The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a former Minister of Commerce and Industry, Charles Ugwu, for alleged conspiracy and loan fraud to the tune of N3.6bn. The spokesperson for the EFCC, Dele Oyewale, in a statement on Monday, said the ex-minister was arrested alongside one ...

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 ...

Reports have emerged of the Department of the State Security Service, DSS, preventing officials of the anti-graft agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, from gaining access to their office in Ikoyi, Lagos. A source whose identity was not disclosed told Premium Times that DSS ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is beaming its searchlight on suspected fraudsters using real estate for money laundering. An EFCC lawyer, Chris Mishela, gave the hint in Benin, the Edo capital, at a training for journalists on effective reporting of economic and financial ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has debunked reports that it’s recruiting. The commission gave the denial in a series of tweets on Sunday. The anti-graft agency said a statement inviting unsuspecting applicants to submit applications through a dubious EFCC Recruitment ...

By Francis Ugwu The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned Professor Uche Chigozie Edwin for an alleged fraud of N1.4bn at the Federal High Court in Lagos. Edwin was arraigned alongside two of his firms. This was disclosed in a statement issued via the ...

The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. AbudulRasheed Bawa, yesterday disclosed that over N500 billion of the old N500 and N1,000 banknotes were yet to be returned to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in line with the apex bank’s directive following the naira ...

By John Alechenu & Omeiza Ajayi, ABUJA THE Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has asked the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to arrest and prosecute the Presidential Candidate of the ...

• 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: ...

By Ogaga Ariemu The founder of DAAR Communications Limited, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, has been allegedly arrested by the police in the United Kingdom. According to This Day Newspaper, a source confirmed the development on Sunday. The source disclosed that Dokpesi was arrested in London ...

The former Osun State governor, Rauf Aregbesola, on Saturday, said his administration was free of debt when he left office in 2018. Aregbesola who is now the Minister of Interior reacted to the statement credited to Bola Oyebamiji, the former Commissioner for Finance under the administration of ...