Mrs Patience Jonathan on Tuesday said she withdrew $100,000 from her unfrozen bank account despite a Stay of Execution motion filed by the Economic and Financial...
Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN) has opted to challenge the guilty plea entered by four companies alleged to have laundered a sum of $15.591milion, which Mrs Patience...
The whistle blower policy has again paid off as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday recovered another N4billion suspected to be proceeds of...
President Muhammadu Buhari’s whistle-blower policy has continued to prove effective as another N250million has been uncovered in Balogun Market, Lagos, following a tip-off by a whistle...
The wife of erstwhile president, Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, may have made a withdrawal from her formerly frozen account with the Skye Bank, which was recently unfrozen...
A Federal High Court judge accused of corruption by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia, has challenged the jurisdiction of an Ikeja...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Lagos zone, on Friday evening uncovered another large sum of cash to the tune of about N448,850,000 The discovery suspected...
There is an ongoing meeting at Aso Villa, Abuja between Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and all heads of prosecuting agencies. The agencies are the Economic and...
By Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu… Not many had expected the judicial outcome of some of the cases brought against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), before courts,...
Wife of Former President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience has floored the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission at the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos. The court on...
There are emerging reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has detained former Niger State governor, Babangida Aliyu. Aliyu it was learnt is undergoing...
An Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) staff, Christian Nwosu, on Wednesday pleaded guilty to accepting N30million as bribe from the N23billion allegedly stolen by erstwhile petroleum...
Not satisfied with the judgment ordering the unfreezing of Mike Ozekhome’s N75 million account, the EFCC has gone to the Court of Appeal to challenge the...
To repatriate $550million loot traced to ex-Head of State Gen. Sani Abacha, the Federal Government is to resolve two legal hurdles in the United States. The...
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday denied issuing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) an arrest warrant against former Attorney General of the...
The Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday ruled in favour of Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN) in the case between him and the Economic Financial Crimes...
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...