GROUP, friends and family members of Friday Audu, an Abuja-based businessman being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes and Commission (EFCC) have accused the commission of mounting a campaign of calumny through the deployment of falsehoods and prejudcial actions to compromise his trial. They particularly accused the commission of …
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THE Police Command in Niger says it has arrested three suspects, who posed as Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) operatives, abducted and robbed students of Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) University, Lapai. A statement by the Command’s Spokesperson, SP Wasiu Abiodun, on Friday in Minna, indicated that two informants who …
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A Federal High Court in Kaduna has sentenced social media content creator Muhammad Kabir to six months in prison for defacing Nigerian currency in a viral video. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), in a statement on Thursday, confirmed Kabir’s arrest on May 13, 2025, in the Tudun Wada …
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OFFICERS of the Port Harcourt Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Wednesday, May 14, 2025 arrested 31 suspected internet fraudsters at different locations in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Their arrest followed credible intelligence that linked them to fraudulent internet activities. Items recovered from them include …
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Justice Nkeonye Maha of the Oyo State Federal High Court, sitting in Ibadan has convicted and sentenced one Ayorinde Festus Morakinyo to jail for illegal trading of naira notes. The convict was arraigned by the Ibadan Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on March 26, 2025 …
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OPERATIVES from the Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have apprehended 17 suspected internet fraudsters, popularly known as ‘Yahoo Yahoo’ or ‘Yahoo Boys’ The individuals, Naija News understands, were arrested during coordinated operations in Ilorin and the Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State. The suspects were …
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THE Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, May 8, 2025 arraigned one Ntai Bagshaw and his company, Terraworks Limited before Justice I. O. Ijelu of the Lagos State High Court, sitting in Ikeja, Lagos for fraud. They are being prosecuted on a two-count …
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OPERATIVES of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), in Lagos, have arrested two Chinese nationals and six Nigerians for alleged involvement in illegal mining activities in the Ogere area of Ogun. This was contained in a statement issued by the Commission in Abuja on Saturday. The suspects are Zhang …
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THE Maiduguri Zonal Director of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Commander of the EFCC, CE Aisha A. T Habib has called for enhanced sharing of intelligence and referral of cases to the Commission in order to help sanitise the nation’s financial space and get rid of economic and …
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THE Gombe Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have secured the conviction and sentence of seven fraudsters for offences of cheating and obtaining under false pretences. The convicts are: Yusuf. O. Muhammed, Joseph Opeoluwa, Samuel Chukwudi Okonkwo, Rotimi Tobi Samuel, Oladimeji Mubarak , Blessed Johnson and …
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