FOLLOWING the uproar that trailed the planned amendment of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Act to make provision for a retired justice of the Supreme Court or Appeal Court to head the agency, Chairman, House Committee on Media, Mohammad Zakari, has dismissed as “untrue” insinuations that the move was aimed at sacking the current […]
By Daniel Eteghe & Okebugwu Chinomnso Following the alleged plan to remove the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs. Farida Waziri, by the House of Representatives through the amendment of the EFCC Act, 2004, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal yesterday said that the House would seek […]
By Austin Ogwuda, Asaba OPERATIVES of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested a banker with one of the new generation banks in Asaba, Delta State for allegedly inflating the payroll of the state government with ghost workers. The banker (names withheld) allegedly works with the bank which the Delta government contracted out […]
BY CLIFFORD NDUJIHE, Deputy Political Editor THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was on the offensive last week and penultimate week arraigning former governors it accused of embezzling their states’ funds while in power. Former governors who waded through the anti-graft agency’s familiar stream of arrest, questioning, brief detention (in EFCC’s custody or prison), […]
Erstwhile Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose was on Wednesday arraigned at the Federal High Court, Ado-Ekiti by the officials of the Economic and Financial and Crimes Commission, EFCC, for alleged diversion of Ekiti State fund to the tune of N1.3 billion while in office. The case with number FHC/L/179c/2006, brought before Justice Emmanuel […]
A Federal High Court sitting in Lafia, Nasarawa State has ordered former governor of the state, Aliyu Akwe Doma and eight other accused arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), over money laundering charges to be remanded in the Commission’s custody till tomorrow. The order by the court presided over by Justice Marcel […]
It was alleged yesterday that government might have perfected plans to move against arrowheads of lawmakers who opposed President Goodluck Jonathan’s proposal for virement and the removal of fuel subsidy. It has been confirmed that the Chairman of an ad-hoc committee of the House of Representatives probing the activities of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation […]
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has revealed how the detained immediate past governor of Gombe State, Senator Danjuma Goje, spent N1.9 billion to print 98,000 copies of dictionary for students in the state. The revelation was contained in one of the 18 counts contained in the money laundering and misappropriation of funds charge […]
ABEOKUTA—OSTENSIBLY jolted by the reality of his arraignment, the immediate past governor of Ogun State, Gbenga Daniel, yesterday, arrived High Court 4 around 9;10 am and headed straight to the toilet within the court premises. Arriving in a Toyota Hiace, marked Abuja BR737 BWR flanked by stern-looking EFCC men and his wife, Daniel clad in […]
A former governor of Oyo State, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, was on Tuesday arraigned at the State High Court, Ibadan, accused of misappropriation of state funds, concealment and fraud. Alao-Akala, slammed with 11 counts by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, was arraigned before Justice Mashood Abass, with his former Commissioner for Local Government, who is […]
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