Tag Archives: EFCC

Justice S.S Ogunsanya of the Lagos High Court today sentenced Paul Onwughalu, a former Head of Operations, Union Bank Plc, Head Office, Marina, Lagos to three years imprisonment. Onwughalu was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC , Lagos Zonal office on February 24 on a four-count charge bordering on failure to conduct due diligence in financial transactions. …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Lagos Zonal office yesterday, arraigned one Chimezie Chuta before Justice Mojisola Dada of the State High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos. The former employee in the publishing unit of Dominion Book Stores, an online bookstore belonging to The Living Faith Church Worldwide, was charged on one-count bordering on stealing to the tune of …

Lagos socialite and Director General of Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation, NTDC and his wife, Aisha Rimi, are at the centre of a major scandal involving the diversion of the sum of N3 Billion from an account of Lagos state government.

EFCC has seized five houses from a contractor Prof. Adenekan Iyiola Adesanya for allegedly diverting about N8billion out of over N20billion spent by the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) for the supply of textbooks, science and technical equipment to schools.

It has come to the knowledge of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC that some unscrupulous individuals parading themselves as operatives of the Commission have been harassing some prominent persons in the country on the pretext of purportedly executing Search Warrants on behalf of the Commission.

The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, Tuesday accused anti-graft agencies of looting funds and property recovered from corrupt persons and said this untoward act was the major reason why foreign countries harbouring monies stolen from Nigeria had refused to return them to the country.

The whistle-blower that gave information leading to the recovery of N13bn from Flat 7B Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos, has denied having been paid five per cent of the recovered sum.

The Kano Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has recovered a total sum of N328,988,296,990.62 from nine major oil marketers across the country.  

Eighteen senators are under investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for alleged N367.5billion fraud, it was learnt yesterday.

Barrister Ndubisi Chuks Nwasike, Lawyer to a retired staff of Shell Petroleum, Engineer Obi Timothy Nwasike has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of unlawful arrest and detention of his client despite his failing health condition.