Former governor of Enugu State, Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani was arraigned yesterday and later remanded in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on the orders of an Enugu High Court pending a bail application which is due for hearing on Wednesday next week. The anti-corruption body arraigned the former governor in the […]
The incoming and returning state governors got a warning from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC: to steer clear of money laundering and similar crimes. Chairman of the Commission, Mrs. Farida Waziri at a symposium for “New and Returning Governors of the Federal Republic of Nigeria” in Abuja charged the governors to shun safe […]
Former Managing Director of Bank PHB Plc, Mr Francis Atuche and his wife were separately arraigned yesterday before an Ikeja High court for conspiracy and stealing of N32.2 billion belonging to Bank BHB Plc while Atuche held sway as the chief executive officer . Atuche, who was arraigned before Justice S.A. Onigbanjo alongside two others, […]
NINE outgoing state governors across the country who have enjoyed immunity for the past four or eight years may soon be guests of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, as their tenures expire on May 29. Sources at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, told Vanguard, weekend, that the anti-graft agency was going […]
AS the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) plans to re-arraign the former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Dr. Erastus Akingbola at a Lagos High Court tomorrow on charges similar to those he has been facing before a Federal High Court, Lagos, Justice Charles Archibong of the Federal High Court, acting on the […]
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday in a statement made available to The Guardian, declared former Managing Director of Bank PHB, Francis Atuche and wife of detained former Chief Executive Officer of Intercontinental Bank , Mrs. Anthonia Akingbola, wanted over alleged theft of N56 billion depositors’ funds. The former Chief Financial Officer of Bank […]
Soldiers from the 2 Division, Nigerian Army, Ibadan, said over 108 hoodlums and political thugs were arrested at the last gubernatorial and state Assembly elections. Dangerous weapons such as machetes, dynamites, axe, dane guns, locally made pistols, 7.62mm live rounds of ammunitions, charms, cartridges, mobile phones were recovered from the hoodlums, among them women in […]
A Federal High Court in Lagos State on Monday ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to immediately release Elizabeth, the wife of a former Managing Director of Bank PHB, Francis Atuche. Elizabeth had been in detention since May 3 when she was arrested by EFCC operatives in Lagos. In her ruling on two […]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) moved swiftly to respond to claims of underhand occurrences in the last presidential election by raising four points which it believed would easily knock off the petition by the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive change (CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari had on Friday filed a notice at the […]
DUTSE — The Jigawa State Government has account to prosecute the recently-concluded general elections in the state, describing the allegations about such expenditure by the opposition as spurious. The state Commissioner for Local Government, Alhaji Salisu Mamuda, reacting to insinuations, said there was no iota of truth in the allegation which he described as not […]
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