The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has confirmed the arrest of the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University, Gusau, Prof Magaji Garba in connection with an alleged N260 million contract scam. The anti-graft agency’s spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed the arrest on Monday but did not give further details. The professor was detained by the agency
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Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested 30 suspects for various internet-related offences in Enugu. The agency stated that the young men were arrested at Thinkers Corner Extension following a tip-off on alleged criminal activities which targeted mostly foreigners. Items recovered from the suspects include cash, five cars, laptops and mobile
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Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested three Dubai, United Arab Emirates-based suspected internet fraudsters and 14 others in Lagos. The EFCC’s Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, who disclosed this in a statement in Lagos, said the suspects were arrested on Tuesday and Wednesday at Jakande and Osapa London
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday quizzed the Cross River State Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Mfon Bassey. However, the commission did not disclose why the commissioner, who was picked up from his Calabar residence on Thursday morning was interrogated by his operatives. The Head of EFCC, Uyo Zonal office, Edeh Uchenna, confirmed
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The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on Monday, struck out the money laundering case brought against Abdullahi Babalele, son-in-law to former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar. It would be recalled that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arraigned Babalele on two counts of money laundering in August 2019. Babalele was accused of procuring Bashir Mohammed
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said on Monday at least 140 internet fraudsters had been arrested in Lagos in the last three months. The Zonal Head of EFCC in the state, Abdulrasheed Bawa, who stated this when he featured in a programme on 91.3FM, said 38 suspected fraudsters including seven girls were arrested
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The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, refused to admit as exhibit a document tendered by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in the ongoing trial of a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Andrew Yakubu. Yakubu is being prosecuted by the EFCC on charges bordering on the cash sums of
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday closed its case in the N5,040,950 misappropriation of public funds trial of the deputy speaker of Benue State House of Assembly, Christopher Adaji and the clerk, Torese Agena. The commission closed its case on the matter, which is before Justice S. O. Itodo of the Benue
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Sokoto Zonal Office on Tuesday re-arraigned the duo of Meng Wei Kun and Xui Kuoi, both Chinese, before Justice Saleh Kogo Idrissa of the Federal High Court, Sokoto on three-count charges of conspiracy and offering bribe to a public servant to the tune of N50 million. Before their
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Following the recent tempering of websites in the country by the group, Anonymous, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has disclosed that there were attempts to breach its website. Anonymous, a legion of hackers, had claimed responsibility for hitting the agency’s internet platform. The group also tempered with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)
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Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa said he is a man with integrity and as such has nothing to hide. He was reacting to the allegations of embezzlement of public funds and abuse of office against him, which had prompted the anti-graft agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to invite
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has begun questioning Mudashiru Obasa, speaker of the Lagos state house of assembly, over corruption allegations against him. Wilson Uwujaren, EFCC spokesman, confirmed the development to TheCable. “He responded to an invite from the commission this morning,” he said. Obasa was accused of embezzling public funds and abusing
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Concerned by the spate of spending of public funds in Ebonyi State, a diaspora group, Association of Ebonyi State Indigenes in Diaspora (AESID) has called on anti-graft agencies to monitor closely the sharing of another Covid-19 palliative in the state. The group specifically called on the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Independent Corrupt Practices
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The Nigeria Customs Area Command in Kano has handed over one Sanusi Abdullahi Labaran, arrested as he attempted to smuggle 5,342 Automated Teller Machine cards out of the country, to the Kano Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for further investigation. Custom Area Controller, Kano – Jigawa Command, Nasiru Ahmed who
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission , Ibadan Zonal headquarters , on Friday , arrested 10 suspected internet fraudsters . The suspects are Isaac Ogundayo ; David Ayodele; Etiowe Kelvin ; Seun Afolabi ; Saheed Olalekan ; Oluwatobi Damilola ; Sukanmi Odofin ; Ademola Okunola ; Joseph Damilare and Abass Sodiq . They were said
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