The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ilorin Zonal Command on Monday, October 24, 2022 arraigned four persons for alleged bribery of voters to ensure the return of the incumbent governor of Osun State, Mr. Adegboyega Oyetola for a second term in office during the governorship election held in the State on July 16, 2022….
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, has discharged and acquitted Former minister of Interior, Senator Abba Moro in respect of the fraud charges arising from the conduct of the botched Nigerian Immigration Service recruitment in 2014. The judge, Justice Nnamdi Dimgba, who had, in 2020 quashed seven out of the eleven count charge against…
Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal has denied the alleged diversion of N189 billion by the State Government. The governor, who in a press statement by his spokesman, Muhammad Bello, alleged that the media report is an orchestrated effort by his political traduces to taint his reputation. The signed statement by Bello on Friday read:…
Governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, was placed on a watchlist by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for allegedly mismanaging over N17 billion Paris Club refund and security vote, investigations by Saturday PUNCH have revealed. Our correspondent gathered that the governor who is presently out of the country had been under investigation for carrying out various…
Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance, budget and national planning, says the government can no longer sustain petrol subsidy payments which currently stand at about N250 billion monthly. Briefing state house correspondents after the federal executive council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, Ahmed said the payments were no longer sustainable. The…
Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode is right now being interrogated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Lagos. The Former minister has in the last 5 hours been answering questions about his involvement in the forgery and alterations of documents in Lagos.A source in the EFCC office in Lagos told EFCC that the…
The arraignment of former Aviation Minster, Stella Oduah, on Monday, suffered setback in a Federal High Court, Abuja over a letter from the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) calling for the case review. Recall that Justice Inyang Ekwo had, on Oct. 20, fixed today for the arraignment of Oduah over allegations bordering on…
Kingsley Fanwo, Kogi commissioner for information, has alleged that some governors with interest in the 2023 presidency hired the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to discredit Yahaya Bello, the state governor. Over the past months, the anti-graft agency and the Kogi government have been at loggerheads over allegations that the state runs an account…
Abdulrasheed Bawa, chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), says there was no diamond bra recovered from Diezani Alison-Madueke, former petroleum minister. Diezani, who had fled the county shortly before former President Goodluck Jonathan handed over to President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015, is alleged to have stolen $2.5 billion from the federal government…
