THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has tracked N30 billion of the N44 billion moved from the accounts of the National Social Investment Programme Agency (NSIPA). The multiple accounts to which the funds were moved by some NSIPA officials have been frozen by the anti-graft agency as part of an ongoing probe. …
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THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested and detained the suspended National Coordinator and Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of the National Social Investment Programme Agency, NSIPA, Halima Shehu. Trojan News reports that the arrest came a few hours after President Bola Tinubu approved her suspension over the suspicious movement …
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THE former minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouk, is expected to appear before the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, operatives on Wednesday (today) for questioning over alleged N37.1 billion fraud. The development comes as EFCC arrested the National Social Investment Programme Agency, Halima Shehu, …
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A chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Garus Haruna Gololo, has called on the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to arrest, probe and prosecute all former ministers indicted under President Muhammadu Buhari. Newsextra24 reports that Gololo stated this in an interview with …
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EXECUTIVE Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede has called for greater fiscal discipline, transparency and efficient management of resources as ways of deepening and strengthening local government’s administration in Nigeria. He made the call recently in Kaduna at a Two-Day Workshop organized by the …
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OPERATIVES of the Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested sixteen( 16) suspected internet fraudsters at fifth Chucker Polo Club, Marabban Jos, Kaduna, Kaduna state. THEY were arrested on Thursday, December 27, 2023 following actionable intelligence on their suspected involvement in internet-related offences. The …
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THE Ibadan Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentencing of thirty-seven (37) internet fraudsters before Justices Ladiran Akintola, O.A. Olajide, J.O. Adeyemi, Bayo Taiwo and M.O. Ishola of the Oyo State High Court, Ibadan; Justice Uche Agomoh of the Federal High Court sitting …
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THE Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, has expressed support for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in its crusade against economic and financial crimes and other acts of corruption, stressing that the Commission is pivotal to President Bola Tinubu’s plan to entrench …
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OPERATIVES of the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have re-arrested a convicted Italian, Floriana De-Stefani, for failing to obey a court order upon her conviction by Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos. The judge had, on October 7, 2022, …
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JUSCTICE M.A Shambu of Bauchi State High Court, sitting in Bauchi on Thursday, December 14, 2023 convicted and sentenced one Ibrahim Abdullahi to one year imprisonment for stealing the sum of N30,000( Thirty Thousand Naira only) through fraudulent swapping of an Automated Teller Machine, ATM, card. Abdullahi was arraigned on two-count charges of stealing by the …
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