AHEAD of 2023 Presidential and General elections, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC ) has said that it would work in synergy with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to intensify war against vote buying during the polls. Speaking with Journalists yesterday in Abuja after the 2023 budget …
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Former EFCC Acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, has described his exit from the anti-corruption agency as corruption fighting back. Mr Magu made the assertion on Sunday in Abuja at an award ceremony organised in his honour by Northern Female Students Association. “I am a victim of corruption fighting back; but I …
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EFCC logo and Sapphire Scents MD, Wale Jana The Managing Director of Sapphire Scents, Adewale Aladejana, popularly known as Wale Jana is currently swimming in troubled waters as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, arraigned him before Justice M. A Madugu of a Federal High Court sitting in Bwari, …
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The Economic Financial Crime Commission has been called out again by Ibadan youths, barely forty-eight hours after youths in Warri, Delta state held a protest against them. Youth in Ibadan, Oyo state took to the streets yesterday October 6, to demand an end to EFCC because of the maltreatment being …
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A total of nine law professors and three major lawyers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC are among 62 lawyers conferred with the prestigious rank of the Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs). They were honoured with the rank by the Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee (LPPC) under the chairmanship of …
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Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Abdulrasheed Bawa has appealed to Nigerians to shun fraud and the likes. The senior police officer counselled youths in particular to avoid internet fraud and join the EFCC to combat monetary crimes. Bawa gave the advise in his speech on “Inherent …
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THE leadership and members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic, Federal Polytechnic Ado-Ekiti chapter, has taken to the street to express their displeasure over what they described as illegal detention of their members by the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC). The aggrieved …
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, has revealed that the presiding Justice of the Court of Appeal, Kano Division, Honourable Justice Ita Mbaba, was not under investigations. This was disclosed in a statement, by the EFCC Head, Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, on Wednesday. The commission dismissed some media reports …
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Justice Muhammed Sani of the Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin has convicted and sentenced a Lokoja- born musician, Onojah Emmanuel Samuel, and two others to twenty years imprisonment for offences bordering on cybercrime. Samuel was convicted on Monday, September 12, 2022, alongside Victor Atsumbe Kadiyamo and Jejelowo Segun, after …
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Justices Adebayo Yusuf of the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin and Muhammed Sani of the Federal High Court sitting in Ilorin have convicted two siblings – Shekoni Taofeek and Shekoni Damilare, alongside Adegbe Thankgod for offences bordering on cybercrime and retention of proceeds of unlawful activities. They were convicted …
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