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EFCC recovered $9bn during my tenure – Waziri

Mrs. Farida Waziri File copy       The sacked Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mrs. Farida Waziri, on Thursday in Abuja said the commission recovered $9bn from corrupt officials during her three and a half years tenure as the commission’s helmsman. She said this during her handing over ceremony to the […]

EFCC files 27 additional charges against Daniel

Abeokuta – The EFCC on Monday in Abeokuta filed additional 27 charges against former Gov. Gbenga Daniel of Ogun, who is currently on trial for corrupt practices. Daniel had on Oct. 6 pleaded not guilty to the 16-count charges of alleged stealing of public funds, illegal deduction of local government funds and diversion of public […]

How Car Gift Landed Farida in Hot Water

Wednesday’s sack of Mrs. Farida Waziri as the executive chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commis-sion (EFCC) was set in motion by a car gift, THISDAY has learnt. Sources said the curiosity of President Goodluck Jonathan was “aroused” sometime last year when he learnt that Waziri had bought a car as gift for a […]

EFCC: The man, Ibrahim Lamorde

FOR Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), this is like second coming having served as Acting Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in the period former anti-corruption czar, Nuhu Ribadu was spirited away on course at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, prior to the […]

BY EMMA UJAH, CLIFFORD NDUJIHE, HENRY UMORU, INALEGWU SHAIBU, BEN AGANDE OSCARLINE ONWUEMENYI, PAUL ODENYI ABUJA — NIGERIANS, yesterday, hailed President Goodluck Jonathan’s removal of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Chairman, Mrs. Farida Waziri, saying it was long overdue. Waziri was eased out of the commission after three-and-a half years on the saddle with […]

Why Farida Waziri was sacked

FURTHER details have emerged as to the reasons that led President Goodluck Jonathan to relieve the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs Farida Waziri, of her position. Sources told the Nigerian Tribune that the final straw that compelled President Jonathan to effect the removal had to do with a representation of […]

I heard about my removal on TV –Waziri

The removed Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes, Mrs. Farida Waziri, on Wednesday said she heard the news of her sacking on the television. In a brief telephone chat with one of our correspondents late on Wednesday, Waziri also said she was yet to be formally communicated. She, however, added that she would determine […]

EFCC stalls Daniel’s trial

• OGD Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has told an Ogun State High Court sitting in Abeokuta that it has prepared more criminal charges against former governor of the state, Otunba Gbenga Daniel. The EFCC counsel, Rotimi Jacobs, stated this yesterday while asking the […]

EFCC arraigns 40 suspects over N4.5bn pension scam

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC has re-arraigned Dr. Sani Teidi Shuaibu, a former Director, Pension Administration in the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, and nine other accused persons. They were arraigned yesterday, Monday 14th November alongside 30 companies before a Federal High Court in Abuja in an […]

‘Why AGF rejected 2007 audited account of EFCC’

THE office of the Auditor-General of the Federation (AGF) rejected the 2007 audited account submitted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in 2009 because it lacked the mandatory domestic report. This was made known at a news conference in Abuja, on Sunday, by the Director, Extra-Ministerial Affairs at the AGF’s office, Mr Hyacinth Obilor. […]