OPERATIVES of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ilorin Zonal Command Office, and officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, have continued to monitor banks and financial facilities in the ongoing currency swap in Kwara state. A source…
THE Chairman, Senate Public Affairs Committee, Matthew Urhoghide, has ordered the management of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to refund to the country treasury the sum of N356 million it spent without necessary approvals. The panel said the…
This year’s annual Armed Forces Remembrance Day may have come and gone, but interactions with the some ex-military personnel show that all is not well with the living heroes. They say even widows of the fallen heroes being celebrated are…
THE Centre for Democracy and Development has revealed that military leaders “stole” as much as $15billion (N6.1trn at N411 to a dollar) through fraudulent arms procurement deals in the last 20 years. The report affirmed that successive presidents’ failure to…
The 40th anniversary celebration of the Labour Writers Association of Nigeria (LAWAN) provided stakeholders the opportunity to assess the economy, proffer solutions and show the way forward. TOBA AGBOOLA reports The event called for celebration. Forty years in the life of an…
THE Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today October 11, 2021 secured the conviction and sentencing of one Yakubu .M. Abbas before Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court, Kaduna on one count amended charge…
THE Abuja Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested ten suspected internet fraudsters. The suspects: Victor Onyemachi, Okolo Abdulganiyu, Williams Ebenezer, Victor Ejike, Ojonugwa V. Adama, Ejeh Michael, Bala Ogecha Sadiq, Ejaigu Obokohwo, Azubike Joel and Ejaigu Tobore Donald were apprehended in the Kubwa…
JUSTICE Musa Mustapha of the State High Court sitting in Maiduguri, Borno State, has convicted and sentenced one Abdullahi Adamu to four years imprisonment for a N3, 000,000.00 (Three Million Naira) fraud. The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the EFCC arraigned…
FIVE oil thieves have been convicted and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment in separate judgment by the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. While Justice Phoebe M. Ayuba convicted and sentenced Peter Listen, Monday Nwibe to six months…
OPERATIVIES of the Uyo Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, on Wednesday, September 29, 2021 arrested 21 suspected internet Fraudsters a sting operation at World Bank Housing Estate, Umuahia, Abia state. The arrested suspects are: Onwuka…
