THE Senate President, Godswill Akpabio has said that the National Assembly will be reviewing the act establishing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Akpbabio stated this while noting that the EFCC was more of a persecuting agency than a prosecution agency. Speaking during the confirmation of Olu Olukayode and Mohammed Hamajoda, as …
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THE Senate has confirmed Ola Olukoyede as the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). It also confirmed the appointment of Muhammad Hammajoda as the Secretary of the anti-graft agency. Trojan News Media earlier reported that Olukoyede was at the National Assembly with some of the Management staff …
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THE newly confirmed chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede on Wednesday, visited President Bola Tinubu at the Aso Rock Villa in Abuja. Trojan News Media reports that Olukoyede visited Tinubu in the company of the new EFCC Executive Secretary, Muhammad Hammajoda. This was confirmed in a statement …
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OPERATIVES of the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested an unlicensed foreign exchange dealer, Chike Nosa Agada for an alleged N2bn fraud. The anti-graft agency in a statement on Monday said that Agada, a 37-year-old native of Udi Local Government Area of Enugu …
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THE Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction of a 26-year-old forex trader: Kolawole Temidayo Joshua and two others for offences bordering on internet fraud. The two others are Abdullahi Isiak and one Daniel Roland Orji. The convicts: Joshua, Isiak and Orji …
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THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned Aisha Alkali Wakil (a.k.a Mama Boko Haram) alongside Tahiru Saidu Daura and Prince Lawal Shoyode w before Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri, on two -count charges bordering on conspiracy and cheating to the tune of N150,000,000.00 (One …
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THE Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, September 28, 2023 secured the conviction and sentencing of Goni Muhammad and Seidu Seriki Hamani to seven years imprisonment, for offering fake gold belonging to former First Lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan to their victims. They were …
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JUSTICE P. I . Ajoku of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Tuesday October 10, 2023, convicted and sentenced Chika Eguma Ekwodu, an undergraduate student of Rivers State University to two years imprisonment for impersonation and obtaining money by false pretences. The offence contravenes Section …
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THE Enugu Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has secured the conviction of three Internet fraudsters. The Convicts were first arraigned on September 29, 2023, before Justice Nnadi O. Dimgba of the Federal High Court sitting in Awka, Anambra State on one -count separate charges bordering on …
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OPERATIVES of the Gombe Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested one Ibrahim Abubakar, managing director of Shariff Agric and General Service in Jos, Plateau State, for stealing N57,550,000.00( Fifty Seven Million, Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira only). He was arrested on Friday, October …
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