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EFCC Boss Visits Ooni, Says Commission Given Free Rein
By Oluwakayode Banjo Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Ola Olukoyede says President Bola Tinubu has greatly shown immense political will in the fight against economic and financial crimes by not interfering in the works of the Commission. He stated this in Ile-Ife, Osun State while on a courtesy visit…
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Video: We never assaulted suspects in Ondo Club – EFCC
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has denied assaulting, brutalising, or subjecting to any dehumanising treatment of some suspects arrested last Saturday in Akure, Ondo State. A statement by the EFFC’s Head of Media & Publicity, Dele Oyewale, titled EFCC’s Akure Arrests: Setting the Records Straight, urged the public to discountenance a viral video…
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EFCC Nabs 7 Illegal Miners, 2 others for N1.2m Bribe
Officials of the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC have arrested seven suspects for illegal mining activities and seized five truckloads of minerals from the suspects. The Anti-graft agency disclosed this in a statement posted on X.com on Wednesday. The statement partly reads, “The arrest, which followed credible intelligence and…
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EFCC Mourns Former Chairman
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has condoled with the family of the agency’s third substantive Chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde, who died in Egypt on Sunday at 61. It was garthered that Lamorde died in Egypt where he had travelled for medical treatment. Reacting to the development, in a statement on Sunday, the spokesperson for…
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Anti-Graft War: Ooni Gives Kudos to EFCC Boss
By Oluwakayode Banjo Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi (Ojaja II) has commended the Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede on his efforts to rid the nation of economic and financial crimes and other acts of corruption. He gave the commendation in Ile-Ife, Osun State while receiving…
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Crusade against Dollarisation: EFCC Asks Embassies to Charge in Naira
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has read the Riot Act to foreign missions based in Nigeria, banning them from transacting in foreign currencies, and mandating the use of Naira in their financial businesses. The EFCC has also mandated Nigerian foreign missions domiciled abroad to accept Naira in their financial businesses. The move, the EFCC…
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Desist from Unauthorized Disclosure, EFCC Tells Banks
By Oluwakayode Banjo Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede has called on Compliance Officers of Banks across the country to desist from unauthorized disclosure of the commission’s investigation activities and request from banks to their customers. He made the call through the Acting Zonal Director of the Ibadan Zonal Command of…
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EFCC Nabs 64 Suspected Internet Fraudsters in Osun
By Oluwakayode Banjo Investigators of the Ibadan Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested sixty-four suspected internet fraudsters in Osun State. The Commission’s Head, Media and Publicity, Mr Dele Oyewale made this known in a statement. According to the statement, the suspected cybercriminals were arrested in Ede, Osun State following…
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Court Grants Ex-minister Sirika, Daughter, others ₦100m bail
A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail to former Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika; his daughter, and two others in the sum of ₦100 million with two sureties. Sirika and others are being tried over an alleged N2.7bn fraud. The sureties, according to the court, must have landed properties in Abuja and also…
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Six NSCDC Officers in EFCC Net over Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested six senior officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps over alleged N6bn fraud. The senior officers are currently being grilled by EFCC interrogators at the commission’s headquarters, Jabi, Abuja, The PUNCH can confirm. Though details of the probe are still sketchy, our correspondent gathered…
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Humanitarian Ministry Probe: EFCC Recovers Fresh $445,000, N3bn
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said on Sunday it has freshly recovered $445,000 and N3bn in the ongoing probe of the scandal in the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs. The EFCC spokesman, Dele Oyewale, said that the $445,000 and N3bn were recovered between March and April in addition to N30bn earlier recovered before March, which…
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Court Grants Emefiele N50m Bail
The Lagos State Special Offences Court has granted the embattled former Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele, bail of N50 million after being charged with a 26-count bordering on alleged abuse of office and irregular allocation of $4.5 billion and N2.8 billion respectively. Emefiele was admitted to bail with two sureties in like sum by…
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“Yes, I am guilty”, Bobrisky Admits Charge
