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A top investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on June 24, 2017 escaped death by the whiskers when gunmen opened fire on him in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has invited a former Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Mr. Abdulmumin Jibrin, to clarify allegations that the Speaker, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, and three other principal officers “padded” the 2016 budget in excess of N40bn.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday in an FCT High Court, Maitama, opened its case against Dr Fortune Fiberesima, former President Goodluck Jonathan’s chief physician.

Former Aviation Minister, Chief Fani-Kayode, has said that any attempt to cover up the owner of the sums of $43million, £27,800 pounds and N23 million recovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, from an apartment in the Ikoyi area of Lagos will fail.

Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to retract a press statement against Nicholas Ashinze, a former aide to Col Sambo Dasuki (retd.), before the trial can resume.

The Publisher of The Abuja Inquirer newspapers, Dan Akpovwa, has said that the libel suit instituted against the publication by Kingsley Kuku, the former Presidential Adviser on the Amnesty programme, is frivolous, and aimed at intimidating media.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, hereby reiterate that the on-going recruitment exercise into the Commission is line with due process and in conformity with federal character principle.

Justice U.N Agomoh of the Federal High Court, Port Harcourt, Rivers State has convicted and sentenced one Valentine  Madu to seven years imprisonment. The sentence is without an option of fine.

The trial of Abiodun Agbele, aide and confidant of Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, got underway Thursday in Abuja with the first prosecution witness, providing a blow by blow account of how the accused supervised the disbursement of a sum of N1, 219, 490,000 part of the N4.7billion that was transferred from the imprest account of the Office of the …

In furtherance of its avowed commitment to upholding the integrity of its officers, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, September 15, 2016 arrested one of its operatives, Uzodinma Kingsley Agbazue for offences bordering on criminal conspiracy and extortion.