution proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt. ...

The United States of America said on Thursday in Abuja that it would return to Nigeria a sum of $954, 807 seized from the late former Bayelsa State Governor, Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha. The decision of the American government to repatriate the money to Nigeria was made public by the ...

Justice Chukujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Wednesday adjourned hearing in the trial of former Ekiti governor Ayodele Fayose to March 20. The politician and his company, Spotless Investment Limited are being prosecuted over an alleged N6.9 billion fraud. The ...

By  Abiodun Sanusi Nigeria has  again scored 24 out of 100 points while ranking 150 among 180 countries on the 2022 Corruption Perception Index released by Transparency International on Tuesday, The PUNCH reports. Although the country maintained its previous year’s (2021) score of 24 out of ...

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has re-arrested the former Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Adedibu Ojerinde, on Thursday in Abuja. According to a statement on Thursday by the Commission’s spokesperson, Azuka ...

CBN Gov may shun DSS invitation on forex dealings By Babar Ignatius Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele may not honour invitation by the nation's secret service flagship, Department of State Services (DSS). He is expected to report at the DSS Abuja headquarters today ...

• 61 of 100 cases ongoing one and a half decades after • Money almost equals FG’s 2023 budget of N21.83 trillion, Ways and Means debt of N22.7 trillion •8 former Ministers/Special Advisers, 5 senators, others make list •Money credited to women suspects: N8. 9 trillion, $20 billion; men: ...

Chinedu Eze The immediate-past Director-General of the Labour Party (LP) Presidential Campaign Council, Dr. Doyin Okupe, yesterday stated that his re-arrest by the Department of State Services (DSS) on the request of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), was erroneous and should ...

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has secured the conviction of an officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) for defrauding a citizen of N100,000 to help her to secure a fake NSCDC job. The spokesperson of ICPC, Mrs Azuka Ogugua ...

By Sunday Aborisade:The Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions has summoned the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Umana Okon Umana, over allegations of non-performance. The Chairman of the panel, Senator Ayo Akinyelure, stated this Wednesday at a news conference in Abuja. He ...

For a former Minister of Aviation, Senator Stella Oduah, the news that the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, has given the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) approval to prosecute her for an alleged N5 billion fraud  must have come as a ...

The Department of Correctional Services on Friday said former president Jacob Zuma has served his 15-month sentence.The department added these concluded administrative processes related to Zuma's sentencing.Zuma said he felt mixed emotions but expressed gratitude he was free to "do whatever I want ...

By Ibrahim Oyewale:The Kogi State House of Assembly has summoned the former Governor of the state, Alhaji Ibrahim Idris, to appear before the ad-hoc committee investigating alleged revenue shortchange by some companies operating in the state.This was part of the Assembly resolution after the ...

By Sunday Aborisade:The Commissioners in the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) have asked the Senate to commence investigations into the corruption allegations they levelled against their Chairman, Prof. Mohammed Isah.The CCB is the Ombudsman set up to fight corruption within the public service system ...

By  Gbenga Oloniniran  The Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, carried out a social experiment by disguising as a civilian and driving at about 11:50pm through police checkpoints.Hundeyin said he passed through the first and second checkpoints, adding that his “papers ...

By Sikiru Obarayese The Nigerian Senate said it will release the report and findings of the committee on the alleged payment of $5 million by the management of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) to a law firm for a service not rendered.The Senate Public Account ...

If you have never left Nigeria to live or travel to stay in other developed nations of the world, you may think that Nigeria is poor because of corruption, you may not know that there is gross corruption in those advanced countries too.Corruption is everywhere, from Uk to US, China, EU and other ...

By Don SilasGarba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, has disclosed that the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) would soon reveal the identities of highly placed Nigerians behind oil theft in Nigeria.Appearing on a Trust TV programme, ...

By Olamide Famuwagun An end seems not to be in sight in the crisis at the Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi, Lagos State, as a demoted officer, Chima Igwe, who was asked to refund salaries he collected for 18 years, has been made a director.A memo purportedly signed by the Acting ...

Two developers, Oluwasegun Adewara, and one Okeowo, have gone into hiding after allegedly defrauding no fewer than 70 prospective tenants at Lawanson, in the Surulere area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the prospective tenants visited the building, which was under construction, to ...