Tag Archives: Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos zonal office, has arrested 13 suspected Internet fraudsters, better known as `yahoo boys’, for conspiracy, possession of fraudulent documents and obtaining money under false pretense.

EFCC agents have searched all the apartments in Osborne Towers, the Ikoyi, Lagos building where $43.4million was found last Wednesday.

  The huge money in different currencies recovered from an apartment in Osborne Towers, Osborne Road, Ikoyi Lagos, Lagos State is not owned by Mrs. Esther Nnamdi-Ogbue, sacked officially today by the NNPC as the managing director of its retail business. Mr. Emeka Etiaba, the lawyer to Nnamdi-Ogbue, debunked in a statement on Thursday the news making the round associating …

The Senate has set Wednesday for the screening of the Ibrahim Magu as the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> A Federal High Court Lagos, on Wednesday fixed Feb. 13 to hear a suit by ex-first lady, Patience Jonathan against the EFCC seeking to unfreeze her account.

A Federal High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday set aside an earlier order of a Federal High Court in Lagos empowering the EFCC to freeze two accounts of Gov. Ayo Fayose in Zenith Bank.

< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, November 10, 2016 arraigned Femi Fani-Kayode, erstwhile Minister of Aviation, before Justice John T. Tsoho of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja on a 5-count charge bordering on money laundering to the tune of N26million.

  Contrary to press release issued by the spokesperson of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Wilson Uwujaren that Mr Abubakar Sidiq Usman who was harassed and picked up in his home on Monday morning by armed men from the agency has been released; we can report authoritatively that it is not true.

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has faulted the refusal of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to make public the statement it has extracted from the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki, in its ongoing probe of money meant for the purchase of arms and the funding of the last general elections in the country.

Desmond Nunugwo, a suspect under investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, passed away today June 10, 2016 few hours after he was taken into custody. His demise was confirmed at the hospital where he was rushed after he suddenly took ill.