THE National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) will go after owners and operators of supermarkets and confectionery selling cookies, biscuits and other products laced with illicit substances. Rtd Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa gave the warning while receiving further briefing on follow-up…
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission detained the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio after he attempted to bribe the Chairman of the anti-graft agency, Abdulrasheed Bawa, SaharaReporters has learnt. Sources told SaharaReporters on Friday that Akpabio and five…
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan Zonal Office, today Friday, April 23, 2021, arrested one Ayomide Samuel Adebowale who trades in bitcoin for his alleged involvement in cyber crimes Ayomide along with four others were picked up from…
A director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs serving in the Directorate of Technical Cooperation In Africa, Suleiman Momoh, made a handwritten agreement to borrow money from one of his friends, while raising N10 million bribe which he paid to…
THE Federal Government through the Ministry of Interior says it was adopting measures to address passport scarcity and racketeering by Immigration officials across the country. 10 special passport centres will now be opened in the coming weeks to fast-track booklets…
SOME officials of the Ministry of Defence, Ship House, Abuja, are at the heart of a major fraud revolving round how part of the $1 billion Excess Crude Account Funds meant to purchase arms for the military were paid to…
NIGERIA’S commercial hub of Lagos is preparing to establish its own electricity market to ensure more reliable power supply. The plan, if implemented, would be a first in Nigeria, where energy generation, transmission and distribution is overseen by the central…
THE National Economic Council (NEC) has dismissed claims that N60 billion was printed to augment the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) for March. Mr Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice…
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited, NIGCOMSAT, have vowed to work together to ensure that the Anti-graft agency’s job of getting rid of corruption is enhanced through the deployment of cutting-edge satellite communication technology…
OPERATIVES of the Port Harcourt Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested 11(eleven) suspected fraudsters, in a sting operation covering Rivers and Bayelsa States. They were arrested on Wednesday, April 21, 2021. The suspects are: Eliot Chuku; Oghenero Tega; …
