The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Ibrahim Magu, has charged Nigerians to monitor closely delivery of constituency projects embarked upon by their representatives at the legislative arm of government. Mr Magu gave the advice in Ibadan while offering Continue Reading
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan Zonal Office on Friday, arrested 42 youngsters for alleged involvement in internet-related fraud. The suspects, whose ages range between 18 and 33 years, were apprehended at different locations in Ilaro, Ogun State, following actionable intelligence earlier received on their alleged illegal activities. The suspects Continue Reading
An Oyo State High Court has sentenced a former Deputy Registrar of the State Judiciary, Mutiat Adio to five years in prison for stealing. Our judiciary correspondent, Sunday Ogunyemi who was at the court reports that this is the second time the suspect would be sentenced to prison having been jailed for seven years in 2018 […]Continue Reading
A mini coffin suspected to contain fetish materials was found with a 38-year-old suspected internet fraudster, Azeez Adebowale, when operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, raided his house in Ibadan on Monday, March 2, 2020. Adebowale, who claimed to be using the coffin as soap rack, was among the six persons arrested […]Continue Reading
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan Zonal Office, has arrested three persons – Babatunde Ologunja, Olusola Olaoye Babatunde and Olufemi Lawal – for allegedly duping the Otun-Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Lekan Balogun. The suspects and others still at large were accused of conspiring to dispossess the revered Ibadan High Chief of sums running Continue Reading
Members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, in Delta State numbering over one thousand have stormed strategic streets in Asaba, as part of a nationwide campaign against corruption organized by the NYSC in collaboration with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Oghenero Eghweree who witnessed the event for Radio Nigeria, reports that the […]Continue Reading
The Ibadan Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has joined other zonal offices of the commission across the nation to engage Nigerian youths in its campaign against corruption. Our staff reporter reports that a walk against corruption, involving over five hundred members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC and staffers […]Continue Reading
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan zonal office has arraigned one Ebenezer Tobiloba Okunlola on a three-count charge bordering on false pretence, impersonation, possession of scam documents and obtaining money by false pretense. Okunlola, who claimed to be a 300 level student of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), was arraigned before Continue Reading
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, says it will shift its operation to counter vote-buying. The EFCC chairman, Mr. Ibrahim Magu stated this in Ibadan while speaking with newsmen. Mr. Magu said the commission would face vote-buying to ensure that the menace was curbed in the country. EFCC boss explained that nobody was expected […]Continue Reading
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan Zonal Office, on Monday, October 7, 2019, arrested 17 suspected internet fraudsters among whom were five who claimed to be students of the Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti. The suspects were arrested in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti state capital, following meticulous consideration of intelligence reports detailing their Continue Reading
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has declared a former staff of a commercial Bank, Mayowa Onabanjo wanted for his involvement in the over twelve-billion-Naira scam at the Ibadan Branch of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. A statement from Director of Public Affairs, EFCC Ibadan Zone Mr. Jide Jegede says the suspect who had […]Continue Reading
Justice Patricia Ajoku of the Federal High Court 1 sitting Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, has ordered that one Onifade Gideon Idowu be remanded in prison pending when a case of alleged fraud filed against him is decided. The accused was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan zonal office, on Wednesday, […]Continue Reading
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan Zonal Office, has arrested one Kehinde Olumide Agbabiaka, a sales agent of Fidelity Bank Plc. His arrest was sequel to a petition jointly signed by the bank’s Regional Security Officer and the Cluster Control and Compliance Manager, in which it was alleged that the suspect suppressed, diverted […]Continue Reading