The House of Representatives wants persons convicted of economic and financial crimes to be jailed for 20 years. This is part of the details of the...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has leveled a fresh corruption charge against the erstwhile Chief Judge of Enugu State, Justice Innocent Umezulike. The anti-graft...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Kaduna Zonal office, has arrested one Hussaini Mohammed of Tanko Road Barakallahu Kaduna State. His arrest follows a petition...
Former Oyo State governor, Rasheed Ladoja’s ex-aide, Adewale Atanda, on Friday testified before the Federal High Court in Lagos on how his erstwhile boss diverted part...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has invited more senior officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria as part of investigations into an alleged foreign exchange...
A senator is the subject of a massive probe for not executing N4 billion contracts awarded by the government of Delta State, The Nation learnt yesterday....
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday arraigned a serving member of the House of Representatives, Nse Bassey Ekpenyong before Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of...
By Sonala Olumhense… Six weeks ago, in this column, I diagnosed the Muhammadu Buhari government as having fallen. With the leaking to the press last week of an explosive...
Mrs. Zainab Ibrahim-Kokobili, a relationship manager with Matiama, Abuja branch of First Bank Plc, on Wednesday testified how Chief Raymond Dokpesi, got a whooping sum of...
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s (NNPC’s) former Group Managing Director, Andrew Yakubu, has withdrawn his fundamental human rights enforcement suit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)...
Akintokunbo A Adejumo… I have written many times on a singularity, or perhaps we should call it a genetic aberration or bane of development and progress...
Nigeria Governors’ Forum has described as outright mischief the stories in the media that there were illegalities in the disbursement of the Paris Club loan refund....
The presidency and the Senate, may be heading for another fresh showdown, over the refusal of the latter to approve a $200 million World Bank loan...
Former governor of Adamawa State, Mr Bala Ngilari, who was on March 6, sentenced to five years in prison without an option of fine, was on...
Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to without delay recover the stolen London/Paris loan refund money...
Barely two weeks after the Senate rejected the approval of Ibrahim Magu as substantive chairman for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) the commission’s report...
Some N481bn may have been stolen from the 2016 budget through padding, according to the content of a letter written by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project,...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission will next week apply to court for arrest warrants against some suspects named in the charges relating to the $1.1bn...
The Senate says it’s position on EFCC’s acting chairman, Ibrahim Magu, and why it refused to confirm his appointment has been justified. Spokesman of the Senate,...
There were indications yesterday that President Muhammadu Buhari will insist on Mr. Ibrahim Magu becoming the substantive chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)...
The office of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) is now in possession of the Department of State Security (DSS) report that sealed the fate of...
The erstwhile Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Mr Andrew Yakubu, has been granted bail in the sum of N300 million. Yakubu,...
The raging controversy between the Senate and the Presidency is yet to abate over the nomination of Mr. Ibrahim Magu as the substantive chairman of the...
More information has come to light as to how about N19 billion was paid out to consultants by the governors from the first tranche of the...
By Charly Boy… Lately, I have been thinking and visualizing all the jagbajantis going on in the legislative branch of our government and Na vex just...
Two major oil companies in the country MRS Limited and Capital Oil and Gas Limited may soon go before the DSS, and the EFCC over NNPC’s...
A 37-year-old alleged internet fraudster identified as Akintunde Vincent Abiodun, a.k.a. Christopher Williams has been slammed with a total of 36-year jail term after the Economic...
The fourth prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia, on Friday told a Lagos State High Court, Ikeja, how her bank account was...
A Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja presided over by Justice Nnamdi Dimgba on Friday, turned down the application of Abba Moro, former interior minister,...
A Lagos Federal High Court judge, Justice Muslim Hassan, has taken his hands off the case of alleged N4.9billion fraud involving former Minister of Aviation, Femi...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday arraigned the former Chief Judge of Enugu State, Professor Innocent Azubike Umezulike at the Federal High Court...
When the first rejection was announced, I had sent in a commentary and now I have been further vindicated. We put whoever is the Chairman of...
By Sam Ibemere… ‘Buhari don fall our hand,’ a friend belched as we sat glued to a Nigerian television network that was offering a ‘free show’...
Four consolidated bills which seek to remove the power of appointing the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from the President, passed second...
The former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Andrew Yakubu, will on Thursday be arraigned before a Federal High Court in Abuja...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) appears not ready to give up its seeming investigation of former President Goodluck Jonathan. This is as the anti-graft...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Kaduna zonal office, on Tuesday, intercepted a sum of N49 million cash at the Kaduna Airport following...
Four more suspects have been grilled over the investigation of the N19billion illegally deducted from the London-Paris Club loan refund. Besides, about N500million of the cash...
Weeks after it recovered over $9.7miilion from the Kaduna home of former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Engr. Andrew Yakubu, the...
The EFCC has finalised plans to arraign former Chief Executive Officer, State House Medical Centre, Abuja, Dr. Fortunate Fiberesima before an FCT High Court for alleged...
All is not well within the camp of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) caucus in the National Assembly, particularly the Senate. Senators elected on the...
Former Group Managing Director (GMD) of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mr Andrew Yakubu, has filed a suit of N1billion damages and compensation against the Economic...
THE House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions has summoned the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami; Minister of Finance, Kemi...
A team of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has ransacked the palatial home of George Turnah, popularly known as the godson to former President...
Former Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) Mohammed Adoke, has alleged that the EFCC is deliberately suppressiing facts at its disposal in efforts to portray him to...
If there is anyone who feels that former President Olusegun Obasanjo is a serial failure in government, it is Ayodele Fayose, the incumbent governor of Ekiti...
Moroophat, the wife of a former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, is to lose her property to the federal government. Justice Y. Halilu...
Former Customs boss, Abdullahi Dikko, who is currently embroiled in a N40billion fraud case is to forfeit 17 exotic vehicles recovered from a warehouse allegedly owned...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has told a Federal High Court in Lagos it is dropping corruption charges against four parties in a case...
Former minister for Aviation, Sen Stella Oduah is once again in troubled waters, as a Federal High Court in Lagos has put a freeze on 21...
