Rachid Benmessaoud, Country Director World Bank for Nigeria, has assured the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, of adequate support under the World Bank’s ‘Economic Governance...
The former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has been re-arraigned before a new judge in his N4.9 billion alleged fraud case. He is being prosecuted...
The state governor accused of building a hotel with $3 million of the controversial London-Paris Club loan refund has sneaked into Aso Rock Presidential Villa in...
The former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mohammed Bala, has been granted bail by an FCT High Court. The presiding judge, Justice Abubakar Talba, had...
Detectives have traced $3 million of the controversial London-Paris Club loan refund to a governor, The Nation learnt yesterday. The cash is believed to be part...
The All Progressives Congress national chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has said that politicians hunted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission cannot run away or be...
A former director-general of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Raymond Omatseye, on Thursday breathed a sigh of relief as the Lagos State Court...
The hope of the former group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Andrew Yakubu, to recover the $9.8million forfeited to the Federal Government...
Former minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Bala Mohammed, has been asked to remain in Kuje Maximum Prison over alleged N550million fraud levelled against him...
A Lagos Federal High Court has said that issues formulated by wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience over her $15.5million account frozen by the Economic...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been dragged to court over its re-arrest of former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Senator Bala Mohammed....
Home of the younger brother to former Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke (SAN), was on the wee hours of Sunday...
The Enugu State chapter of Ohanaeze Ndigbo has warned of the consequences of any plot against Senate Deputy President Ike Ekeremadu by the Presidency and the...
The flat 7B, No. 13, Osborne Road, Osborne Towers, Ikoyi Lagos, where the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) uncovered the sums of $43,449,947, £27,800 and...
The EFCC has said that no amount of scare-mongering will dissuade it from “vigorously enforcing its mandate to rid Nigeria of corruption”. The commission was responding...
Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has raised the alarm of alleged plans by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to invade his...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s ex special adviser on Niger Delta, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, has described as false, claims that the Department of State Service (DSS) summoned...
The Cold War between two Nigerian government agencies, the Department of State Security (DSS) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) may soon take another...
A Lagos Federal High Court on Wednesday sanctioned a fresh ex parte application seeking the forfeiture of $5.8M belonging to wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan,...
By Farooq A. Kperogi… It’s great that after much dillydallying President Buhari has finally summoned the intestinal and testicular fortitude to “suspend” “cash-and-carry” SGF Babachir David...
Patience Jonathan now has free access to her $5.9 million as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday withdrew its application to restrain her from...
A fraud charge of N3billion has been levelled against former governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The former...
A suit brought before Lagos Federal High Court by a former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, challenging the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s (EFCC’s)...
A former deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2015 governorship election in Niger State, Alhaji Liman Kantigi, has distanced himself from...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) with the help of the whistle blower policy has so far recovered the sums of N521,815,000.00, $53,272 747.00, £122,890.00, and...
Former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC) party as an amalgamation of pain, anger and desperation. He...
The Bishop of Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, has described as unthinkable how monies running into several billions will be discovered without disclosures...
A Lagos Federal High Court has ordered that the sum of N449, 750,000 the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said it found in an abandoned...
The Peoples Democratic Party has bemoaned that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) which was established to fight corruption now entertains Nigerians with dramas of...
Senate President Bukola Saraki has said that the controversies generated following the discovery of N18billion in an apartment in Ikoyi, Lagos is not good for the...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday searched the apartment of a number of prominent Nigerians who own apartments at the Osborne Towers, Ikoyi....
The Senate leadership is considering two options to overcome constitutional hindrances being projected by administration officials not to seek fresh Senate confirmation for Mr. Ibrahim Magu,...
The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), said he has not been directed by President Muhammadu Buhari to investigate...
By Remi Oyeyemi… The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) led by Mr. Ibrahim Magu is engaged in a game. And it is a game of...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to reveal the identity of the owner of the N13billion found by the...
The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose has cried out that claims the huge amount of cash discovered by the EFCC at an apartment in Ikoyi belongs...
Since the launch of the whistle-blower policy by the federal government, anti-crime agencies, specifically, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has made discoveries of huge...
Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi has denied ownership of the huge sum of cash found in an apartment in Ikoyi area of Lagos State. The Economic...
By Pius Adesanmi… Those who are confounded or surprised that the stash of cash found in Ikoyi – we have at least, hopefully, gone beyond the...
Former Attorney General of the Federation, Mohammed Adoke (SAN), has alleged that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in search of evidence to indict him,...
Governor Nyesome Wike of Rivers State has alleged that the money found by the EFCC at an apartment in Ikoyi area of Lagos State was kept...
Acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, has vowed to continue the fight against corruption no matter who may be offended. Magu...
The controversy trailing the discovery of about N18billion cash in a highbrow Lagos residence by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has widened with claims...
A former chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu has admitted a connection with the Ikoyi property where the EFCC discovered about N18billion...
By Jideofor Adibe… In a lecture in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on “The Role of the Church in the Fight Against Corruption in Nigeria”, the former President...
The $43,449,947, £27,800 and N23,218,000 uncovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission from a home in Ikoyi, Lagos on Wednesday, has been placed on temporary...
A former national chairman of the People’s Democratic Party has been linked to a building in Ikoyi where the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) made...
The whistle blowing policy of the Federal Government seems to be paying off positively as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday found a...
Some lawyers yesterday backed the Presidency’s decision to allow Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to remain in office despite the Senate’s refusal to confirm him....
In the mid-80s when Muhammadu Buhari had a stint as head of the Nigerian government, his reign was hallmarked by war against indiscipline, and most glaringly,...