Popular cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye, a.k.a. ‘Bobrisky’ on Friday pleaded guilty to a four-count charge of abuse of the naira and money laundering preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) at a Lagos court. Bobrisky arrived at the Federal High Court in Lagos around 11:50 a.m. for his arraignment on charges of…
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Bobrisky in EFCC Net
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested and detained controversial cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye aka Bobrisky, over abuse of naira, spraying of naira notes and currency mutilation. Bobrisky, who has been embroiled in several controversies over the past weeks, was arrested in Lagos on Wednesday night, and has since been detained at the Lagos…
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Court Sentences 15 for Internet Fraud
By Oluwakayode Banjo Justices Olusola Adetujoye, O.A. Lajide and S.O. Adeyemi of the Oyo State High Court, sitting in Ibadan have convicted and sentenced 15 internet fraudsters to various jail terms. This is contained in a statement by the Commission’s Head, Media & Publicity, Mr Dele Oyewale. The statement indicates that They were jailed after pleading guilty…
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CSOs Charged on Adherence to Regulations
By Oluwatoyin Adegoke Civil Society Organizations, CSOs, have been charged to adhere to regulations guiding their operations and protect themselves from being used as conduits for crimes, especially money laundering and terrorism financing. Some Executives of Regulatory Agencies gave the charge while addressing a gathering of Civil Society Organizations in Ogun State at a workshop…
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Heavy Presence of EFCC, ICPC, Security Operatives as Re-run Holds in Oyo
By Bashir Sulaiman There was heavy presence of security operatives during the re-run election held on Saturday, in two polling units of Saki West State Constituency of Oyo State House of Assembly. The affected polling units are Odo-osun 007 in Ogidigbo area and Ogbalanja polling unit 019 in Sepeteri/Bapon registration area. It was also observed…
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13 Ex-Govs under EFCC’s Radar over N772bn Fraud Cases
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has reopened money laundering cases against 13 former governors and some former ministers, with the amounts involved running into over N853.8bn. The amount at stake in the high-profile cases involving the former governors and ex-ministers was not less than N772.2bn, however, the anti-graft agency is currently investigating the N81.6bn…
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EFCC Presents N76.586 billion Budget Proposal to House of Reps
By Oluwakayode Banjo The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, December 5, 2023, presented a budget of N76.586billion (Seventy Six Billion, Five Hundred and Eighty-Six Million Naira) as its budget proposal for 2024 to the House of Representatives Committee on Financial Crimes. The proposed budget represents a 53.48% increase over and above the…
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EFCC Boss Seeks Anti-Corruption Crusade That Promotes Wealth Creation
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has pledged to refocus the anti-corruption war by adopting modalities capable of stimulating economic growth and development in the nation. The Chairman made the promise while addressing the staff of the Ilorin Zonal Command of the EFCC at the Commission’s Office, GRA,…
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EFCC Deploys Operatives to Bayelsa, Kogi, Imo to Check Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has deployed its operatives on election monitoring operations in Bayelsa, Kogi and Imo states. The Commission’s Head of Media and Publicity, Dele Oyewale, in a statement said the operations were aimed at checking electoral fraud and associated crimes. Oyewale stated, “In its drive to checkmate electoral fraud and associated…
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OAU VC Appeals to Victims of EFCC Raid
By Adenitan Akinola The Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Prof. Simeon Bamire, has appealed to students of the institution who were victims of the raid on some off-campus hostels along Ife/Ibadan Road by the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to put the experience behind them and move on. …
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EFCC Arrests 69 Suspected Internet Fraudsters in Osun
By Olaolu Fawole Operatives of the Ibadan Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested sixty-nine suspected internet fraudsters in Osun State. They were arrested on Wednesday, at Oduduwa Estate area of Ile-Ife, Osun State following actionable intelligence on their suspected involvement in fraudulent internet-related activities.According to a statement on the…
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EFCC Detains Emefiele after Release by DSS
Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, is currently being detained in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Emefiele, who is currently being interrogated at the National Headquarters of the anti-graft agency, Jabi, Abuja, was picked up by EFCC operatives Thursday night, less than an hour after he regained…
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DSS Detention : Bawa Heads to Court
The embattled former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa, has sued the Department of State Services, DSS, for his continued detention without trial since June 14, 2023. In the suit filed at the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court for the Enforcement of Fundamental Rights, brought by one Barrister…
