The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has granted bail to former Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, after questioning him for alleged fraudulent cash withdrawals totalling N189bn. Tambuwal, who governed Sokoto State from 2015 to 2023, was invited to the EFCC headquarters in Abuja on Monday, arriving around 11:30 a.m. He …
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THE Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, July 31, 2025, arraigned one Chukwuka Onovo on a one-count charge bordering on stealing to the tune of N42m before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos. The petitioner alleged that …
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Justices H. H Kereng and Abdulhamid Yakubu of the Gombe State High Court sitting in Gombe, Gombe State have convicted and sentenced five fraudsters to various jail terms. The convicts are: Illiyasu Mohammed , Dan Musa , Elisha Elkana, Nasiru Mohammed and Saidu Mohammed Laddo. Mohanmed and Musa were arraigned …
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THE Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ola Olukoyede has tasked the House of Representatives to join hands with the EFCC to make the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, NELFund a model that works. He gave the charge on Tuesday, July 29, 2025 when Members of the House of Representatives Committee on Students Loans, …
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OPERATIVES of the Uyo Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), have arrested 11 suspected illegal miners for engaging in mining activities without requisite licences. Its Spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, said this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. Oyewale said they were arrested on Thursday, at Emem-Asuk …
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OPERATIVES of the Gombe Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday arrested 32 suspected internet fraudsters in Bauchi. Its Spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on Monday. According to him, they were arrested in Sabon Kaura and Gwalameji areas of Bauchi, Bauchi State, following credible …
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THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned Mkor Aondona, suspended special adviser on research and planning to Hyacinth Alia, governor of Benue, for alleged sextortion and cyberbullying. Aondona was arraigned last Wednesday at the federal high court in Lafia, Nasarawa state, on a five-count charge bordering on alleged …
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A United Arab Emirate-based Nigerian businessman, Alhaji Rabiu Auwalu Tijjani, has dragged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) through court for violating his fundamental rights to freedom of movement. The anti-graft agency is joined in the suit N0. FHC/KD/CS/2025 by Mr Ifeanyi Ezeokoli, a businessman as sevond respondent. In …
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The Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, July 22, 2025 presented more witnesses to prove a case of alleged N5,78billion involving the immediate past Governor of Kwara State, Abdulfatah Ahmed, and his former Commissioner for Finance, Ademola Banu. At the resumed hearing of …
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The Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has secured the conviction and sentence of Sadi Zangina, Ahmed Buhari, Khalifa Muazu Aliyu and Olasode Abdulganiu before Justice R.M.Aikawa of the Federal High Court, sitting in Kaduna for fraud. They were prosecuted on a separate one-count charge, bordering on money laundering, impersonation and …
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