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EFCC Politics, National Politics, North-West, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency, Top Stories
Thursday, September 12th, 2013
…says his real age blurs his memory Defending her integrity, the Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Mrs. Farida Waziri on Wednesday blasted ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo describing him as a blatant liar and a peddler of “arrant falsehood.” Obasanjo had in an interview attacked the integrity and the tenure of Mrs […]
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EFCC Politics, Governors, Latest Politics, National Politics
Monday, September 2nd, 2013
As PDP moves to wield big stick against splinter group From FRED ITUA, Abuja and DESMOND MGBOH, KanoTwenty-four hours after the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) held its mini national convention which produced a splinter group, the Federal Government is set to punish the arrowheads. These are the seven governors who led other chieftains of the […]
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EFCC Politics, Headlines, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers, State News
Friday, August 9th, 2013
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is set to quiz the Rivers State House of Assembly Speaker, Otelemaba Amachree, and other principal officers loyal to Governor Rotimi Amaechi. The commission has already interrogated the embattled Majority Leader, Mr. Chidi Lloyd, who has just been granted bail over an attempted murder charge, assault, intent to maim […]
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EFCC Politics, Headlines, Oil Politics
Friday, August 9th, 2013
A legal practitioner, Mr. Ajibola Oluyede, who is a counsel for a subsidy fraud suspect, Mr. Seun Ogunbambo, on Thursday, described the declaration by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission of Ogunbambo as a wanted person as unconstitutional. Oluyede said in a statement that there was no basis for declaring his client wanted because there […]
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EFCC Politics, Latest Politics, Rivers, State News
Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
OPERATIVES of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission stormed Rivers State on Monday and started quizzing public office holders in the state over a yet-to-be mentioned financial impropriety. Already, the EFCC investigators had quizzed the embattled Majority Leader of the state House of Assembly, Chidi Lloyd, over the finances of the House, our correspondents learnt. […]
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EFCC Politics, Headlines
Thursday, July 25th, 2013
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned two suspects, Joseph Badmus and Akeju Bola, before Justice Mudashiru Oniyangi of the FCT High Court, Abuja on 30 counts of conspiracy, impersonation and forgery. The suspects were alleged to have been parading themselves as EFCC officials and defrauding unsuspecting victims of millions of naira under the […]
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EFCC Politics, Headlines
Sunday, July 14th, 2013
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday arraigned one Omoike Emmanuel, a suspected internet fraudster before Justice E. F. Ikponmwen of Edo State High Court, Benin, on an 8-count charge bordering on internet fraud and obtaining by false pretence. One of the counts read; “that you, Omoike Emmanuel on or about the 29th […]
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EFCC Politics, Headlines, Jigawa, State News, Top Stories
Friday, July 12th, 2013
Aminu Sule Lamido, the 34-year-old son of the Jigawa State Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido, who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for offences bordering on money laundering, was on Friday convicted by Justice Fatu Riman of the Federal High Court, Kano and ordered to forfeit 25 per cent of the undeclared […]
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EFCC Politics, House, Legislature
Thursday, July 4th, 2013
By CALEB AYANSINA ABUJA—The House of Representatives, yesterday, dispelled media report on the recently approved merger of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, ICPC, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, by the Federal Government. The House said such a merger could not have been sealed without the National Assembly being […]
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EFCC Politics, Latest Politics
Tuesday, June 25th, 2013
By IKECHUKWU NNOCHIRI ABUJA — Justice Peter Kekemeke of an Abuja High Court has ordered the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar to arrest the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Ibrahim Lamorde, for disobeying a valid court order. Justice Kekemeke directed that the EFCC boss and an operative of the […]
