Tag: EFCC

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, says the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, should resign for “betraying the confidence reposed ...

President Bola Tinubu has ordered a thorough probe of the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation led by Betta Edu. The Minister ...

A former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development Sadiya Umar Farouq has written to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested and detained the National Co-ordinator and Chief Executive Officer of the National Social Investment Programme ...

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, on Thursday, December 21, 2023 commissioned the new Ilorin Zonal ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has alerted Nigerians to how fraudsters are swapping automated teller machine (ATM) cards of innocent people. ...

A video, code-named: “EFCC and Army Wahala” gaining traction across the social media, once again, compels the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to ...

Students of the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife in Osun State have protested the arrest of their colleagues by operatives of the Economic and ...

Point of Sales, POS, operators in Kwara State, under their umbrella body, Kwara Association of Professional Point of Sale Agents, KAPPSA, have expressed ...

The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction of two persons over offences bordering on internet ...

The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Ola Olukoyede, has directed staff members of the commission to declare their ...

Anti-corruption Watch Group, AcWaG, has advised newly appointed Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, chairman, Bar Ola Olukoyede, to address internal imbalance within ...

Newly confirmed Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Ola Olukoyede, has revealed Nigeria lost N2.9 trillion between 2018 -2020 to contract ...

President Bola Tinubu has appointed Ola Olukoyede as Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, announced this ...

The immediate past Commissioner of Works and Transport in Kwara State, Hon. Rotimi Illiyasu has denied being invited or detained by the Economic ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has called on Real Estate Agents to join hands with the Commission in the fight against ...

The Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) has commenced probe of chairman of Kano State Public Complaint and Anti-Corruption Commission (PCACC), Muhyi Rimingado. This ...

Kwara state government on Friday decried the illegal activities of miners operating in different parts of the state disclosing that 230 of them ...

The House of Representatives has issued an order for the apprehension of Haruna Kolo, a former desk officer overseeing the Integrated Payroll and ...

The Ilorin Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, led by its Chairman, Barrister Kamaldeen Gambari on Monday, August 7,

Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ilorin branch has called on all members of the association to boycott the Ilorin zonal command of the Economic ...

A suspected fraudster trading under the business name “Capital Plus Investment Services Ltd”, owned by Paul Demudia Eigbefoh is on the run after ...

Residents of Kwara State have raised the alarm on alleged extortion by Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC). The residents expressed their lamentation at ...

Acting Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulkarim Chukkol, has tasked fresh cadets from the Commission’s Academy to steer clear of corrupt ...

Operatives of the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested 13 Chinese Nationals over offences bordering on ...

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has identified illegal mining activities as a major threat against economic prosperity as well as crime against ...

The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, arraigned an Ilorin based associate pastor with the Living ...

Following Tuesday, June 14, 2023, suspension of Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa, as Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission by the Federal ...

  The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested the suspended chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over allegations of abuse ...

President Bola Tinubu has approved the indefinite suspension from office of the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), AbdulRasheed Bawa, ...

The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) on Thursday in Ilorin grilled ex-Ekiti Governor Kayode Fayemi for alleged N4 billion fraud. Ilorin zonal ...

Zamfara State Governor Bello Matawalle is under probe for mismanaging N70 billion, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said yesterday. It said ...

The Zonal Commander, Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Michael Nzekwe, has decried the rising cases of internet ...

The newly deployed  Customs Area Controller in Kwara State Command, Comptroller Kehinde Ilesanmi has paid a courtesy visit to all the sister agencies ...

The operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission were seen at some areas in Akure South and Akure North Local Government Areas ...

The Auditor General for Local Government, Yobe state, Alhaji Idris Yahaya, has been sentenced to five years in prison for criminal misappropriation to ...

Justice Adebayo Yusuf of the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin has sentenced a 24-year-old fashion designer, Muhammed Ayub and two others to ...

The Economic and Financial Crime Commission has arrested 19 people suspected of vote buying in Katsina, Kano, Benue and the Federal Capital Territory. The ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has intercepted some N32,400,000 suspected to be have been set aside for vote-buying in Lagos.  In ...

Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Wednesday, granted an interim forfeiture of 14 properties in Lagos, Abuja ...

Over 120 Anti-corruption Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have given the Inspector-General of Police a seven-day ultimatum to effect the court order that committed ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested and sent to prison Senator representing Delta North in the National Assembly, Peter Nwaoboshi, ...

An operations manager of a leading commercial bank in Abuja central area was on Monday arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned a former vice-chancellor, Professor Ibrahim Garba, and the bursar, Ibrahim Usman, of the Ahmadu ...

Former Director-General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Doyin Okupe has claimed that the Department of State Service’s decision to rearrest him ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has concluded plans to conduct sale of properties which are subject of Final Forfeiture Orders. The ...

The Vice President of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo, has opened up on how President Muhammadu Buhari stopped Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from investigating him. ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Thursday, said it had so far recovered over N30 billion from the corruption activities surrounding the ...

Former group executive director, Harmony Holdings Limited, Ilorin Kwara State, Otunba Bayo Sanni, has clarified that he is not involved in any case ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Sunday denied reports that it is recruiting. The anti-graft agency gave the denial in a ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it secured 3,440 convictions on financial and cyber crimes across the country from January to ...

The senator representing Uyo Senatorial District, Bassey Akpan has been sentenced to 42 years in prison without an option of fine for corruption. ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to rehabilitate Nigerians prosecuted for internet fraud. The programme targets youths that have been ...

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Friday arrested 18 suspected Internet fraudsters, popularly called Yahoo Boys, in Ilorin, the Kwara ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has arraigned one Ijeboi Dennis and Obade Monday Christian before Justice Abubakar Baba Shani of the ...

Kogi State Government has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of illegal harassment of its officials “over a bail-out fund allegedly ...

The Federal High Court, sitting in FCT, Abuja has put aside the contempt proceedings and all the directives of conviction for contempt against ...

A Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday convicted the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa, for ...

Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), on Thursday, tasked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to arrest and ...

Justice Uche Agomoh of the Federal High Court, Ibadan, Oyo State on Friday, convicted and sentenced the trio of Olukoya Emmanuel Adeyemi, Qoreeb ...