The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday said that Lagos indigenes alerted it about the alleged N127 million fraud at the Lagos State Scholarship Board. Our Correspondent reports that Mr Usman Adamu, an investigator with the anti-graft agency,…
The Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has secured the conviction of Temitope Oluwasanmi and Augustine Olayinka before Justice Mojisola Dada of a Special Offences Court, Lagos State High Court, Ikeja. The convicts were arraigned in…
Bankole Taiwo, Abeokuta Justice Mohammed Abubakar of the Federal High Court sitting in Abeokuta, on Thursday, March 4, 2021 convicted and sentenced one Wusu Taiwo Opeyemi to five months imprisonment for criminal impersonation. The offence contravenes section 22(2) (b)(I) and…
Operatives of the Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on March 2, 2021 arrested 13 persons for their alleged involvement in cyber-crime. They are: Idris Ridwan, Shonnaike Adejumobi, Afeez Kareem, Adedire David, Muodozie Patrick, Abidemi…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has called on members of the public to ignore an advert on WhatsApp purportedly seeking to enlist young Nigerians into the anti-graft agency. EFCC’s Head, Media and Publicity, Mr Wilson Uwujaren said, in…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday arraigned a former Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE, Benjamin Ezra Dikki, before Justice Yusuf Halilu of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja on four counts of…
By Ayo Fadimu The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has charged the new Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulraheed Bawa, to re-engineer and restore professionalism in the anti-graft agency. The party in a statement signed by the…
The Nigerian Youth Organisation (NYO) has advised Malam Abdulrasheed Bawa, the new Executive Chairman of Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), to evolve new strategies to combat financial and cyber crime in Nigeria. The National Secretary of NYO, Mr Alamboye…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Gombe zonal office has secured the conviction of one Hassan Abubakar before Justice Abubakar Jauro of Gombe State High Court on 15 count charges bordering on criminal breach of trust. Hassan, who hails…
By Ayo Fadimu The Senate today, Wednesday, February 24, 2021 confirmed the appointment of Abdurasheed Bawa as the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The confirmation was the climax of a screening session that lasted for…
