Operatives of the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested a former Minister of Commerce and Industry, Charles Chukwuemeka Ugwuh, for an alleged conspiracy and fraud to the tune of N3.6 billion. This…
The trial of a former speaker of the Lagos House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, over money laundering was on Monday, stalled because Justice Mohammed Liman of the Federal High Court did not sit. The case which was first fixed for…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has convicted and sentenced one Ekwue Joshua Femi to one year imprisonment for defrauding an American, Sheedy Morgan, of $20,000. He was jailed by Justice O.O. Abike Fadipe of the Special Offences Court…
Godwin Emefiele, former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, was reportedly released from the custody of the Department of State Services, DSS, on Thursday and subsequently picked up by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. However, when…
Femi Falana, a human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, has faulted the appointment of the chairmen of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC. Speaking on…
The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction of a 26-year-old forex trader: Kolawole Temidayo Joshua and two others for offences bordering on internet fraud. The two others are Abdullahi Isiak and…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned Aisha Alkali Wakil also known as Mama Boko Haram before Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri, on two-count charge bordering on conspiracy and cheating to the tune…
A 40-year-old carpenter, Sunday Agada, was on Monday docked in a Karu Grade I Area Court in Abuja, for allegedly swindling his client of N400,000. The police charged Agada with criminal breach of trust, cheating and criminal misappropriation. The defendant,…
Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos State, has convicted one Lawrence Success Karinate, a Peer-to-Peer, P2P, crypto trader, for computer-related fraud. Karinate was prosecuted by the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial…
The Navy Holdings Limited (NHL) on Monday, dismissed allegations of corruption against its Executive Director, Operations, Commodore Gabriel Aligwe. The NHL Public Relations Officer, Commander Blessed Nuhu, in a statement on Monday, in Abuja, described the allegations as malicious. The…
